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October 23, 2026
Red Line to speed up on North Quincy-JFK stretch
October 23, 2026
The meeting, scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m., will include a presentation by the development team followed by questions and comments from the public.
Members of the West of Washington (WOW) neighborhood association gathered with city officials last Saturday (Sept. 19) to break ground on a new public park, marking the culmination of a community-led effort that began a decade ago.
Joan Elaine Tighe died peacefully on Sunday, August 9th, 2026 at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale, MA. Joan was born in New York City to the late Charles Tighe and Natalie (Newbery) Tighe. Joan attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls school in Manhattan, attained a bachelor’s degree at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and two masters degrees, one in Theology and Social Change at Goddard Cambridge Graduate School and the other at Boston University School of Social Work. She was a member and leader at Church of the Covenant in Boston since 1973. After college, Joan lived in Boston’s South End before moving to her home in Dorchester.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a three-story, ten-unit rear addition to an existing Second Empire-style building at 24 Mt. Everett St. in Dorchester with 16 parking spaces that neighbors railed against when it was first proposed as a four-story, 16-unit addition with no parking a couple years ago.
Dorchester native Arlene Baldwin hosted an event last Saturday (Sept. 19) at City Hall where Black women talked about their experiences with alopecia, hair loss, and wigs.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday unanimously approved a developer’s plans to build a five-story, 24-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot filled with trees and ledge between the Cedar Grove Cemetery and Granite Avenue.
If police criminalists had found three gunshot residue particles on Keith Williams after Dawnn Jaffier crumpled to the street, a fatal gunshot wound to her head during the 2014 J’Ouvert parade, that would have been enough for prosecutors to use during Williams’s murder trial. But the expert found just two, prosecutors failed to explain to the jury why that was still enough proof of Williams’s guilt and so Williams deserves a new trial, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday.
For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 ordinance requiring them to do so.
The governor blamed President Donald Trump for rising gas prices, citing the U.S. war with Iran.
On Monday afternoon this week (Sept. 21), the Dorchester Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee and members of the UMass Boston facilities team observed the 40th anniversary of its installation on a plot of waterfront land owned by UMass Boston along Morrissey Boulevard.
English High School alumni will gather at Dorchester’s Florian Hall next month for an all-class reunion that will offer a special tribute to two graduates who served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen.
A proposal to build 20 new condos at 2062 Dorchester Ave. won approval from the Boston Planning Department board on Sept. 17.
Mayor Michelle Wu and other city officials discussed their latest approach to managing traffic and parking in and around Franklin Park and White Stadium at a public meeting in Roxbury on Tuesday evening.
The “Light Bearer” award was presented at a recent event to support the Maura Wilkins Foundation.