City councillors made quick work Wednesday of setting Boston's property tax rates for 2025 after a months-long campaign to shift the balance beyond normal limits collapsed in the Senate.
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Football players are used to acronyms like QB, OT, and WR, but last Tuesday night, New England Patriots players Demontrey Jacobs, Caleb Jones, and Tyrese Robinson had a new one to work with: AI, or artificial intelligence ... Read more.
Inspired by similar events in Lower Mills and other parts of Boston, merchants and neighbors in Adams Village are organizing a “holiday stroll” for this Saturday (Dec. 14) from 3 to 7 p.m. to celebrate the season and the ... Read more.
A man was shot and killed on Monday night (Dec. 9) on Devon Street, a side road off Columbia Road, and Boston Police said that they arrested two men who are suspects in the fatal incident. According to a BPD account, ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans for a four-story building with 26 affordable apartments to wrap around the Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church at ... Read more.
Mayor Wu Still Wants Action, But Biz Groups Say Pause And Analyze Data
Business groups that in October backed a controversial Boston tax proposal last Thursday called for lawmakers to pause any ... Read more.
FBI agents arrested Boston City Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson at her Dorchester home last Friday morning (Dec. 6) and federal prosecutors later accused her of orchestrating a kickback scheme with a staffer to obtain ... Read more.
A Boston senator delayed action on a controversial home rule petition for the second time this week, pushing consideration off after new data emerged about the city's property tax outlook.
Sen. Nick Collins, a ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the owners of Spukies N Pizza at 1159 Washington St. at Dorchester ... Read more.
Beantown Slam decided to venture off the basketball court this fall and organize their first-ever flag football season, which ended on Nov. 26 with the ‘Turkey Bowl’ at Ronan Park.
The six-week, co-ed program for ... Read more.
The NHP Foundation (NHPF) marked the grand reopening of Blue Mountain Apartments on Cheney Street with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 21. The Section 8 multi-building property has been renovated to support low-income ... Read more.
With a packed house in the Great Hall at Codman Square, the annual Hidden Heroes & Sheroes Gala feted a range of neighborhood leaders who typically avoid the spotlight but who, on the night of Nov. 22, found ... Read more.
For several decades I’ve had the privilege of giving public health tours of Codman Square, which I have called a “nonprofit innovation district.” In this half-mile district there are amazing nonprofits that have inspired ... Read more.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester held its annual Grand Drawing Gala on Sat., Nov. 23, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. More than 350 guests were on hand to celebrate this year’s theme: Lights, Camera, Inclusion, ... Read more.
Snow hasn’t hit Boston yet this season, but Dorchester will get a storm of its own this week when Ehud Ettun’s Desert Snow Quartet visits Peabody Hall on Thursday (Dec.5) at 7:30 p.m.
Ettun is a Boston-based ... Read more.
Boston City Hall's assessing chief on Tuesday voiced an ever-tightening timeline for Beacon Hill to act on the city's property tax plan, while also declining to share data that some skeptical officials have said could be ... Read more.
Holiday tree lighting events were held across Dorchester and other city neighborhoods last Saturday (Nov. 30). The Mayor’s Office helped to organize a series of ceremonies on Saturday afternoon that culminated in a ... Read more.
The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday this week that Boston City Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson is being investigated by federal authorities who have issued subpoenas to Boston City Hall. The initial report said that ... Read more.
The TechBoston High School football team took home the City League championship title by beating Brighton High School on Thanksgiving eve, 50-14, at Love Field at Roberts Playground.
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Before becoming president and CEO of Harbor Health Services— the agency that operates three health center facilities in Dorchester and Mattapan— Chuck Jones worked in community health at Thundermist Health Center in ... Read more.
State Sen. Nick Collins delayed action on Monday on a controversial, time-sensitive Boston property tax reclassification bill, putting it on ice until after the deadline for action recommended by Mayor Wu.
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In 2004, Symone Crawford and her husband bought their first home, a three-decker in Mattapan, with help from a program offered by the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA). According to the city’s Department of ... Read more.
Boston Police put out a “wanted” alert on Dec. 3 for 31-year-old Gerald Vick of Dorchester, whom police say is a suspect in a shooting incident in August 2023 during a parade on Talbot Avenue. Vick is wanted on a warrant ... Read more.
Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) will convene a "Community Listening Session" on Thursday, December 12, at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 Training Center, 1181 Adams St. in Dorchester.
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The Boston Police Department reports arresting a teenager on murder charges for the June 28 death of Edwin Diaz-Geraldo, 20, of Brighton, who was shot and then crashed into a house at 24 Fifield St.
A passenger in ... Read more.
