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Kenia “KJ” Grubbs has recently been appointed the new executive director of the Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club.

When Carla Gualdron was a sophomore in high school, she sometimes felt like she was spinning her wheels in English class.

For juniors at the Edward M. Kennedy Academy of Health Careers, spring break offered more than just a chance to relax from their academics.

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on a similarly rainy day — thousands gathered at Trinity Church in the Back Bay and marched to Boston Common in commemoration of that monumental event.

In the wake of the closure of Carney Hospital, behavioral health, access to emergency medical services and social elements that support health are among the key recommendations for how to best support health in the community the hospital previously served.

As Massachusetts aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and meet 2050 net-zero goals, the state’s high schoolers are being targeted as a key group to fill pending gaps in the state’s clean energy workforce.

On Friday, April 17, 2025, Illustrator Robert B. Stull, also known as Rob Stull, passed away after an illness.

Receivership staff at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center responded to allegations of financial mismanagement at a hearing about the facility’s receivership, April 16.

The city of Boston’s Office of Small Business and Licensing Board recently held a liquor license information session in Mattapan for entrepreneurs to learn and ask questions about the process.

Edward J. Lewis III has been appointed as senior vice president of institutional advancement at Berklee College of Music.

$500,000 in city grants will go to community-based organizations to support Black men and boys across Boston in a spate of new awards announced last week.

Back in March, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the government agency responsible for funding museums and libraries across the nation was gutted along with several other agencies by an executive order. The agency’s entire staff was put on administrative leave shortly after.