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The Martin Richard Charitable Foundation has hired a 26-year-old Boston native to serves as its first executive director. Kijana Rose, a Roslindale resident who is originally from Dorchester, began her duties on Jan. 23. ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports Brianna Hardy, 22, of Jamaica Plain, was shot at 24 Juliette St. around 5:50 p.m. on Sunday. She died after being rushed to a local hospital.
A second person was ... Read more.
Massachusetts lawmakers steamrolled Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of pay raise legislation Thursday, delivering big salary increases for themselves, six statewide constitutional officers, and scores of judges.
... Read more.The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday expressed its opposition to President Donald Trump's order on immigration and refugee policy by passing a resolution calling on Trump to rescind the order that "presents serious ... Read more.
A chaotic first week and a half under President Donald Trump spurred mass protests across the country in support of immigrants after the president took aim at so-called “sanctuary” cities and instituted a temporary ban on ... Read more.
Dorchester congregations are joining clergy across the region in denouncing the Trump administration’s edicts targeting Muslim immigrants and vowing to keep their churches open for those in jeopardy.
The president ... Read more.
Neighbors can get their first in-depth look at plans for a new four-story, mixed use development planned for 191-195 Bowdoin St. at a public meeting set for Thursday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m. The building proposed by the ... Read more.
Druid Theatre Company — founded in Galway in 1975 by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen, and the late Mick Lally — stands not only as one of the world’s most respected arts organizations, but also at the forefront of the ... Read more.
Charlotte Golar Richie’s term on the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination ends next week. Commissioner Richie, a resident of Meetinghouse Hill in Dorchester, completes her two-and-a-half posting on Feb. 10. ... Read more.
City officials are asking for an additional $40 million in the Boston Public Schools budget for next year, largely to target early education and dual-language programs, bolster resources for homeless students, and extend ... Read more.
Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III visited Dorchester’s Codman Square Health Center last Thursday as part of a two-day tour of community health centers across Massachusetts meant to highlight the programs and people that ... Read more.
Dorchester’s Danny Luker, 66, will return to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota this week to continue his support for that community as it fights to prevent a controversial oil pipeline under the ... Read more.
For many Boston residents, the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA), based on Dorchester Avenue, has long been a springboard to the American dream of home ownership. The non-profit agency offers intensive ... Read more.
Bill Kemeza, the president of Boston College High School, who was set to retire at the end of this academic year, will instead stay on in the leadership role for an additional year, according to the school’s board ... Read more.
A comprehensive planning study in Glover’s Corner launched last week, kicking off a Boston Planning and Redevelopment Agency effort to reassess and rezone the largely industrial areas around Freeport Street and Dorchester ... Read more.
Update- Feb. 2— : Sadly, Boston Police tell the Reporter that Mr. Carson was discovered at a home in Roxbury and is deceased. ... Read more.
Calling President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban "unconstitutional," Attorney General Maura Healey moved on Tuesday to add Massachusetts and the University of Massachusetts to a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down ... Read more.
A Dedham man was arrested in New York City on Tuesday and will be charged with killing a Dorchester father inside a Mattapan barber shop last June. The defendant, William Shakespeare, 30, was indicted last year by a ... Read more.
Lovely Hoffman, a teacher at Dorchester's Helen Y. Davis ... Read more.
Drawing links to Nazi Germany, the president of the Massachusetts Senate condemned the Trump administration's move to bar entry into the country of nationals from seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
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