Candidates weigh-in on re-use of Carney Hospital site
Mayor Michelle Wu and her main challenger Josh Kraft shared the stage for the first time in the 2024 mayoral campaign cycle last night at a...
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The state is soliciting proposals from artists, historians, designers, “culture bearers” and anyone else who has an idea for a new Massachusetts state seal, flag and motto.
The Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto ... Read more.
As a teacher, I know the many hats we wear in a given day as coaches, counselors, and more. In the best of times, we encourage students to change the world for the better. In the worst of times, we are forced to protect ... Read more.
If the reader will permit, here are some stray observations as we lament confirmation that Jayson Tatum’s injury is— in fact— a season-ending calamity for the future Hall of Famer and reigning NBA champion.
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Dorchfest—the free music festival in Dorchester’s Ashmont-Adams now in its fourth year— will be held on Sat., May 31, from noon to 5 p.m.
Last year’s event, set on Dorchester Day weekend, drew an estimated 3,000 ... Read more.
The city of Boston sponsors a Zero Waste Day Drop-off this Saturday (May 17) from 8:30 a.m.to noon at Central DPW facility, 400 Frontage Rd., Boston. Proof of residency required. Thermometers, mercury ... Read more.
The city of Boston’s Open Streets series will return to Dorchester Avenue in September and will for the first time extend to Mattapan Square.
Mayor Wu announced the schedule for the fourth annual car-free event ... Read more.
When Daily Table opened its first non-profit grocery store in Dorchester’s Codman Square back in 2015, it was national news. Over the last decade, the enterprise grew to include four additional locations with more than ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans to convert a long empty hall on Blue Hill Avenue and Angell Street, across from Talbot Avenue in Dorchester, into a new Dominican restaurant, ... Read more.
Students and tutors from the Dorchester Education and Enrichment Program —Project DEEP — replaced their pencils with pizza and swapped their workbooks for wings at the organization’s annual recognition night last Thursday ... Read more.
Last week— April 30 — marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the American role in the Vietnam War, a conflict that had such a profound impact for many millions of people. Its reverberations in our culture and politics ... Read more.
She was a newlywed. The small wedding with family and close friends had taken place weeks ago. Such joy, life brimming with anticipation of wonders to come. But early on it was clear something was wrong.
As she ... Read more.
Danny ‘Budzo’ Ryan, who died at 81 on Saturday after a brief illness, will be mourned by a diverse mix of Bostonians. The retired court officer achieved legendary status in a unique trifecta: the court system, politics, ... Read more.
Comcast will award grant packages to 100 small business owners in Greater Boston as part of its RISE program to support entrepreneurial growth and community investment.
Each package will include a robust array of ... Read more.
Dorchester’s Dr. Cassandra Pierre of Dorchester was honored with Fenway Health’s annual Bayard Rustin Award for Courage on April 12. Pierre is an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & ... Read more.
UMass Boston has entered into a partnership with the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland aimed at boosting collaboration between the Dorchester campus and the Irish city in coming years.
UMass Boston Chancellor ... Read more.
When Naja Pham Lockwood was seven years old, she stole a plastic water canteen from another little girl as she boarded a US Navy ship. It was 1975, and her family was one of many fleeing Vietnam following the fall of ... Read more.
The Mass Memories Road Show, a statewide event-based participatory archive program established by UMass Boston, will welcome neighbors to the South Boston branch of the Boston Public Library this Saturday (May 10).
... Read more.The city of Boston hosts a White Stadium Contracting Opportunity Fair at the Grove Hall Library, 41 Geneva Ave., Dorchester on Tues., May 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. Meet members of the team and learn about ... Read more.
The 29th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace will hit the streets of Dorchester this Sunday (May 11). The event, which features a 3.2-mile walk that begins and ends at Town Field in Fields Corner, benefits the Louis D. ... Read more.
A man was fatally shot in the head last Saturday night (May 4) shortly before 11 p.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and Georgia Street in Grove Hall. The man, whose identity has not yet been made public by authorities, was taken to ... Read more.
Former employees of bankrupt Steward Health Care may soon collectively lose tens of millions of dollars in retirement savings, as financial reckoning continues for the system that once operated eight hospitals in ... Read more.
Twelve projects in Dorchester and Mattapan will receive more than $10.1 million in funding through the taxpayer-funded Community Preservation Act (CPA) after approvals from Mayor Wu, the City Council, and a city-appointed ... Read more.
On January 2, 1984, Raymond L. Flynn marked his first day as mayor of Boston by returning to where he had launched his campaign for the office eight months earlier. Just hours after being inaugurated at the Wang Center, ... Read more.
If such a thing were possible, Zemari Facey would have been born with a pair of drumsticks in his hands. As it is, the seventh grader at Dorchester’s Conservatory Lab Charter School (CLCS) on Columbia Road got started on ... Read more.
A portion of beach along Morrissey Boulevard is fenced off this week after a nest of Piping Plover birds was discovered by state officials. The birds are members of a threatened species and thus protected by state law. ... Read more.
