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Less than one-fifth of Boston’s electorate trickled to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that will bring a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics to the 13-member body. The new faces will include John FitzGerald, who posted a decisive victory over Joel Richards in the race to succeed Frank Baker as the District 3 councillor.
For more than two decades, it was a symbol of decay and disinvestment – a once-bustling, but now-abandoned Boston Police station house left to rot when officers moved to new quarters a few blocks away in 1988. Last Friday, as elected officials and dignitaries from across the city gathered for a ribbon-cutting of a new housing complex dubbed Morton Station Village, the
It was impossible to bury the jubilation brought to the table by hundreds of little girls and young ladies on cheer teams from Boston, Brockton, and Providence who packed into the Madison Park gymnasium on Saturday for their Pop Warner league’s first-ever meet in the intense, growing world of youth cheerleading.
The Fields Corner Civic Association is asking the MBTA to provide more details about the status and integrity of three bridges that carry Red Line trains over neighborhood streets this month. During the group’s Oct. 3 meeting in the Kit Clark Senior building, civic leaders said they want an MBTA official to address their concerns about the bridges on Dorchester Avenue, Geneva
It has been decades since Bessie Gaul could walk from her apartment near Bowdoin-Geneva and get fresh food in a high-quality store. But last Saturday morning, she went shopping with a smile as the long-awaited Dorchester Food Coop (DFC) opened its doors on the ground floor of a new building at 195 Bowdoin St. “I’ve been waiting for this for 54 years,” said Gaul, who was with