About 200 people attended an appreciation dinner hosted by the Vietnamese community’s 1975 Memorial Project at the Saigon Seafood Restaurant in Fields Corner last Saturday evening. The event, which included performances...
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More than 52 organizations, led by the Fields Corner-based Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW), are continuing to call on President Biden and Gov. Healey to protect immigrant and refugee communities ahead of the Jan. ... Read more.
Fueled by the highest immigration levels in decades, Massachusetts saw its largest population increase in 60 years between 2023 and 2024 as the rate of domestic outmigration significantly slowed, according to US Census ... Read more.
With Boston’s revaluation process complete and tax bills for the second half of fiscal year 2025 in payers’ hands, property owners now have a clear picture of the taxes they owe, with tax rates rising for both residential ... Read more.
James Vaughan, a 37-year member of Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 12, was sworn in last week as the new business manager of New England’s largest plumbing union, taking over from his predecessor, Tim Fandel, who retired ... Read more.
The Campaign for Catholic Schools, an advocate for rebuilding Greater Boston’s urban Catholic schools, including those in Dorchester, has elected Gerald V. “Jerry” Sheehan, as the organization’s first-ever Lifetime ... Read more.
More than three dozen alumni of Boston Collegiate Charter School, from classes 2017 through 2024, returned to the Dorchester school last month to enjoy an annual tradition —Alumni Day— on Dec. 20. They mingled and caught ... Read more.
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center has been selected as one of three Massachusetts community health centers to receive an Expanded Hours grant from the US Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The $1 ... Read more.
The controversial MBTA Communities Act is a constitutional law that the attorney general can enforce with legal action, but the measure remains “ineffective” until the Healey administration takes another pass at crafting ... Read more.
Proponents of an adult-use cannabis dispensary in Fields Corner took up their cause for opening in a now-vacant Dorchester Avenue storefront during the Jan. 7 meeting of the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA).
... Read more.Boston Police continue to investigate a stabbing incident in Mattapan Square around 4 a.m. on Jan. 4 in the wake of a report suggesting that the assault stemmed from an after-hours gathering inside a commercial property ... Read more.
Mayor Wu and her family have welcomed a new baby.
"Yesterday at 2pm, Mayor Wu and her husband Conor welcomed Baby Mira Wu Pewarski—arriving at 8lbs, 4oz and 20 inches—to their family and to Boston," a city ... Read more.
Enrollment at the Massachusetts Health Connector is at a record high, with more than 348,000 people accessing coverage through the state's health insurance marketplace, officials said Monday ahead of a key deadline.
... Read more.In a sign of growing unrest in another Massachusetts school district, this time its largest, the Boston Teachers Union plans Thursday to hold informational pickets before school begins at all 116 public schools in the ... Read more.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu filed a new tax relief package Monday to offset increases residents are seeing in tax bills this month, after the Senate last year killed a Boston home rule petition to temper the spikes.
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The state's highest court on Wednesday upheld the controversial MBTA Communities Act as a constitutional law that the attorney general has the power to enforce with legal action, but also ruled that existing guidelines ... Read more.
Just before the holidays, Ironworkers Local 7 members visited Rosie’s Place in Boston’s South End with boxes of donated coats, hats, gloves, and other winter items for those living at the country’s first shelter for women ... Read more.
Last month, as Mayor Wu and city officials met with dozens of people who were able to become first-time homeowners in Boston by receiving financial assistance from the city, she said, “I’m thrilled to celebrate these new ... Read more.
A federal magistrate judge agreed last month that a Dorchester man acted reprehensibly in demanding sex and nude photos from women who moved into one of his “sober houses” in attempts to get clean and should pay damages ... Read more.
What does the year 2025 have in store for the neighborhoods on the south side of Boston?
As a new, but familiar, and, for many, a menacing administration takes power again in Washington, it’s also a mayoral ... Read more.
A new legislative session has arrived, and there are already loads of pressing issues that appear ripe for attention from Gov. Healey, Senate President Karen Spilka, House Speaker Ronald Mariano and the rest of Beacon ... Read more.
Last week’s Reporter included a report on a Dec. 23 event at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 Hall in Lower Mills in which Gov. Healey signed an executive order on ways to increase construction jobs for women and ... Read more.
Turning 70 and dealing with a debilitating back operation has given me the opportunity to reminisce about my early days in Boston and how I learned the culture and politics of the city in my early days here.
I ... Read more.
When landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted—of Central Park fame—moved from New York to Massachusetts 143 years ago, his decision was motivated by potential. Specifically, the potential he saw in a more-than-500-acre ... Read more.
“This city has never been safer, period.”
It’s the sort of pronouncement that makes slightly superstitious newsroom editors and probably a lot of cops, prosecutors, and savvy citizens a bit queasy with the thought ... Read more.
