PHOTO BY BILL BRETT The students in the O’Bryant school’s PUSH-Up Program are seeking donations so that they can participate in a national conference. You can donate through this link. BOSTON — John Daley, a Spanish teacher and director of the PUSH-Up Peer Leader program, is seeking help to get some the students at the John D. O’Bryant Mathematics and Science school in Boston to an anti-drug conference in Maryland and Washington, D.C. The nine…

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BOSTON — It’s safe to say that Bill Brett has met tens of thousands of people in the last decade and a half that he has published six books. Among the many remarkable people met in that time, a few stand out. One is Kai Leigh Harriott, who was just 3 years old when she was struck by a stray bullet in 2003 as she played on the porch of her Dorchester home. The bullet…

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SOUTH BOSTON — Some 600 swimsuit wearing souls took the annual Polar Plunge into the water off of M Street Beach in South Boston for the annual L Street Brownies New Year’s Day polar swim. It is one country’s oldest such charity plunges going on for more than 116 years. With air temperatures topping 50 degrees, the plungers faced a significantly different challenge than last year when the air temperature was just 1 degree above…

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Photo by Bill Brett Just before Christmas, Bill took this photo of 313 Congress Street in Boston, which pretty much summed up the holiday transformation of Boston from daily bustle to holiday quiet. FROM BILL AND THE WHOLE TEAM: BOSTON — As we all start to get back into the daily schedule and look to a new year, the team at Bill Brett Boston wants to say “Thank you” for all your support and welcoming…

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