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Leaders in Boston’s faith community are calling for area businesses to stop selling imitation guns and for parents to stop purchasing imitation guns for their children.

“We made the call so that we can hopefully ... Read more.

An automated phone poll of Massachusetts voters by a Florida firm found support for the complete elimination of the Pacheco law, which both branches of the Legislature suspended in part in the state budget delivered ... Read more.

The firehouse on Parish Street on Meetinghouse Hill, home to the Boston Fire Department’s Engine 17, will get a $13 million overhaul, thanks to the new city budget that was approved last month by Mayor Martin Walsh and ... Read more.

Saturday (11th) – Fair Verona Festival, a free community arts day, at Blue Hill Club, Harambee Park, Talbot Avenue, Dorchester from 4-8 p.m. Includes workshops and performances by artists in dance, music ... Read more.

57 Fairmount St. after fire

A two-alarm fire reported around 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday at 57 Fairmount St. displaced three residents and did an estimated $150,000 damage, the Boston Fire Department reports.

The cause of the fire, which ... Read more.

Residents on Port Norfolk have begun conversations about a potential residential development at the Russo Marine site next to Venezia Restaurant. The 206-unit development, proposed by Venezia Restaurant’s owner Ralph ... Read more.

Saturday (4th) – Independence Day in the United States of America.

Monday (6th) – The Pope’s Hill Neighborhood Association present annual Free Theater Arts program for children at ... Read more.

Warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis, Haitian and Dominican community leaders joined forces with immigration advocates yesterday on the steps of the State House to denounce large-scale deportations of Dominicans of ... Read more.

Gov. Charlie Baker back in March articulated a clear preference and rationale for a November 2016 vote on an Olympics ballot question, but now says he does not have a firm opinion on when the vote should occur.

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City Hall is rolling out a new web and mobile app that will help Bostonians figure out when to put out their trash barrels and recycling containers. The aptly-named app— Trash Day—gives easy access to collection schedules ... Read more.

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