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Thursday (5th)
Hear from both sides in the debate over the Boston 2024 Olympics proposal and what it could mean for Dorchester’s 
Franklin Park. The forum, sponsored by the Franklin Park Coalition, ... Read more.

Representatives behind a proposal to expand the South Bay Mall to include new housing, retail, and a movie theater are making the rounds at a series of community meetings in Dorchester. On Monday evening, they spoke to ... Read more.

Public schools in the city of Boston will enter a “new era” with the selection of Dr. Tommy Chang as their new superintendent, school committee members said Tuesday night in voting, 5-2, to approve his selection.

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In the latest mark of a winter of discontent, a partial roof collapse at the vacant former Bayside Expo Center on Wednesday morning ruptured a gas line, prompting the evacuation of a neighboring building on Mount Vernon ... Read more.

Winter storms that have disrupted travel patterns for MBTA riders should cost the transit authority $36.5 million in lost revenues and additional costs this year, MBTA Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Davis told ... Read more.

The Boston Public Schools will partner with the Gavin Foundation and UMass Boston to run a new school-based drug prevention program that will be piloted at Dorchester’s own McCormack Middle School.
The program— Too ... Read more.

Despite snow-clogged thoroughfares, the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade will still be held on Sunday, March 15, according to officials close to the decision.

"One thing wanted to agree on, we want a parade ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports the Members Plus Credit Union at 494 Gallivan Blvd. was robbed around 12:50 p.m. on Thursday by a man who gave a hand-written note demanding money.

The man, about 5'8" and ... Read more.

Thursday (26th)
JFK Library Forum series present Mark Shriver, son of Sargent Shriver; Princeton Professor Julian Zelizer, author of the recently published The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson ... Read more.

As reported last week in The Reporter, parking is now at a premium at one of the neighborhood’s busiest shopping destinations. The Star Market ... Read more.

For the elected officials representing the families in Boston Public Schools, the new district superintendent will need a litany of skills to take on a mountain of challenges in the country’s oldest school district. ... Read more.

A proponent of the voluntary program aimed at increasing diversity and giving students school choice options called on her fellow advocates Tuesday to “get angry” about cuts in state funding.

The Metropolitan ... Read more.

Speaker Robert DeLeo on Wednesday heaped praise on Rep. Evandro Carvalho, who is starting his first full two-year term, calling the Dorchester Democrat a "rising star."

"He's going to be a rising star in this ... Read more.

After two public meetings held this week to consider the contours and costs of Boston‘s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics Games, two themes have emerged: Anxious citizens are looking for hard facts about the effect of the ... Read more.

A bill filed in the Legislature last month would create a seven-member commission charged with ensuring that Boston’s bid process to become the 2024 Summer Olympics host city “be transparent and accountable to the people ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh and top officials from Boston 2024 met with business owners from New Boston Food Market on two occasions over the last week to soothe fears over the businesses’ future and clear a path forward for a ... Read more.

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