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Lynne Mooney Teta on Tuesday announced her resignation as headmaster of Boston Latin School, the prestigious exam school that has spent the past six months under a magnifying glass over racial issues.
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Seeking to help the often low-wage workers who rely on check cashing businesses to collect their pay, the Senate last Thursday passed a bill to limit how much check-cashers can take as their cut. The bill (S 2323) limits ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 30s was fatally shot around 11:10 p.m. on Saturday at 62 Astoria St.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
A second person was also shot, but was ... Read more.
Gun violence cast a pall over the Codman Square Health Center community yesterday, as it gathered for the center’s annual meeting. Attorney General Maura Healey and state Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou ... Read more.
A former Dorchester resident wanted by the FBI and on the run for 23 years has been captured in North Carolina. The FBI says that John Joseph Hartin, 46, allegedly abused two young boys in Hyde Park back in 1993, but fled ... Read more.
Just over half of the Boston Public Schools Class of 2009 have now completed college, just shy of the 52 percent goal that late-Mayor Menino set in 2009 when he launched an initiative aimed at improving college ... Read more.
America’s oldest amateur baseball league is back in full swing, as players in the eight-team Boston Park League take the field this summer for the 88th straight season.
“It’s a great opportunity for a lot of ... Read more.
A benefit walk held last Saturday (June 11) at Dorchester’s Pope John Paul II Park raised funds and awareness about Myasthenia Gravis (MG), an incurable chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease. Taunton native Brittney ... Read more.
Dorchester consumers are gaining new options this summer for their digital TV and high-speed Internet spending. RCN Boston, which also provides phone service, announced has expanded deeper into Dorchester this spring, ... Read more.
St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children has secured a $100,000 grant to build a new recreation center at their Jones Hill campus. The gift is one of 100 grants given out by the Cummings Foundation, a Woburn-based ... Read more.
The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center- Boston will celebrate its fifth year this month with a series of promotions and free activities starting on June 20 and highlighted by an outdoor carnival and ... Read more.
Ventura Park in Lower Mills, languishing still without the repairs promised in 2015, will finally see some improvement, said state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and state Rep. Dan Cullinane after a meeting with Department of ... Read more.
The Dorchester House Tour was a smash on Sunday, organizers and homeowners said, with hundreds of people traipsing through the neighborhood’s Victorian homes on a warm and sunny afternoon.
Vicki Rugo with the ... Read more.
Tonight's annual event known as the Donna Summer Memorial Roller Disco Party returns to City Hall Plaza with a little word play in its name: “Celebration of Summer III,” hailing both Boston’s highest-grossing recording ... Read more.
Catholic Charities held a breakfast fundraiser at the office of Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in the Seaport District last Thursday morning to benefit the Teen Center at St. Peter’s. The event’s co-hosts included Fr. ... Read more.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority’s board of directors last week approved the Indigo Block, a proposal that will transform a former East Cottage Street factory into a mix of affordable housing and commercial uses. The $ ... Read more.
A Dorchester District Court probation officer who had just been indicted for the rape and assault of a woman in his charge died Tuesday afternoon in a car crash in Randolph. William Averill, 50, of West Roxbury was due to ... Read more.
The women who gathered in Fields Corner were bonded by violence and loss. A grandmother who had lost her grandson and five mothers who had lost their sons in shootings sat in the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute ... Read more.
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