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A former toddler teacher, Abbie Wanamaker began writing children’s books after being inspired by a child in her classroom. Wanamaker, 37, has just finished her second book, Jack & Olive, and has launched a Kickstarter ... Read more.

The annual Mary Ann Brett Food Pantry St. Patrick’s Day breakfast brought some of Boston’s and the commonwealth’s top political talent to Dorchester’s Blessed Mother Teresa Parish Saturday.

The main event of the ... Read more.

South Boston native Maureen Dahill, a Democrat and small business owner running for the First Suffolk Senate District, offered her take on her neighborhood’s St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, giving the annual political roast ... Read more.

Amid the back-and-forth on the main stage at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, as the Sunday morning program inched through its ten segments, District 2 City Councillor Bill Linehan, this year’s host of the St ... Read more.

In a 6 to 1 vote last Wednesday night, the Boston School Committee signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the school system’s assignment process. The 57,000 students now attending the city’s schools, along with their ... Read more.

March 13 – I am in Rome with 18 friends. 13 of us went to Saint Gregory’s High together. We have just witnessed one of the most exciting days of our lives!! We were there for it all and proud to be among those who ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino was on hand for this morning's official dedication of the William J. Walczak Health and Education Center—which ... Read more.

The state gas tax checked in as the least popular source of new revenue to fund Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan to invest in transportation and education, according to a new poll commissioned by the Campaign for Our Communities ... Read more.

In roughly 90 minutes Saturday night, four men were stabbed in incidents in Ashmont and on Columbia Road.

The homicide unit was summoned to Columbia Road shortly before 11 p.m., after two men were stabbed in a ... Read more.

In a 6 to 1 vote, the School Committee on Wednesday night signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the Boston school system’s assignment process. Current students in the system of 57,000, along with their siblings, are ... Read more.

MBTA Police say the woman pictured above is wanted after she spat on a bus driver who asked her to pay her fare on Saturday afternoon. The incident happened at Ashmont Station where the driver "ejected" the passenger for ... Read more.

Local lawmakers and members of Mayor Thomas Menino’s cabinet flocked to the Cedars of Lebanon’s hall in Jamaica Plain for a fundraiser last Sunday morning. More than 400 people attended the small-dollar event, one of ... Read more.

Expressions of support and a candidates’ gathering in South Boston helped fill the First Suffolk District state Senate campaign calendar over the last week.

A group of elected officials from Boston signaled support ... Read more.

City Councillor Charles Yancey could face a challenger from Roslindale this year if he runs for reelection in District 4. Steven Godfrey, the 43-year-old executive director of the Community Minority Cultural Center in ... Read more.

On the night of March 4, 1776, the Patriot officers gave the order to 2,000 or so men: no one was to speak above a whisper. As American batteries opened up on British positions in and around Boston to cloak the long file ... Read more.

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