Boston hosted two Veterans’ Day parades Saturday: one to honor the men and women who have served in the military and another to call for an end to war throughout the world.
The Boston Area Gleaners are a non-profit organization located in Cambridge which partners with farms to harvest and collect their surplus crops. They then donate the produce to local hunger relief agencies, including the Greater Boston Food Bank and Food for Free.
November marks the 20th anniversary of Women in STEM Month at the Museum of Science, when the museum hosts events and panels featuring women currently working in fields such as engineering, technology, life sciences and science management.
Boston voters elected Mayor Martin J. Walsh to serve a second, consecutive term as mayor Nov. 7. He defeated District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson by 31 percent, according to the Boston Election Department.
More than 100 people rallied outside the State House Wednesday to demand the protection of over 2,500 Nicaraguans living in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status designation.
The New England Marxism Conference drew in hundreds of socialists Saturday at the First Church in Boston, where they discussed Marxist theory and participated in educational sessions.
Top students from all over the world gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday and Saturday, racing to solve real-world challenges at the MIT Energy Hackathon.
Christmas time in the city began at the Boston Christmas Festival at the Seaport Hotel last weekend, where thousands of guests and hundreds of vendors filled the hotel showroom with holiday decorations, treats and a gingerbread house competition.
A well-known gang member was shot in his car just after 8 p.m. Monday night near the corner of Huntington Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said in a press briefing that the victim was taken to Boston Medical Center and is in critical condition.
Boston submitted its bid for Amazon’s new second headquarters detailed in a 218-page proposal Oct. 19, offering Suffolk Downs as a potential location. The bid is in response to Amazon’s request for a new campus to complement its main headquarters in Seattle.
The Boston Public Library is helping that collection grow by donating almost 200,000 records to The Great78 Project, which is dedicated to preserving historical 78 rpm records. The donated records will travel to Philadelphia, where they will be digitized by George Blood LP before making their way across the country to be preserved by the San Francisco-based Internet Archive.
Volunteers and staff at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center have seen an increase in sexual violence reports in response to allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo social media campaign.
