Author: Sally Yuan
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At The Boston Home, customized repairs on wheelchairs support mobility, dignity
Jody Gold, who uses a power wheelchair, doesn’t drive it with her hands, she drives it with her head. Gold, a resident at The Boston Home on Dorchester Avenue since 2017, has multiple sclerosis (MS) and is unable to walk…
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Fairmount Line electric train plan faces delay, raising concerns along corridor
The first of the battery-electric multiple-unit trains, known as BEMUs, is now expected to arrive for testing in 2029, and service is expected to begin in 2030… A long-awaited plan to bring battery-powered trains and more frequent service to the…
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Businesses urged to join city’s World Cup guide before Sunday deadline
Businesses still have time to join Boston’s FIFA World Cup Neighborhood Business Guide before Sunday’s deadline. City officials are urging local shops, restaurants and bars to sign up for a guide meant to steer soccer fans into Boston’s neighborhoods. The FIFA World…
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‘Legacy’ Boston businesses honored for staying rooted in neighborhood life
When Elizabeth Deveney Frazier walks through cemeteries across Boston, she can often recognize her family’s work before she sees the name. “I can walk around any cemetery in Boston, and I can pick out stones that we made,” said Frazier,…
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A Q&A with Katie Nolan, newly-named Dorchester mayor, about Dot Day and home
‘I don’t ever want to leave this area,’ says Katie Nolan.. Katie Nolan has been going to the Dorchester Day Parade for as long as she has been alive. Born in February 1998, she notes that she was at the parade that…
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Weston’s Knox: The K-9 whose game of fetch keeps community safer
On a dark night in Belmont, police officers were convinced a man had tossed a handgun near a playground where two people had been shot. Officer Mike Rizzitello of the Weston police department unclipped Knox, his German shepherd K-9, and…