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Boston’s municipal election season is two months away but that doesn’t mean we should wait to mobilize voters. Year after year, our unpreparedness for elections as a state and city is starkly exposed – and the impacts ... Read more.
To the Editor:
I have had your April 30, 2023, issue on my desk since I finished reading it a few days after it arrived in the mail. Normally, I keep an issue until I’m finished with it and then in the recycle bin ... Read more.
To the Editor:
Thank you, Bill Walczak for your clarity and perspective in your commentary on July 14 about ... Read more.
By definition, a quilt is garment made up of many pieces – a patchwork of colorful and unique materials crafted into the warm embrace of a blanket. The same definition would suffice for the Codman Square Senior Quilting ... Read more.
Last year, Dorchester’s Rene Haile and then-downtown resident Julian Cooney were in their seventh – and last – month of serving on grand jury duty when Haile leaned over one day and asked Cooney if he was interested in ... Read more.
Amid a persistent shortage of nurses, Mass General Brigham and the University of Massachusetts, two of the region’s largest employers, are strengthening their relationship with a $20 million investment in the Dorchester ... Read more.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency’s board signed off last week on the list of 16 entities that will share in $352,000 in funding from an agreement struck between the city and the developers behind the Dot Block ... Read more.
The Cape Verdean community celebrated 48 years of independence from colonial rule on July 5 at a Boston City Hall flag-raising ceremony. Numerous organizations were in attendance, including the Cape Verdean Association of ... Read more.
Gov. Healey has appointed Joyce Linehan, a Lower Mills resident who was a top adviser to former mayor Marty Walsh, as a member of the nine-member Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). The panel was ... Read more.
For the past 11 years, the Dorchester community has patiently awaited the opening of a neighborhood food cooperative. This summer, the wait will be over, according to John Santos, the general manager of the Dorchester ... Read more.
It’s back to the drawing board for some refinements on a planned four-unit townhouse configuration for long-derelict 15 Parkman St. in the wake of a rejection of the project by the St. Mark Area Civic Association (SMACA ... Read more.
The one-story brick building at 1739 Dorchester Ave., a short walk from St. Mark’s church, has been home over the years to variously named bakeries and cafes, including Dot 2 Dot. On Easter Sunday this year, a new name ... Read more.
The master plan for the $5 billion Dorchester Bay City project, which aims to remake Columbia Point into a commercial and residential hub just steps from the Red Line, is on track to head before the board of the Boston ... Read more.
City and school officials are weighing a public-private partnership with Boston Unity Soccer Partners, a group of investors seeking to bring a women’s professional soccer team to Boston and proposing a $30 million ... Read more.
The second annual Boston Little Saigon Cho Dem (Night Market) presented a cavalcade of exciting entertainment, food, and fun on Dorchester Avenue and Town Field last Saturday, with thousands flocking to Fields Corner to ... Read more.
Councillors spent more than seven hours on the last Wednesday in June deliberating over Mayor Wu’s vetoes, and just one override went through, a proposal from District 3 Councillor Frank Baker to fund a salary increase ... Read more.
The Ward 15 Democratic Committee last weekend backed Meetinghouse Hill activist Jennifer Johnson as its choice in the seven-way District 3 preliminary to replace outgoing Councillor Frank Baker.
Johnson, a member ... Read more.
The city’s redistricting saga, marked by councillors blasting each other in the battle over the boundaries of the nine district-level Council seats, ended with a quiet federal court filing last Friday.
The filing ... Read more.
Boston Police report finding a 12-year-old with a fatal gunshot wound at 35 Fessenden St. around 2:05 p.m.
Walter Hendrick, 22, of Mattapan, was arrested on charges that include improper storage of a firearm to ... Read more.
If you build it, they will come. May numbers for the Fairmount Line show a record surge in ridership, bringing usage to 130 percent of the pre-Covid record numbers.
In a transit system that has struggled to even ... Read more.
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