Boston Police command staff led by Commissioner Michael Cox met with neighbors in the basement of the Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church last Thursday night for a briefing on crime trends in the Area C-11 district, which includes much of Dorchester eest of Washington Street. The meeting, billed as a “Community Compstat,” drew about 50 people, along with a group of 20 uniformed officers.
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Veteran Boston journalist and election expert Chris Lovett joined Bill Forry from the Dorchester Reporter and DotLife host Erin Caldwell to highlight the week’s news, including election results, Mayor Wu’s State of the Schools address, Savin Bar + Kitchen takes down its Whitey/Flemmi decor, and what’s next for Morrissey Boulevard.
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The Boston Fire Department reports all seven residents of the two-family home safely evacuated.
When the Charles, Mystic, and Neponset River Watershed Association (NepRWA) released its 2024 water quality report card grades for Boston’s urban rivers last month, the Neponset was assigned a B+ with a score of 82.3 percent, which indicates the water is almost always safe for swimming and boating.
The Rev. Pearline James and her husband Evan immigrated to Boston from Jamaica in 1971 as part of an early wave of Jamaican arrivals in the city. They were the first to purchase a home on Mattapan’s Malta Street on the banks of the Neponset River.
Steve Poftak, a onetime CEO and general manager of the MBTA from January 2019 to January 2023, has been selected as the next CEO and president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau.
Having attended law school in Haiti, she is working toward becoming a producer or entertainment lawyer to support the next generation of artists.
Decades of advocacy, land-takings, policy-making and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have created the 8.2-mile Neponset Greenway as we know it today. Here’s a brief look back at key milestones.
By Sunday, as talks percolated in Washington about a potential deal to reopen the federal government, both Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Gov. Maura Healey were promising more SNAP litigation
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