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Monday brought a new first in Boston’s political annals when Michelle Wu delivered a healthy baby girl, Mira Wu Pewarski, the third child for ... Read more.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) will celebrate Dorchester bookstore co-owner Porsha Olayiwola and her work as the City of Boston’s Poet Laureate with her final reading in the role next Thursday (Jan. 23) at 7 p.m ... 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 Adams Street Library in Dorchester is one of three finalists for the Boston Society of Architecture’s (BSA) annual Harleston Parker People’s Choice Award, named as a memorial for a well-known architect. The award, ... 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.
In the ongoing fallout from the Carney Hospital closure, and with a rush of new patients looking for health providers, Dot House Health finances are being squeezed. One casualty in the near term is the center’s swimming ... Read more.
The federal Department of Transportation announced several large grants to Massachusetts for transportation and transit projects last week, including a $2 million award for planning and design work at JFK-UMass MBTA ... 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.
As Boston’s property tax burden falls more heavily on residential owners, city officials are scrambling to provide some relief, but with little sign of help from a quick turnaround in commercial values or growth.
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Newton-based Wingate Companies, through an affiliate, has acquired the historic Baker Chocolate Factory apartment complex in Lower Mills for $41 million. The purchase, brokered by the realtor CBRE for the seller, Makor ... Read more.
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 ... Read more.
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Last October, the Boston City Council — at the behest of Councillor Erin Murphy and other council colleagues— asked for full accounting of ... 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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