




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.

Mindy Wright, a former history teacher at Boston Preparatory Charter Public School, founded the Upward Project in 2018 as a way to help first-generation, underprivileged college students “navigate a very unfamiliar space,” she said.

The Dot Tavern, a popular gathering spot for young adults since re-opening under new ownership in 2023 after a seven year hiatus, turned off it taps and locked its doors for the last time on Wednesday night (Feb. 18).

South End leaders proposed Wednesday a tougher, tightly coordinated plan to confront open drug use and homelessness at Boston’s long-troubled Mass. and Cass intersection.

Hundreds of UMass Boston students on were displaced after a 10th-floor pipe burst in the East Residence Hall on Monday, Feb. 9.

The new film “She Dared to Dream: Ayanna Pressley,” was screened at an event in Washington last Wednesday night (Feb. 11) as part of the DC Independent Film Festival .

More that 6,000 people attended this year’s Tết in Boston celebration, held last Sunday in the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

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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