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Michael G. Adams, Kentucky’s secretary of state, received the 2024 Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation on Sunday evening in front of an audience of 500 people at JFK Library in Dorchester ... Read more.

Dot Art, the non-profit youth program, which serves children ages 5-10 but hopes to expand to older kids, held a gathering on May 23 at home.stead café to raise funds as the organization prepares to vacate its home at The ... Read more.

One of the residents at The Boston Home (TBH) on Dorchester Avenue at Gallivan Blvd. has been equipped with a low-cost device to help her navigate her way through her day, thanks to a team of engineers-in-training at ... Read more.

Eversource is currently working on building a new 2.1-mile underground transmission line connecting its Andrew Square substation to the Dewar Street substation off Dot Ave. in Savin Hill. The project, which is scheduled ... Read more.

In a rare move, the Boston City Council has voted to reject a recommendation from the Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC) to designate two buildings on the Port Norfolk peninsula that once housed parts of the Putnam Nail ... Read more.

A new collaboration between UMass Boston and the Boston Community Leadership Academy (BCLA)/McCormack 7-12 School just got a lot sweeter for one graduating senior this year with a new scholarship fund at UMass Boston ... Read more.

A federal jury last Friday convicted Stavros Papantoniadis, 48, of Westwood, on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor for what has been described as a reign of terror against his workers ... Read more.

The president of the Boston City Council planned to press this week for ranked choice voting in the city, an electoral reform that more than 1.8 million voters rejected for the entire state during the 2020 election. ... Read more.

“Once Upon a Carnival,” a musical written by Dorchester’s Angele Maraj, will be featured at the Boston New Works Festival at the Calderwood Pavilion and Boston Center for the Arts from Thurs., June 20, through Sunday, the ... Read more.

Diane Patrick, senior counsel at the law firm Ropes & Gray and a former First Lady of Massachusetts, has been elected chair of the Epiphany School’s board of trustees. The independent Dorchester-based school serves ... Read more.

Last Tuesday (June 4), 30 Boston businesses were honored at the second annual Legacy Business Awards, a program intended to promote and enhance family-owned enterprises across the neighborhoods.

After a selection ... Read more.

Members of the Morrissey Commission held a community meeting on Monday (June 10) hoping to arrive at consensus decisions on some of the design alternatives presented by MassDOT for the rehabilitation of the Morrissey ... Read more.

A federal jury on Friday convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with ... Read more.

Dorchester’s Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS) has moved to an online-only model after a shooting incident at the nearby Shawmut MBTA station last Friday in which a student is thought to have been the intended ... Read more.

Divisions Over Shifting Tax Burden Reflected By 8-4 Tally

Mayor Michelle Wu's controversial pursuit of a special law to shift the city's property tax burden beyond allowable limits won approval ... Read more.

Mayor Wu on Monday endorsed the attorney Allison Cartwright as the next clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County. She is running against current at-large City Councillor Erin Murphy, whose background is as a ... Read more.

A key industrial building near Fields Corner serving the Feeney Brothers Co. operations was sold last month for $8.5 million to a Wakefield developer that focuses on transitioning industrial property into e-commerce ... Read more.

Perhaps ignorance is bliss when it comes to my obsession with the pharmacy coupon racket. I was never much for visiting the pharmacy and rarely shopped at Walgreens, CVS, or the bankrupt Rite-Aid chain. But a few years ... Read more.

Boston would gain 205 alcoholic beverage licenses and an opportunity to bolster restaurants and revitalize neighborhoods and communities of color, under legislation that the House approved last week.

The redrafted ... Read more.

The housing crisis in our state is well documented. So well, in fact, that it may be one of the only topics in today’s political discourse that doesn’t trigger an immediate debate when mentioned.

By now, most ... Read more.

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