




Allan and Joycelyn Edwards spoke to the celebrants at the event on Sept. 20.
Police say the armed suspect drove at officers and struck a cruiser while trying to flee a traffic stop last evening.

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved plans by Frank Delaney and Teresa Murphy to replace the short-lived Scobie’s, 782 Adams St. in Dorchester, with the Session House, which will feature Irish pub grub accompanied by Irish seisiún music – much of it by local musicians.
Police say the armed suspect drove at officers and struck a cruiser while trying to flee a traffic stop last evening.

It’s been a particularly tough week on the Red Line. T officials say old cars and freezing temps are to blame.

Jean Appolon Expressions, the Haitian folkloric and contemporary dance organization, celebrated the grand opening of its new dance center in Roxbury’s Nubian Square on Tuesday, Jan. 27.

Members of the Legislature’s Black and Latino Legislative Caucus unveiled legislation this week aimed at boosting protections for immigrant communities in Massachusetts amid federal disruptions nationwide.

A group of young adults – all with intellectual disabilities – train for the Special Olympics at a Dorchester gym led by InnerCity Weightlifting (ICW), a non-profit that helps formerly imprisoned men and women.

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.

Union members, activists, and elected officials gathered in the parking lot of the South Bay shopping center last Friday (Jan. 23) to demonstrate in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis and St. Paul, who were holding a citywide strike that day to protest the violent immigration crackdown there by federal agents.

American Ancestors will host a Boston book launch for genealogist André Kearns’s new book, Finding Cornerstone Stories: Uncovering Inspiration in Your Family’s History, on Friday, Oct. 16, from 5 to 6 p.m. at 97 Newbury St. in Boston.
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