Civics
Franklin Park is saying goodbye to one of its most dedicated supporters, Christine Poff, who has helped transform the space over the past decade and a half as executive director of the Franklin Park Coalition.
Poff has accepted a job as the political... Read more
About 80 people packed into a community room at the Foley Senior Residences on River Street last Thursday night to hear the latest plans for Cote Village, a proposed 76-unit housing development that is under review by the Boston Redevelopment Authority.... Read more
No matter how hard we try, the Bowdoin/Geneva (B/G) neighborhood in Dorchester can’t seem to get ahead. Whether it’s the business district or the residential area, it seems that what is the norm elsewhere does not hold true here. For this article, I am... Read more
Dorchester will be getting a sparkling new addition next week with the opening of Dorset Hall, a 5,300-square-foot restaurant and bar on Neponset Avenue.
The restaurant, which sits on the site of the former Boston Party Rental building at 367 Neponset... Read more
Some "creative" solutions to boost Red Line capacity could be presented in the next few months, according to MBTA officials who detailed Monday how even on-time trains during rush hour can be overcrowded.
"We are going to be looking at other ways that we... Read more
Mattapan Forum: Shavel’le Olivier of Mattapan, held a poster identifying concerns related to displacement and gentrification at a forum held at Mattapan Center for Life last Thursday. Caleb Nelson photo
A forum on gentrification drew about 60 people to... Read more
Hundreds marched from the edge of Columbia Point to Grove Hall on Monday, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, calling for racial and economic justice, a $15-an-hour minimum wage, and union representation, and decrying police brutality and the rampant... Read more
Team MR8 2016: Members of the 2016 Boston Marathon Team MR8 gathered for a photo at Fenway Park’s EMC Club on Thurs., Jan. 14. Photo Copyright Mike Ritter, ritterbin.com
Hundreds of people gathered at Fenway Park’s EMC Club last Thursday evening for the... Read more
Denver trip: State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry visits a marijuana distributor in Colorado with other members of the Senate delegation.With talk in the air of a referendum later this year to legalize marijuana for all in Massachusetts, eight state senators... Read more
A 37-unit apartment building at 200 Hancock Street that was the subject of tenant protests against unsafe living conditions last summer has been sold to a new owner, the Boston-based real estate firm ARX. Trinity Management, a subsidiary of the Dorchester... Read more
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