A Dorchester woman who just started training in life-saving measures through her local community center, swung into action last month to save the life of a stricken health worker. Leslie Ann Milton, 69, was at the right...
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City Councillor John FitzGerald began a series of neighborhood walks throughout District 3 with a visit to Bowdoin Street on Tuesday, July 16. Although the extreme heat turned the visit into an indoor, round able chat, ... Read more.
In Boston, the availability of quality childcare and early education is limited and expensive. The gaps in access are highest in some of the city’s most racially diverse neighborhoods, including Dorchester, which has the ... Read more.
That’s the question we’re asking Boston residents this month as the city continues to develop its first-ever city-wide participatory budgeting process. But first, what is participatory budgeting?
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I’m excited to let you know about two important programs that help our older residents save more money: The first is the Medicare Savings Program (MSP), which now offers more savings to more residents. Thanks to changes ... Read more.
If you watched the Boston City Council’s 12-hour budget debate on June 26, you might not have known that three weeks earlier, on June 5, the same council voted to approve 99.67 percent of Mayor Michelle Wu’s budget, ... Read more.
Mary-dith Tuitt of Dorchester was honored for her work serving women veterans like herself last month at the Massachusetts State House, where she received the 2024 Deborah Sampson Award from Gov. Healey and Veterans ... Read more.
The Friends of Grove Hall Branch Library have proposed renaming the branch’s second floor community space after civil rights advocate Mamie (Mimi) Jones, a move supported in a resolution by the City Council last month ... Read more.
Five University of Massachusetts faculty members were awarded the 2024 Manning Prize for Excellence in Teaching last month, including Dr. Mohamed Amine Gharbi, an assistant professor of physics at UMass Boston The prize ... Read more.
Dr. Carla Haith is joining Mother Caroline Academy as its leader with several initiatives on her to-do list, including bringing back the athletics department. The 45-year-old Dorchester native calls her latest position it ... Read more.
The director of the Boston Main Streets Foundation has a lot in store for the city’s network of business districts, including a more direct relationship with each of the 20 organizations across the neighborhoods. Eric ... Read more.
The city and private vendors are upping their games when it comes to the expansion of curbside electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in Boston. Officials recently announced that 11 publicly owned chargers with enough ... Read more.
Monday evening at 6 p.m. was the deadline for bids on the Massachusetts hospitals operated by the bankrupt Steward Health Care firm, but exactly how the smoldering crisis unfolds this week and later on could hinge on ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday rejected a proposal for a burger trailer inside a tire shop at 538 Blue Hill Ave. at Seaver Street over concerns from neighbors ... Read more.
Mayor Wu and her administration’s public health leaders unveiled their latest plan to combat a disturbing gap in life expectancy rates across Boston’s neighborhoods on Wednesday in front of about 75 people who gathered ... Read more.
The shockingly poor performance of President Biden during the June 27 debate has prompted a furious debate within the Democratic party – and among many unenrolled and independent voters who are now deeply concerned about ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports five people were shot at 10 Greenwood St. shortly before 9:50 p.m. on Wednesday.
All the victims were 21 or younger, ... Read more.
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Starting Aug. 1, MBTA riders will be able to tap a credit card or mobile wallet to pass through subway gates or board above-ground trolleys and buses, officials announced Tuesday.
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Cape Verdean leaders, most of them from Dorchester and Roxbury, and city officials celebrated the 49th anniversary of Cape Verde attaining its freedom from Portugal with a ceremonial flag raising at City Hall on July 5 ... Read more.
A federal court judge last week blocked a rescue loan in the Neponset Wharf bankruptcy case in laying out concerns that the lender for the Port Norfolk waterfront project is related to the borrower, leaving the high- ... Read more.
You may have seen the recent headlines, warning of a crisis in maternal health, citing reports of an explosion in the number of women who die in childbirth. As we note in a recent Boston Indicators report, the reality is ... Read more.
When the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) gathered for its 40th anniversary block party and annual meeting on June 27 at the historic Shirley-Eustis House, the organization offered special recognition to ... Read more.
The Boston Caribbean American Association (BCAA) held its inaugural block party in Dorchester at Harvard Commons last month during Caribbean Heritage Month. The organization, which had its launch in April, is looking to ... Read more.
The All Dorchester Sports & Leadership’s girls softball spring league wrapped up its season over the past few weeks with championship games at several age groups, and a celebration for the T-ball players. League ... Read more.
When Rich Kershaw’s company bought the building at 95 Berkeley St. in 2016, the plan was to renovate and rent out the offices. “Upgrade the elevators, upgrade the bathrooms, redo the lobbies and the facade and hopefully ... Read more.
The third installment of the Night Market/Cho Dem street festival will take place this Saturday (July 13) from 4 p.m to 9 p.m. along Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner with the avenue closed from Adams to Gibson streets ... Read more.
