One by one, parents from the Paul Dever Elementary School on Columbia Point recounted this week how their lives were upended last week by an unexpected e-mail from Boston Public Schools (BPS) announcing...
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With Boston’s revaluation process complete and tax bills for the second half of fiscal year 2025 in payers’ hands, property owners now have a clear picture of the taxes they owe, with tax rates rising for both residential ... Read more.
Proponents of an adult-use cannabis dispensary in Fields Corner took up their cause for opening in a now-vacant Dorchester Avenue storefront during the Jan. 7 meeting of the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA).
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About 300 people attended an appreciation dinner hosted by the Vietnamese community’s 1975 Memorial Project at the Saigon Seafood Restaurant in Fields Corner last Saturday evening. The event, which included performances ... Read more.
Mayor Wu and her family have welcomed a new baby.
"Yesterday at 2pm, Mayor Wu and her husband Conor welcomed Baby Mira Wu Pewarski—arriving at 8lbs, 4oz and 20 inches—to their family and to Boston," a city ... Read more.
Enrollment at the Massachusetts Health Connector is at a record high, with more than 348,000 people accessing coverage through the state's health insurance marketplace, officials said Monday ahead of a key deadline.
... Read more.In a sign of growing unrest in another Massachusetts school district, this time its largest, the Boston Teachers Union plans Thursday to hold informational pickets before school begins at all 116 public schools in the ... Read more.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu filed a new tax relief package Monday to offset increases residents are seeing in tax bills this month, after the Senate last year killed a Boston home rule petition to temper the spikes.
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The state's highest court on Wednesday upheld the controversial MBTA Communities Act as a constitutional law that the attorney general has the power to enforce with legal action, but also ruled that existing guidelines ... Read more.
Just before the holidays, Ironworkers Local 7 members visited Rosie’s Place in Boston’s South End with boxes of donated coats, hats, gloves, and other winter items for those living at the country’s first shelter for women ... Read more.
Last month, as Mayor Wu and city officials met with dozens of people who were able to become first-time homeowners in Boston by receiving financial assistance from the city, she said, “I’m thrilled to celebrate these new ... Read more.
A federal magistrate judge agreed last month that a Dorchester man acted reprehensibly in demanding sex and nude photos from women who moved into one of his “sober houses” in attempts to get clean and should pay damages ... Read more.
What does the year 2025 have in store for the neighborhoods on the south side of Boston?
As a new, but familiar, and, for many, a menacing administration takes power again in Washington, it’s also a mayoral ... Read more.
A new legislative session has arrived, and there are already loads of pressing issues that appear ripe for attention from Gov. Healey, Senate President Karen Spilka, House Speaker Ronald Mariano and the rest of Beacon ... Read more.
Last week’s Reporter included a report on a Dec. 23 event at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 Hall in Lower Mills in which Gov. Healey signed an executive order on ways to increase construction jobs for women and ... Read more.
Turning 70 and dealing with a debilitating back operation has given me the opportunity to reminisce about my early days in Boston and how I learned the culture and politics of the city in my early days here.
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When landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted—of Central Park fame—moved from New York to Massachusetts 143 years ago, his decision was motivated by potential. Specifically, the potential he saw in a more-than-500-acre ... Read more.
“This city has never been safer, period.”
It’s the sort of pronouncement that makes slightly superstitious newsroom editors and probably a lot of cops, prosecutors, and savvy citizens a bit queasy with the thought ... Read more.
About 50 people turned out for the annual First Day Hike at Pope John Paul II Park sponsored by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) and the Neponset River Greenway Council.
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Pearl Scott, a 32-year-old singer, songwriter, and producer from Dorchester is one of 23 New England-based musicians who will share in a $40,500 grant aimed at helping them make ends meet while they focus on their music ... Read more.
Gov. Healey on Monday announced a review of shelter policy amid a barrage of questions over how a Dominican national — who the feds say entered the country illegally — came to be at a Revere family shelter with 10 pounds ... Read more.
The Dorchester Brewing Company (DBCo.) building on Massachusetts Avenue has been sold to an abutting trade union in a deal that will not impact the ongoing operations of the popular brewery.
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An 18-year-old man from Dorchester is facing first-degree murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a 19-year-old man to death in a Brockton home early on Jan. 4. Jayden Fernandez was arraigned Monday in Brockton District ... Read more.
Boston Police Capt. Steven Sweeney has taken the helm at the C-11 police district in Dorchester after a re-assignment from his most recent post as commander of the South End’s D-4 district about two weeks ago. Capt. Shawn ... Read more.
A new partner in the massive 35-75 Morrissey Boulevard redevelopment project told the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association on Monday night that he will honor a pledge by a previous investor to donate $750,000 over the ... Read more.
Some of them are hidden behind beige vinyl siding and others stand alongside modern church signage across parts of Dorchester and Mattapan – a Star of David, assorted Hebrew characters, cornerstone markers with dates in ... Read more.
