Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Ulisses Correia e Silva spent part of his time in Boston and New England last week urging more tourism and investment in his country by those with ancestral roots in the island nation, but...
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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.
A man and a woman were shot at Gladeside Avenue and Donwood Terrace in Mattapan around 12:25 p.m. on Friday.
The man was shot several times; the woman once in ... Read more.
A person was shot at the Mobil station at 783 Blue Hill Ave. at American Legion Highway around 5:15 a.m. on Friday.
Boston Police Department officers who ... Read more.
Boston Police continue to investigate a brazen daytime shootout on Monday (July 1) along the Columbia Road corridor that left one man with a gunshot wound to the leg that required the application of a tourniquet by the ... Read more.
It was after almost seven hours of budget grind and a barrage of mostly failed amendments on June 26 when City Councillor Liz Breadon dropped the f-bomb, then defused it with a quick apology.
At issue in was an ... Read more.
On June 14, seniors from ABCD’s University High School (UHS) crossed the graduation stage at the ABCD Thelma D. Burns Building in Roxbury with diplomas in hand and plans for the future in mind. The alternative high school ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal last week approved plans by Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots on Westville Street in ... Read more.
Five years ago, I began taking weekly walks on Blue Hill Avenue for the purpose of seeing the state of anything and everything for public services, streetscapes, types of businesses, housing types, who is walking or using ... Read more.
Teams from Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York came to play in iconic Fenway Paek last month but it’s likely that those who had the shortest commute appreciated their visit the most.
On Wed., June 12, ... Read more.
The US Navy dropped anchor in Boston on Monday, bringing Navy Week – and 50 to 75 sailors from across the country – to the city through next Sunday, when it will be anchors aweigh. The sailors have volunteered to talk ... Read more.
Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin diagnosed the issues he sees repelling some voters from the two major political parties and gave his outlook on the health of American democracy in a televised interview ... Read more.
The MBTA and the City of Boston hosted the latest in a series of public meetings to seek feedback to their $44 million public works project along Blue Hill Avenue last Thursday (June 27) at the Franklin Park Clubhouse in ... Read more.
The MBTA and the City of Boston hosted the latest in a series of public meetings to seek feedback to their $44 million public works project along Blue Hill Avenue last Thursday (June 27) at the Franklin Park Clubhouse in ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal last week approved a landowner’s plans to replace a Richdale convenience store and a parking lot at 1420 Dorchester Ave near Adams Street, with a 5-story, 46-unit apartment building.
The ... Read more.
“This is the last coffee hour of our two-month-plus season of going to every single neighborhood. The best for last,” said Mayor Wu last Wednesday morning (June 26) at the newly renovated Mother’s Rest Park near Four ... Read more.
Beer, barbeque, and distinctive art brought together close to a hundred people at the Dorchester Brewing Company on Monday night, June 24, to celebrate 30 years of the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA), a unique institution that ... Read more.
A host of family, friends, and long-time Boston Fire Department jakes gathered with Mayor Wu on June 28 at the corner of Hallet Davis and Milton streets adjacent to Florian Hall to dedicate a memorial square to BFD Lt. ... Read more.
