Chris Worrell’s knock at the door was answered with some hesitation by a neighbor on Nonquit Street in Uphams Corner last Saturday evening. Standing inside was a woman who was listening as Worrell – who is running for the open seat in the Fifth Suffolk District vacated by state Rep. Liz Miranda – stood on the doorstep and explained who he was and why he was asking for her
Mayor Michelle Wu is wading into Massachusetts primaries big and small, backing a transportation advocate running for the statewide job of auditor, supporting a Boston planning agency aide to represent parts of Dorchester and Roxbury in the Legislature, and swinging behind the incumbent Suffolk County sheriff. Wu’s endorsements in contested primaries could be seen as a test of
Brian Worrell won 62 percent of the vote on Tuesday to claim the District 4 city council seat that will be vacated by Andrea Campbell in January. The 38-year-old first-time candidate defeated former state Rep. Evandro Carvalho by winning all but two of the 32 precincts that make up the Dorchester-Mattapan district. Watching the results from his family home on Hewins Street a
Fiddleheads, asparagus and ramps!
Itâs late May, and spring is happening for real in the 413. No more False Spring, Foolâs Spring, Mud Season or the Ides of Dirty Snow.
You can tell, because the produce departments at Berkshire Food Co-op and Wild Oats are ramping up for the parade of fresh vegetables that are poking out of the warm earth regionwide.
âIt s almost like my taste buds come out of hibernation,â says Devorah Sawyer, a sworn veggie lover and marketing manager at the co-op in Great Barrington.
The way she figures it, lots of people eat the same way in the dead of winter: tons of carbs, cheese and not a lot of color.
A Canaan, Conn., man is suing the town of Sheffield and police officers who he says violated his civil rights during a stop in 2016 in which he claims he was injured. FACEBOOK
SHEFFIELD â A Connecticut man who says Sheffield Police injured him during a traffic stop nearly five years ago continues to press a legal claim against the town and three of its police officers, alleging that they violated his civil rights.
James Cecchinato, of Canaan, Conn., filed the suit June 3, 2019, in U.S. District Court in Springfield, alleging that his rights were violated when police, suspecting that he was driving a stolen car, pointed their guns at him and made him lie on the ground as they searched his 1997 Honda Accord, according to court documents.