The city’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) has issued a “stop work” order on a construction project to convert a former storefront church on Nelson Street in Dorchester into retail space.
Mattapan’s George Boakye-Yiadom was a professional basketball player in Finland until a heart condition forced him out of the game, and nearly took his life. Now, four years after a heart transplant, he is finally feeling “normal” again and advocating for all residents to become organ donors. Seth Daniel photo
A new $75 million facility in Nubian Square has Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology headed into its next 100 years on solid footing.
A member of the Cape Verdean government visited Greater Boston last week to do a “check-in” on the diaspora from the African island nation to see what assistance they need during a time of uncertainty with immigration policy in the US.
A room filled with elected officials, activists, union officials and residents vented about the slow pace of reform measures within the Boston Police Department (BPD) during a forum held last Saturday afternoon in Dorchester.
Nearly 100 volunteers gathered in Dorchester this morning to fill backpacks with toiletries, thermal clothing, snacks, and other essentials to be handed out to homeless persons throughout Boston.
The Polish American Citizens Club on Boston Street in Dorchester held a ceremony last week to welcome new board members and swear-in their board of directors and officers.
A developer intends to raze the Little House building on East Cottage Street and replace it with a six-story building that would house a 42-unit “extended-stay” hotel.
A Boston Public Schools proposal would move the Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA) from Maxwell Street on Codman Hill to the former Grover Cleveland Middle School in Fields Corner, creating a new and expanded multi-lingual learning hub for high school students citywide.
Seth Daniel wonders: Where have all the stray cats gone in our neighborhood?
“We wanted to make sure this wasn’t just about a fancy swearing-in ceremony downtown,” the mayor said.
One of the city’s best artists, according to the judges at the Boston Music Awards, is Dorchester’s own Echezona Onwuama, a 25-year-old from Four Corners who fuses a raw talent for hip-hop wordplay with his Nigerian roots and church choir background to curate sound that is starting to turn heads nationally.
Boston’s schools superintendent, bracing for a continued decline in enrollment in the new year, warned the School Committee last month that the further loss in student numbers will impact the district’s budget as well.
The Boston School Committee met via Zoom on Monday evening (Jan. 5) for its annual organizational meeting where it set a calendar and chose officers for the coming year.
District 4 City Councillor Brian Worrell is the favorite to win the votes needed to be the next president of the Boston City Council, according to sources familiar with the vote.
