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About 75 people attended a union-organized community forum about the ongoing crisis involving Steward Health Care and Carney Hospital on Thursday evening at St. Gregory’s parish auditorium in Lower Mills. Nurses and other ... Read more.
The state's top health care official assured lawmakers Wednesday that the state is prepared to respond to the next turn in the Steward Health Care crisis, mentioning the potential for a bankruptcy filing, acknowledging ... Read more.
Officials in charge of a city-led project aimed at protecting Dorchester and South Boston from flood waters associated with rising sea levels will host a pair of public meetings, including an in-person tour, over the next ... Read more.
US Rep. Ayanna Pressley and 5th Suffolk District state Rep. Chris Worrell hosted a “Coffee with the Congresswoman” event at First Parish Dorchester on Tuesday (April 23) where Pressley shared some of the projects she had ... Read more.
Traditional Vietnamese music filled a dimly lit room at Dorchester’s VietAID Community Center last Saturday as hundreds of people entered the space. Blue waves were cast onto the ceiling while candles flickered at every ... Read more.
Fearing hospital closures and service reductions, a coalition is planning standouts over the next week at Steward Health Care hospitals in Massachusetts and is calling on elected officials to help secure new hospital ... Read more.
The Dorchester Pee Wee Division (11–12-year-olds) put together a Street Hockey team during vacation week and then went out and won the Mayor’s Cup. The team was put together by Nate Robbins and coached by teenager James ... Read more.
More than 100,000 people in the United States are currently on the national organ transplant waitlist. Patients anxiously await the phone call to inform them that a stranger made a decision to donate and will save their ... Read more.
To the Editor:
The state has queued up planning on two separate but connected projects in Dorchester: Morrissey Boulevard and Kosciuszko Circle. Both require imaginative solutions. Let’s talk about K Circle and the ... Read more.
The recent Alabama Supreme Court decision that ruled frozen embryos to be children is shocking. The decision has shut down or jeopardized in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments for Alabama women and brought back vivid ... Read more.
A quiet transformation is happening on some of Boston’s many vacant lots with the help of hardworking neighbors and the Boston Food Forest Coalition, a nonprofit community land trust that is working to turn empty patches ... Read more.
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission on Monday unveiled a fleet of 37 environmentally friendly electric vehicles and a state-of-the-art sewer system cleaner at an Earth Day-themed event at their headquarters in Roxbury ... Read more.
City of Boston and DCR host a site walk from 10 a.m. to noon this Saturday (April 27) at Moakley ... Read more.
Halina Nguyen was eight years old when her mother first drove her from Fields Corner over to Blue Hill Avenue’s Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center (STEC) for a Friday night clinic known as Volley Against Violence. ... Read more.
Taking on the title of Franklin Park “Defenders,” 20 citizens and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy (ENC) announced Tuesday they plan to move ahead with a lawsuit challenging the re-development of White Stadium in Franklin ... Read more.
Peterson Desir has been riding the Red Line since he was a kid, and for the last several months, the 33-year-old Dorchester native has had the best seat on the train – the driver’s chair. He is one of 23 new heavy rail ... Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Monday convicted Omara Shears, 46, of first-degree murder for the death of Javare Sommerville-Adams, 17, as the teen was standing at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road enjoying the ... Read more.
In letter, board members say Wu administration ‘disregards’ their oversight role on projects
In a communication addressed to Mayor Wu that is rife with potential consequences for development in ... Read more.
On March 28, a crowd of enthusiastic supporters gathered at the Boston headquarters of Central Boston Elder Services to celebrate this vital institution’s golden anniversary. For 50 years, CBES has been a pillar of the ... Read more.
A Massachusetts delegation led by Gov. Healey, Mayor Wu, and UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco will travel to the Vatican next month to attend an international climate summit assembled by Pope Francis.
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