




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.

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.

In the showdown over local property taxes, the Senate on Thursday advanced a relief bill and delivered a formal rebuke to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s tax shift plan.

State senators plan to vote Thursday on whether to allow cities and towns to offer credits and rebates during so-called property tax shock years.

The Boston Police Department escorted 50 new officers into its ranks last Friday (Jan. 9) with a swearing-in ceremony held at Dorchester’s IBEW Freeport Hall.

A Boston man serving a life sentence for murdering his girlfriend in Weymouth in 2017 was charged today with murdering another woman in 1999 in her apartment at 467 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office reports.

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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