Thanksgiving weekend marked the opening of this season’s production of “The Nutcracker” for the Boston Ballet, but the holiday season also marks more than nine months of contract negotiations between the Ballet and its dancers.
A coalition of civic organizations are calling for Massachusetts to implement automatic voter registration, or AVR, to help increase voter turnout after only 32 percent of registered Boston voters cast a ballot in this month’s mayoral election, according to the Boston Election Department.
The time capsule is a large silver container that participants filled with letters and objects that represent why they want to stop climate change. Volunteers will bury it at the Food Project’s Roxbury Garden, an urban garden on the Dudley Land Trust. The date for the burial has not been set yet. It will be dug up in 50 years, in 2067.
Dozens of protesters and around 100 counter-protesters gathered on Boston Common Saturday for the Rally for the Republic, an event held in support of free speech that resulted in three arrests.
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.
