




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.

More than 100 community members gathered last Thursday night (Feb. 27) for a “listening session” with state officials about potential uses for the soon-to-be-vacant Lemuel Shattuck Hospital property next to Franklin Park.

OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center’s comprehensive look at Black history in the multi-faceted production “Our Story” wa staged at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre last week.
The work – part dance, spoken word, and music – was performed twice at The Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner last Friday (Feb. 27), the final day of Black History Month.

Three Boston city councillors last week filed formal requests for information from the Boston Police Department about its collaboration and information sharing with federal law enforcement.

Dorchester’s Carolyn Saxon will take the stage this month in the Concord-based Umbrella Stage Company’s production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Elected officials who represent Bostonians in Washington roundly condemned the launch of the US-Israeli attack on Iran last weekend.

The long-delayed second phase of the Dot Block development – an all-affordable 84-unit apartment building that will rise five stories above Hancock Street– has received key state subsidies that should clear a path for construction to start this year.

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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