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Hundreds of families, friends, and teammates of Thomas Lucas, 12, came out last Wednesday night at the Devine Rink for a fundraiser to support him and the Lucas family as the young man battles through treatments for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Thomas’s parents, Tommy and Lori Lucas, indicated that his prognosis was very positive and said Thomas is doing well with his treatments.
Gov. Baker last week signed a $3.76 billion economic development package that includes millions for a new Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center and the Dorchester Field House planned for Columbia Point. The outlays, funded through a state tax surplus and $500 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money, sends $112 million to the MBTA for work and safety
Fields Corner has become the “hot spot” in the city for Bubble Tea and other Asian drinks and desserts, thanks to its cluster of Vietnamese businesses that were well poised to capitalize on an international surge of interest in the market. “I would say Bubble Tea is to Fields Corner what the cannoli is to the North End,” said Jackey West Devine, director of Fields Corner Main
For Maura Healey and Andrea Campbell, Tuesday’s election was a day to set some markers. Healey, a South End resident, easily dispatched her Republican opponent for governor to become the first woman, and the first openly gay person, to be elected to sit in the Corner Office at the State House. Campbell, a Mattapan resident and former Boston City Councillor, trounced her
Facing what parents called an “unexpected pivot” by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (RCAB) regarding the future of St. Brendan’s church and school, scores of students and parents staged a noisy, but peaceful protest on Wednesday morning in front of a Braintree office building that houses RCAB administrative offices, including Cardinal Sean O’Malley. “Leave our School