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Shop, Sip, & Save at the South Boston Spring Stroll May 9
Join the South Boston Chamber of Commerce and South Boston NDC in celebrating the arrival of spring at the eagerly anticipated annual Spring Stroll on Thursday, May 9. Kicking off at 4 p.m., take a leisurely evening walk along Broadway and its surrounding areas to indulge in a delightful array of discounts, refreshments, and special promotions offered by our local small businesses and restaurants. This is the perfect opportunity to do your Mother’s Day shopping!
Marblehead mother is an open book about her sobriety
BOSTON — Laura McKowen has been sober for more than a decade, but her difficult journey to recovery took years and an escalating series of crises caused by her alcohol use. After her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, the Marblehead mom spent a year working on her sobriety before she was finally able to stop drinking for good. McKowen’s first book We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life hit store shelves in early 2020. She gained a significant following on social media and soon launched her own online sobriety support community The Luckiest Club. In 2023, McKowen released her second book Push Off from Here: 9 Essential Truths to Get You Through Life. She’s now working on a third book and is encouraged by the notable change in the social stigma that surrounds sobriety.
Dorchester's Comfort Kitchen is a James Beard 'Best New Restaurant' semi-finalist
Comfort Kitchen, in the heart of Dorchester, was recently named a semi-finalist in the prestigious James Beard Award “Best New Restaurant” category in New England. The restaurant opened its doors just over a year ago and has already become one of the city's premier dining destinations. “It's really...
Winning $25k a year for life ‘Lucky for Life’ Mass. lotto ticket near expiration
A winning lottery ticket, worth $25,000 a year for life, that’d been sold in Massachusetts during a “Lucky for Life” drawing last year is about to expire. The winning numbers for the drawing, which was held on May 17, 2023, were 15, 22, 28, 29 and 41, with Lucky Ball: 6. The winning ticket sold in Massachusetts for the drawing matched the first five numbers on the ticket.
Mayor Wu and BPD Commissioner Long Join Locals for Coffee and Conversation in West Roxbury
Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu and BPD Commissioner Gregory Long were spotted sipping joe with the locals at Billings Field in West Roxbury, marking the Boston Parks Department's inaugural neighborhood coffee event this spring. It was a morning not just about caffeine kicks but also about community building, as residents gathered under sun-kissed skies to chat up city officials.
Spring in the Blue Hills: Beavers, skunk cabbage and spicebush. What you can see, smell
QUINCY − Every so often the city's monthly Environmental Treasures program has a daytime walk on a Friday, popular with seniors and retirees. Last week's adventure showed how easy it can be to get away from it all in the Blue Hills. The walk, called Signs of Spring, was...
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