CHINATOWN — Lauren Baker, the state’s first lady and a longtime champion of education and programs for young people, was at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown the other day to help the Highland Street Foundation celebrate two of its programs for the young people and families of Boston and Massachusetts. The two Highland Street Foundation initiatives that Baker was celebrating were the TADpole 10, which encourages non-profit groups to utilize the Boston Common…

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DORCHESTER — Word is that the Archdiocese will announce on Saturday new assignments for area priests. First bit of news is that Father John Ronaghan will return to Dorchester to serve as pastor of St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish, which includes St. Margaret’s Church, which Father Ronaghan attended growing up. (He also attended the former St. Margaret’s School.) The parish’s current pastor Father John Currie will run three parishes, we’re told, including St. Peter’s and…

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PHOTO BY BILL BRETT June 27, 2018 – Boston, MA – Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG) announces new entertainment offerings that will arrive at the newly refurbished Emerson Colonial Theatre this fall following this summer’s world premiere pre-Broadway engagement of “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” The opening season welcomes the return of the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein to the historic venue with a two-week holiday engagement of “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.” Tony Award-winner Heather Headley brings…

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PHOTO BY BILL BRETT Jamie Fagan, supported by his family, ran a several-week campaign to raise money in his mother’s name for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Man and Woman of the Year project. COPLEY SQUARE – More than 400 guests attended The Leukemia and Lymphoma Man and Women of the Year Gala, which was held on June 21, 2018 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel. At the gala, which was emceed by NBC10’s Colton…

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