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Four Dorchester residents were honored for their public service at the 31st Annual Henry L. Shattuck Awards on Tues., Sept. 27. The awards are administered by the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, are given out annually ... Read more.

The Irish Pastoral Centre will honor Mary Walsh at its annual fundraising banquet on Sat., Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Florian Hall in Dorchester. The event will include live music and dancing with a performance by the group ... Read more.

Cataloguing land documents has taken precedent in time and manpower during the city’s urban renewal extension reassessment, Boston Planning and Development Agency officials told the city council at the first of its ... Read more.

Anh Nguyen, the new director of the Bowdoin-Geneva Main Street organization, is accustomed to working in communities where poverty and disinvestment have become systemic problems. Prior to taking the Dorchester posting in ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to punish Pho So 1, 223 Adams St., for repeatedly staying open past its 10 p.m. closing time.

The board today heard details of police citations for incidents on ... Read more.

Wanted man

Police are looking for a guy who pointed what looked like a gun at two tellers at the Members Plus Credit Union on Gallivan Boulevard on Tuesday as he demanded money.

After getting an unspecified amount of money, ... Read more.

Michael Walsh, 80, was arraigned Wednesday on charges he raped and indecently attacked a Dorchester boy more than two decades ago, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

In the 1980s and early 1990s ... Read more.

A discussion about the cultural identity of the Irish in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916 and about current events in the country at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate in Dorchester on Tuesday night ( ... Read more.

Boston has so many special arts events that it’s sometimes hard to keep them all straight. But this weekend the folks at the Franklin Park Coalition will co-sponsor for the second year a one-afternoon Art Grove as part of ... Read more.

A Boston police officer shot in the face by a suspect last year and the colleagues said to have saved his life by rushing to his aid, returning fire, and killing the gunman received the state’s highest award for policing ... Read more.

Carney Hospital will benefit from a major infusion of capital set to flow into the Steward Health Care System, which on Tuesday announced the terms of a new equity partnership with publicly traded behemoth Medical ... Read more.

High-profile ballot questions that would authorize additional charter schools and legalize the adult use of marijuana have similar levels of "strong support" among likely Massachusetts voters but are backed by "somewhat ... Read more.

A proposal to build a housing complex at 123 Hamilton St. for formerly homeless people run by the Pine Street Inn came under scrutiny from neighbors at a city-led meeting on Tuesday night. The plan would raze a long- ... Read more.

Conceptual plans for the frequently flooded and gridlocked Morrissey Boulevard were opened for public viewing and input at a state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) meeting Tuesday night in Neponset.

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Erik Wm. Suter returns to the Parish of All Saints on Sunday, Oct. 2 to perform a free concert on the C. B. Fisk and Skinner organs of All Saints. Mr. Suter will perform the organ music of Maurice Duruflé, in ... Read more.

Addressing a business breakfast crowd Tuesday morning, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh celebrated the success of his city's economy, but concluded that benefits are not reaching enough Bostonians and vowed to tackle racial and ... Read more.

Boston Latin School's interim head master on Tuesday attributed the school's downgrade this year to a "technicality," but state Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester said the 95 percent ... Read more.

A group of leaders that includes civil rights champion and former mayoral candidate Mel King issued a tough rebuke of Mayor Marty Walsh and his administration’s re-boot of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in a ... Read more.

You don’t have the BRA to kick around any more.

Starting today, if you are so inclined, you’ll have to get used to a longer, slightly wonkier acronym as your city government nemesis: the BPDA, which stands for ... Read more.

U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch on Monday reaffirmed his hearty support for a ballot measure that would raise the statewide cap on charter schools. After a tour of the Boston Collegiate Charter School on Mayhew Street, ... Read more.

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