On March 28, a crowd of enthusiastic supporters gathered at the Boston headquarters of Central Boston Elder Services to celebrate this vital institution’s golden anniversary. For 50 years, CBES has been a pillar of the community, providing high-quality supportive programs and services to tens of thousands of older adults and younger disabled residents in Dorchester, Mattapan,
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Sarah-Ann Shaw, who died last week at age 91, blazed a trail for Black women who work in television journalism. But her pioneering legacy goes far beyond that medium and includes all manner of civic and political engagement in her hometown, Boston. When she first appeared on the airwaves as a reporter for WBZ-Channel 4 in 1969, she was truly one of a kind. A native of Roxbury,
The program was launched in response to recent scams perpetrated on Suffolk County residents, including a telephone scam in which callers claimed to be representatives of District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office and a Bitcoin scam that conned an elderly woman in Winthrop out of $35,000.
Decades ago, Christiana Telesford could be found on the pristine Grand Anse Beach in Grenada. These days, the 100-year-old native of Grenada is still making her rounds and keeping active in Dorchester. The nonprofit Central Boston Elder Services (CBES) inducted Telesford, a longtime Dorchester resident who was born on Jan. 21, 1913, and ten other 100-year-old men and women