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.
DESE Commissioner Pedro Martinez (shown here) says state officials are rethinking so-called “takeovers” of local school districts.
Volunteers from Dorchester are gathering signatures at grocery stores, MBTA stops, and community centers in an effort to get a rent-control measure on the 2026 Massachusetts ballot that, if approved, would limit rent increases for most residential units to five percent a year, or the annual rise in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.
A federal appeals court has upheld the forced-labor conviction and 8 1/2-year prison sentence meted out to Stavros Papantoniadis, who used coercion and sometimes physical attacks to keep his undocumented-immigrant workers in line at his pizza shops in Roslindale, Dorchester and Norwood.
The Pearl, one of Boston’s most celebrated Black-owned restaurants, is closing its Dorchester location.
Construction is expected to start this spring and continue into 2028 on repairing a heavily traveled section of Interstate 93 in Dorchester.
Gilbert O’Neil and Uyen Le, who met on a dating app and enjoyed a whirlwind romance over the last year, officially became an engaged couple earlier this month on the rocky hilltop of Dorchester’s Savin Hill Park.
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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