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The St. Mark’s Area Civic Association met on Tuesday night and voted 11-5 to keep a referendum on a Boston casino confined to the ward in which the gambling facility would be located. The vote followed a discussion among ... Read more.
The saga of City Hall vs. the Star Five Oil Company may have reached a turning point.
City officials said this week that an abatement order is in effect, preventing the company from parking heavy duty ... Read more.
The Ethos Equality Fund launch on February 16 proved to be an unexpectedly good night for the non-profit agency based in Jamaica Plain. Ethos hosted a fundraiser at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square featuring a ... Read more.
A pier fire at the Dorchester Yacht Club off the Southeast Expressway erupted late Wednesday afternoon and went to two alarms because of the difficulty of fighting it, the Boston Fire Department reports.
... Read more.STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 29, 2012…..The Legislature, which has extended numerous fiscal lifelines to the MBTA over the years, is taking a wait-and-see approach to the agency’s latest bout with financial turmoil although ... Read more.
UPDATE: Police report LaRue was found and returned safely home Wednesday evening.
The Boston Police Department is seeking the public's help to find LaRue Henderson, 13, who hasn't been seen since yesterday ... Read more.
Fearing night-time disruptions from trash pick-ups, the civic group for the Ashmont Hill neighborhood is backing a push to regulate the timing of commercial trash collection.
The Ashmont Hill Association last week ... Read more.
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 27, 2012……Massachusetts heads towards its March 6 presidential primary with about 80,000 fewer registered voters than October 2010, a month before the last statewide election.
Figures ... Read more.
The FBI has launched a campaign to find John J. Hartin, a Dorchester man who fled the area after being charged with five counts of statutory rape in 1993.
The FBI says there's a $25,000 reward for ... Read more.
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, FEB. 23, 2012…..Gov. Deval Patrick said Thursday that his administration is considering the use of excess snow-and-ice removal funds to help limit the service cuts proposed by the MBTA, as the cash- ... Read more.
Firefighters had to lay several hundred feet of hose Wednesday night to battle a brush fire along the Neponset River in Lower Mills.
The brush fire, reported around 7:15 p.m., consumed brush behind Ventua Street, ... Read more.
Boston Public School officials this week called for district-wide improvements in order to ensure a re-designed school assignment plan is fit for public approval by its December 2012 deadline.
Superintendent Dr. ... Read more.
Can’t Wait Productions, a fledgling, Dorchester-based theater company, was founded on the concept that actors and artists do not have to wait for an opportunity or an audition and can take control of their own careers. ... Read more.
It’s far too early to know if Dorchester’s one-and-only hospital can survive and thrive under the for-profit model of its new owners, Steward Health Care Systems. But for those seeking a reliable indicator that Carney ... Read more.
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to erroneously repeat it to their supporters. Such was the case with U.S. Sen. Scott Brown last week when his office uploaded a video statement onto YouTube about the ... Read more.
Dorchester’s arts and cultural scene could get a boost as city officials and local activists work to designate parts of the neighborhood as a “cultural district.” State lawmakers signed off on legislation authorizing “ ... Read more.
Community leaders and elected officials inaugurated the Fairmount Indigo Planning Initiative at the Strand Theatre on Tuesday afternoon. The two-year program will call on economic development groups, city and state ... Read more.
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