Frothy, occasionally bitter, and ever-percolating. Relations between local civic groups and would-be developers? Maybe, but more immediately in Adams Corner, those words could describe the future wares of what is now a Sovereign Bank. Looking to exert community influence over
It ain’t a bad hall, not bad in the least bit. Not that their usual joint is anything to shake a decrescendo at, but as out-of-town places go, this one’s pretty good. When the All Saints Choir of Men and
Legislation essential to the progression of the Ashmont Station renovation and two other local MBTA projects is wending its way through Beacon Hill pitfalls, subject to political machinations and budgetary peccadilloes. Speaker Thomas M. Finneran said the $1.3 billion transportation
It was, after all, a wedding. There were fumbling last-minute instructions about how to use the camcorder, some confusion about who had the rings, and wet eyes dripping onto the carpet. And when the newly-married couple strode out of the
Unveiling eight still-evolving models for a new Boston Public Schools student assignment plan, a community task force met with questions and confusion at a South End meeting Tuesday night. The meeting, first in a citywide series of 16 that will
While two suspects in the beating of a city inspector continued to elude Boston Police, Dorchester’s Irish community cast a dragnet of its own this week, searching for answers in what many residents have read as a crackdown on immigrant
A community organization wired to prominent neighborhood-based institutions likely will expire quietly this week, a victim of funding shortfalls and internal disagreement. The Columbia Point Community Partnership was scheduled to be dissolved at a special meeting of its board of
An alleged Adams Corner carjacking led to a wild chase Monday night, with Boston police pursuing and shooting a suspect before apprehending him at the corner of Savin Hill Avenue and Dorchester Avenue. Police say Michael Gavin, a 22-year-old Quincy
The new behemoth along the Boulevard has met with hearty welcomes and grumpy bah-humbugs, leaving both the commercial fraternity and prospective shoppers unsure just what to think about the suddenly-crowded parking lot out front of National Wholesale Liquidators. The home
The battle lines were drawn early, and Felix Arroyo could see them and read them. Hours after he was sworn in as the first Latino city councillor in Boston’s history, he voted for Maura Hennigan for the council presidency. Later,
The dives are everywhere. City ordinance demands they can’t be smoke-filled anymore, and the FBI would have you believe that all the hoods and wiseguys are gone, but the rest of the markings are there. The kind of place where
In California, folks can’t make up their mind whether they want to vote or not. At issue – along with child actors, bodybuilders, and adult film stars – is whether or not all the state’s voters are voting under the
Alleging unfair business practices they say could prove ruinous for New England’s largest convention, exhibition, and hotel complex, Bayside Expo owners are going public with complaints that the still-in-construction Boston Convention and Exposition Center (BCEC) is stealing clients. While BCEC
In the pantheon of “I came among you and you took me in” moments, it wasn’t quite on a par with “Ich bin ein Berliner,” President John F. Kennedy’s words of camaraderie to a receptive West Berlin crowd in 1963.
“All you gotta do out here is care! Just care!” Mark Hall throws his big arms up and he looks like someone whose words should be heeded. But Hall is the “good cop,” not the one feared by campers and
