The Boston Licensing Board decided Thursday to take no immediate action on a request from the owner of Aguasvivas Market, 926 Morton St. in Mattapan, to add Caribbean and Latin American beers and wines to his bodega offerings.
The annual Crew Love basketball tournament in Harambee Park at Franklin Field takes place this weekend with help from Jaylen Brown’s 741 Performance company.
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins was arrested today in Florida and will face federal charges related to an alleged extortion scheme involving a cannabis company in which he was an investor.
It was a day filled with “Yee haws,” “Howdys,” and line-dancing into the sunset at Rev. Loesch-Wainwright Park in Dorchester on Sunday afternoon with the 3rd Annual Ice Cream Social Rodeo event.
A few stray observations as we ease toward the ides of August.
In hosting its second annual Dunk Tank and Cold Plunge fundraiser on Friday, July 25, College Hype helped to raise more than $10,000 in support of the Matt Brown Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping individuals and families affected by spinal cord injuries.
The board of directors at Action for Boston Community Development named Dorchester resident Candice Caines-Francis as board chair and approved the election of other officers at their June meeting.
It’s time to sharpen those pencils: Dorchester’s Isaque ‘Brother Ike’ Rezende and radio and record-store legend Skippy White – who brought soul and rhythm & blues music to generations of Bostonians – are delivering music education classes with their radio show and podcast, “Soul School.”
By Chris Lisinski.
Two months after bar advocates stopped taking new cases to demand pay raises, legislative leaders last week rolled out a take-it-or-leave-it proposal that some dissatisfied attorneys quickly slammed as insufficient.
Zoo New England will have a new leader in place come the end of September in the person of Stephanie Brinley, who will succeed John Linehan as president and CEO of the organization, which includes the Franklin Park facility.
The first votes in Boston’s preliminary election for mayor will be cast in three weeks and candidate Josh Kraft is considered a lock to earn a spot on November’s ballot to challenge incumbent Michelle Wu in a head-to-head contest for the city’s top job.
The Walgreen’s in Codman Square will close permanently on Sept. 10, according to a letter sent to customers on July 28.
It was just after 9:30 a.m. last on Thursday when Judge Jonathan Tynes entered the First Session courtroom of the Dorchester division of Boston Municipal Court as a bailiff instructed the three dozen or so people waiting on benches to rise.
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday awarded a “community space” liquor license to Sorrel & Lime, 986 Blue Hill Ave.
Dorchester’s Strand Theatre served as the stage for a mayoral forum focused on arts and culture issues on July 30. The event, moderated by Jared Bowen, host of GBH’s “The Culture Show,” was hosted by Create the Vote Boston Coalition—a nonpartisan group organized by MASSCreative.