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UMass Boston’s Terry Condon has announced that 2016 will be her final season as a head coach of the university’s women’s volleyball team. During her coaching career, Condon mentored countless athletes while helping to ... Read more.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board last Thursday gave its greenlight to three Dorchester projects, paving the way for new senior housing, residences for the formerly homeless, and a car dealership ... Read more.
A key commercial building at the southern entrance to Adams Village has been sold to a new owner for $3.2 million. The two-story corner structure at 512 Gallivan Blvd. remains the village’s most prominent— and ... Read more.
The Boston School Committee voted last Wednesday to accept Superintendent Tommy Chang’s proposal to shut down the struggling Mattahunt Elementary School next June 30 and reopen it as an Early Education Center the next day ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man was found shot around 2:55 a.m. on Saturday at 195 Normandy St. and that he was declared dead at the scene.
The man was in his late 20s, police say.
... Read more.Julian Troche, 24, was ordered held without bail today on charges he fatally shot Andrew Flonory at a party on Astoria Street in Mattapan on June 18, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Flonory, ... Read more.
The tollbooth demolition and road reconstruction project on the Massachusetts Turnpike may affect travel plans for some of the nearly 1 million Bay Staters expected to hit the roads this Thanksgiving holiday. As local ... Read more.
Lower Mills Branch Library Holiday Party
Bring your family and build a graham cracker gingerbread house and create Christmas decorations at our holiday party on Sat., Dec. 10 from 11-1 p.m. Pizza ... Read more.
City salutes his 45 years in civic life; it’s now Flynn Marine Park in South Boston
Some 400 family members, friends, and political and community leaders assembled last Saturday morning in South ... Read more.
The imprisonment rate of residents of Boston’s communities of color – areas of Dorchester and Roxbury – are consistently double and triple the city average, according to a recently released ... Read more.
Sonny’s – the longtime Adams Corner watering hole that closed abruptly after its sale last month— will be ... Read more.
Massachusetts politicians worked through their shock and disappointment in the days after the unexpected defeat of Hillary Clinton by Donald Trump, then switched gears as they began to identify local and party priorities ... Read more.
The Bay State on Nov. 8 joined three other states in legalizing marijuana, bringing the national total to eight and becoming the first state on the eastern seaboard to legalize recreational marijuana. Legislative ... Read more.
Six Dorchester teens will perform in The Freelance Players production of “Lord Scarecrow,” an original musical based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Feathertop.” The production will feature a total of 18 young actors telling ... Read more.
Whittier Street Health Center celebrated the opening of a new pharmacy located at Quincy Commons, 279 Blue Hill Ave., in Dorchester last week. Whittier’s pharmacy is part of the 340B Drug Discount Program that allows ... Read more.
Frustrated parents and Mattapan community members, about two dozen in all, used a meeting Tuesday night to propose three alternatives to BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang, who was present, about his plan to shut down the ... Read more.
The Boston City Council on Wednesday approved a request by Councilor Frank Baker to ask the state legislature for 12 new liquor licenses for the South Bay Town Center project.
The company building the ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports two men in their late 20s were shot outside 51 Ames St. around 4:45 p.m. on Saturday.
One man was pronounced dead not long after his arrival at a local hospital. The other ... Read more.
Proponents of the Boston-only ballot measure “Question 5” won a decisive victory Tuesday night, with voters overwhelmingly voting to adopt a one percent property tax surcharge to benefit housing, parks, and historical ... Read more.
If you had $16 million that you could use for affordable housing, where would you spend the money? City officials are facing that question after Tuesday’s “yes” vote on Question 5, the Community Preservation Act, that ... Read more.
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