A slow but steady trickle of 2,230 voters cast early ballots at one of the ten locations that were opened over the weekend for voting ahead of Boston’s Nov. 4 municipal election.
A state agency has sold a 10-acre parcel of land on the former Mattapan State Hospital property to a development team that plans to build 287 new housing units— the large majority deemed affordable— on the site, known as Olmsted Village. Construction is expected to begin early next year.
Laughter, hip-hop, and the smells of soul food filled the air behind Epiphany School on Sunday as more than 200 people gathered to celebrate the unveiling of a mural celebrating Black joy and youth. The mural, “Breathe Life: 8piphany” by Boston artist Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs, stretches across the school’s rear façade.
Boston voters have eight solid choices for city council-at-large on their ballot next Tuesday, Nov. 4, but there are two candidates that The Reporter recommends in particular.
Voters looking for clarity on where the District 7 candidates stand on issues may go to the polls on Nov. 4 with a few unanswered questions.
Early voting in the Boston’s general election will begin next weekend— Sat., Oct. 25, and Sunday, Oct. 26— at ten locations across the neighborhoods.
Massachusetts residents entering voting booths on Nov. 3 next year will see the names of candidates for state representative, state senate, and members of Congress, in particular, US Sen. Ed Markey and his challengers.
But those elected state and federal offices on the ballot will likely be joined by more than a dozen ballot questions as outside supermarkets across the Commonwealth this fall solicitors have been gathering signatures on behalf of as many as 47 ballot initiatives on topics ranging from promoting transparency in the Legislature, instituting a statewide rent control law, and rolling back the state’s legalization of marijuana.
Parents of students in the Sumner and Philbrick schools in Roslindale were ambivalent in 2022 when Boston Public Schools officials announced the school communities would merge. The district has merged and closed dozens of schools over the last 20 years and the processes have often left parents and students angered and disillusioned.
With Massachusetts facing a critical shortage of primary care providers, community health facilities like Dorchester’s Codman Square Health Center (CSHC) are trying to fill in the gaps in the neighborhood.
Wide-eyed and star-struck, dozens of city kids from the Red Sox Foundation’s Nike RBI League baseball and softball program took their positions at friendly Fenway Park on Sept. 18 for a season-ending showcase sponsored by Fanatics.
Boston’s bike share system is expanding throughout Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, with 20 new Bluebikes stations to be installed in those neighborhoods. City officials hosted an open house on Oct. 1 at the Marshall Community Center, where residents reviewed proposed site maps and offered feedback on potential station sites (see map below for specific locations).
MBTA General Manager Phil Eng has been tapped as the state’s interim transportation secretary effective immediately, filling in a role created Thursday by the resignation of Monica Tibbits-Nutt.
A newly-formed semi-professional men’s soccer team has high hopes for repping Boston’s biggest neighborhood while offering young athletes a new route to compete in “beautiful game.”