The Madison Park Technical Vocational High School girls volleyball team powered its way over East Boston at Friday’s City Championships in the Boston Latin Academy gym, topping off a 17-0 regular season and earning a high seed in this week’s Division 5 state tournament. Madison Park will kick off their state tournament season as the number two overall seed.
A labor dispute involving defense attorneys that has crippled the adjudication of many criminal cases across Massachusetts this year continues to impact Dorchester in a disproportionate way, with one local prosecutor calling it a “great public safety threat.”
A state agency has sold a 10-acre parcel of land on the former Mattapan State Hospital property to a development team that plans to build 287 new housing units— the large majority deemed affordable— on the site, known as Olmsted Village. Construction is expected to begin early next year.
Wide-eyed and star-struck, dozens of city kids from the Red Sox Foundation’s Nike RBI League baseball and softball program took their positions at friendly Fenway Park on Sept. 18 for a season-ending showcase sponsored by Fanatics.
Agents of chaos descended en masse on the South End, West Roxbury, and Randolph communities last weekend and prompted an uproar after a Boston Police cruiser was destroyed when it was set ablaze by fireworks.
A rowing club on the Neponset River that was once open only to teens from Milton High School is looking for new crew members from Boston’s neighborhoods to join in its fun, adventure, and fitness activities.
Boston’s interim Parks Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse was a guest at the Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association (CSHCA) meeting on Monday night to discuss planned improvements to one Savin Hill park and to discuss safety concerns at another site.
Walsh Park re-opened last Friday morning to great fanfare after a $4 million facelift that boasts well-lighted walking paths, a championship-level softball field, refurbished basketball courts, a splash pad, and even a tennis court that supports a new sport for the city-owned playground: pickle ball.
Lanterns and lions – and a few thousand people – celebrated on Town Field last Saturday for the annual Mid-Autumn Festival – a traditional Vietnamese event marking the harvest, performances, family, and the full moon.
Boston’s interim Parks Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse was a guest at the Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association meeting to discuss planned improvements to one Savin Hill park and to discuss safety concerns at another site.
A celebrity chef’s re-branding concept for Savin Bar + Kitchen – which features prominently displayed photos of notorious Boston mobsters, including the late James “Whitey” Bulger and a sidekick hitman – is causing a stir in Savin Hill, where civic leaders on Monday voted to petition the business to remove the images.
The Strand Theatre on Columbia Road has hosted any number of shows over the decades from operas and rap icons to blues artists, fashion shows, and vaudeville acts. But lately, it has become a popular destination for Korean Pop groups—also known as K-Pop or the Hallyu Wave— as they make tour stops on their way across America.
When Jordy’s Men’s Store in Codman Square shut down operations about a month ago, the move marked the end of a family legacy that stretched back over several generations of a Jewish-American family led by the late Morris Silverstein.
The senior advisor to Mayor Wu who has been overseeing high priority construction projects at White Stadium and Long Island has left City Hall for a new job as deputy chief of special projects at the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.
There’s no shortage of foot traffic in Codman Square’s business district, but destinations have dwindled for shoppers as commercial vacancies have accelerated at a pace that has community stakeholders concerned.
