On one of this summer’s few sunny days, Jennifer Johnson walked down Rita Road in Dorchester with a smile on her face, ready to begin one of her favorite activities these days: Door knocking. Johnson, who is running for the open District 3 Council seat, had parked outside St. Brendan Elementary School and crossed the street to talk with residents who were outside their homes,
The deadlines to register to vote or request a mail-in ballot for the upcoming preliminary elections are fast-approaching. Here’s everything to know before heading to the polls.
The race to replace Jon Santiago, who left his 9th Suffolk House seat for a Healey administration post, is underway. Anchored in the South End, the House district’s boundaries stretch down past the South Bay shopping plaza, all the way to Columbia Road. Santiago, a major in the US Army reserve who first won the seat in 2018, resigned several weeks ago to become Gov. Maura
Jennifer Johnson, who has served as president of the Meetinghouse Hill Civic Association and on the board of Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets, plans to run for the City Council’s Dorchester-based District 3 seat. Incumbent Frank Baker has not formally said whether he’s running for another two-year term as a member of the 13-person body. He has held the job since 2012, succeeding
Polls opened across Boston this morning, with voters getting a final opportunity, after early voting and mail-in ballots, to make their mark in state and local primaries. Maura Healey, who does not face a Democratic primary challenger in the race for governor, will appear in Dorchester at 8 a.m., stopping by the Lower Mills branch of the Boston Public Library system, a polling