After several years of false starts, the Bowdoin-Geneva community gathered on Monday morning to celebrate the successful development and opening of a new mixed-use building development at the corner of Bowdoin and Topliff...
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Congratulations to the Biden Administration, several major social media services, the US Conference of Mayors, the Anti-Defamation League, and other organizations for joining forces to combat the spread of extremist ... Read more.
Boston saw a "fairly large influx" of migrants over the summer that underscored the need for resources at the municipal level, Mayor Michelle Wu said Tuesday.
Casting Boston as "a city that is a hub for services," ... Read more.
Leaders of the sports and political world gathered in the Boston Seaport on Sept. 19 for its annual Celebration of Milestones event and raised $500,000 for Boston Uncornered, an organization with an innovative approach to ... Read more.
Dorchester native Latoyia Edwards, Emmy Award-winning anchor on NBC 10 Boston and NECN, will be one or seven prominent Boston leaders honored for their professional and civic contributions to the city on Oct. 8, when ... Read more.
Longtime Dorchester resident Joyce Linehan, who worked as a top aide to former mayor, and neighbor, Marty Walsh, has joined the Massachusetts College of Art and Design as assistant to the president for special projects. ... Read more.
The long fight over a digital billboard conversion in the parking lot of Boston Bowl on Morrissey Boulevard looks to have cleared the lane and the pins are falling in the direction of the project’s proponents.
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An uptick in reports of open-air drug use in and around a state-owned park in Neponset has prompted increased State Police patrols at the site, according to state Rep. Dan Hunt. The park, which includes McMorrow ... Read more.
A few stray thoughts while waiting for the first frost of the season:
• By most accounts, Saturday’s ‘Open Streets’ event on Dorchester Avenue was a success. The event shut down Dot Ave to vehicular traffic from 9 ... Read more.
As a city councillor, Michelle Wu clashed with Mayor Marty Walsh over Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeal, a powerful city entity that is able to, as she put it in 2019, “interpret the rules for development and decide who can ... Read more.
Joshua Teixeira was only 2 when Nardo Lopes fatally stabbed Bobby Mendes in 1995, setting off years of murderous violence in Dorchester's Cape Verdean community.
That violence and the lure of profits from ... Read more.
An interactive arts exhibition, focused on local Southeast Asian people who have faced deportation from the U.S., will be on display in Fields Corner’s Town Field Park on Saturday.
The free event takes place the ... Read more.
Mayor Michelle Wu lauded Pine Street Inn, a nonprofit that serves as the largest homelessness program provider in the region, as it weighs turning Morrissey Boulevard’s Comfort Inn into permanent, supportive housing for ... Read more.
Pho Hoa, the oldest Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this Saturday, September 24, during the "Open Streets Boston" event on Dorchester Avenue.
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Boston’s own Margo Thunder, above, headlined the Franklin Park Coalition’s second annual Jazz and R&B Festival last Saturday (Sept. 17). The lineup included Fred Woodard, Wali Ali, and Mike Rollins. Angie Dickerson, ... Read more.
American voters are very concerned about the state of our democracy. An NPR/Ipsos poll indicated that 64 percent of Americans believe that our democracy is “in crisis and at risk of failing.” The Quinnipiac poll says 67 ... Read more.
The Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) hosted its second block-by-block neighborhood planning session for Blue Hill Avenue on Mon., Sept. 12, with the controversial related topics of parking and parking meters ... Read more.
Adam G. Hinds, a Massachusetts state senator and former United Nations negotiator, will be the new chief executive officer and executive director of Dorchester’s Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate ... Read more.
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center has partnered with a non-profit development agency to reignite an old plan that would rebuild the Blue Hill Avenue health center, but this time with housing above two new ... Read more.
Dorchester Avenue will be on Saturday the location of the city’s third “Open Streets” day this year, with the weather forecasted to be 67 and sunny.
Stretching for 2.1 miles, between Freeport Street and Gallivan ... Read more.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Maura Healey this week endorsed 5th Suffolk state Rep. nominee Chris Worrell, who is facing independent Roy Owens, a perennial candidate, in the Nov. 8 general election.
Worrell is ... Read more.
With more new train cars on the tracks and the elimination of six "slow zones," the MBTA declared its 30-day Orange Line shutdown "successful" and reopened service to passengers at 5:16 a.m. Monday with trains departing ... Read more.
A key bridge that links Dorchester and South Boston that closed in June will remain shut down through early November as work continues to replace the aging MBTA-owned span that carries people and cars over Red Line and ... Read more.
Life didn’t seem worth living for Beth Fournier after a devastating illness that left her paralyzed, blind, and using a wheelchair before the age of 30. Candidly, she said, she wanted to die.
Then, after she ... Read more.
A well-known mixed-use development company purchased the CVS property on Dorchester Avenue in Lower Mills for $9.5 million in mid-August, but officials at the firm said that while it is a key piece of real estate, they ... Read more.
As another cold New England winter approaches, city officials are urging seniors to take up an opportunity to replace their heating systems while the weather’s still warm.
Richard O’Brien, deputy director of the ... Read more.
