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Ronan Park is a busy place this summer, thanks to partners who have teamed up to program basketball and flag football games on the courts and playing fields of this scenic, hilltop city space nestled between Bowdoin- ... Read more.
The Rockland Trust Foundation has partnered with the YMCA of Greater Boston to support teen employment this summer, including at the Dorchester YMCA on Washington Street, with a $90,000 multi-year donation. The first ... Read more.
“This is our kid,” read the message I received from a colleague pediatric subspecialist. That is how I, as a primary care pediatrician, initially found out that one of our young patients had died during a tragic drowning ... Read more.
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts has named Eric Wirth, 41, of South Boston, and Jalil Presley-Rogers, 17, of Dorchester, as the agency’s 2024 Match of the Year. The selection is one of nearly 4,000 ... Read more.
A local state law opt-in could provide exemptions to small businesses that can’t afford any increase should the city’s proposed new tax levy be approved.
Earlier this year, in April, Mayor Michelle Wu sent a home ... Read more.
City neighborhoods and the policy community are rallying around a veteran Boston Police officer who suffered a stroke while running a road race last month. One show of support for Sgt. Jack Hynes and his family was the ... Read more.
Boston middle schoolers in the KeySteps summer program spent a recent Tuesday learning about the Lower Neponset River and its Superfund site cleanup with the help of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the state ... Read more.
This Saturday (July 27), Mattapan on Wheels will make its annual return for the 14th year with food, music, and a tour of the city’s green and blue spaces. This free event is sponsored by the Neponset River Watershed ... Read more.
The Boston Planning Department Board voted 4-0 last Thursday to authorize the first phase of renovations to White Stadium as the Wu administration moves ahead with a controversial partnership with a professional women’s ... Read more.
Jack Connors, a businessman and philanthropist long considered one of Boston’s chief powerbrokers, died on Monday at age 82 of cancer. He was one of the founding partners of the advertising giant Hill, Holliday, and ... Read more.
Mayor Wu announced this week that she is pregnant and her family plans to welcome a third child next year. “Conor, Blaise, Cass, and I can’t wait to welcome another little one to our family and to Boston,” Wu said in a ... Read more.
Democrats who represent Dorchester and Mattapan were swift to embrace President Biden’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race and enthusiastically echo his endorsement of Kamala Harris to step in as the party’s ... Read more.
Outrage over the demotion of a well-respected Boston Police officer triggered a larger discussion about the city’s commitment to overall policing reforms during a lively public meeting held in the basement of Roxbury’s ... Read more.
The escalating tussle over rights of way on Boston’s streets and sidewalks came to a head last Sunday (July 14) when a dispute between a motorist and riders on mopeds resulted in a fatal shooting. The victim was the ... Read more.
Roughly two-thirds of the work is now complete on a “missing link” of the long-awaited Neponset Greenway path between Tenean Beach and Morrissey Boulevard, a public works project that advocates say will be a game-changer ... Read more.
All of Steward Health Care's Massachusetts hospitals received bids as the for-profit company looks to sell off its facilities during ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday.
"We have ... Read more.
At a public hearing Monday afternoon, city councillors heard plans-in-progress for modernizing Boston’s review of development proposals.
The working draft summarized by officials from the Boston Planning Department ... Read more.
City Councillor John FitzGerald began a series of neighborhood walks throughout District 3 with a visit to Bowdoin Street on Tuesday, July 16. Although the extreme heat turned the visit into an indoor, round able chat, ... Read more.
A controversial proposal for major renovations to White Stadium will go before the board of the Boston Planning Department on Thursday. Members will be asked to approve a recommendation that would allow the city agency’s ... Read more.
In Boston, the availability of quality childcare and early education is limited and expensive. The gaps in access are highest in some of the city’s most racially diverse neighborhoods, including Dorchester, which has the ... Read more.
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