COPLEY SQUARE — The team working on a permanent Boston memorial for Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. held a reception last night at the Boston Public Library’s Map Room to unveil the designs for the art that will mark King’s history with the city. Among those on hand were Barry Gaither, Rev. Liz Walker, entrepreneur Paul English, and Joyce Linehan, chief of policy for the city of Boston. The public will now have a chance…

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DORCHESTER — More than 300 guests attended Boston Police Department’s Area C-11’s moving ceremony on Saturday to remember and honor those from the station who have died. Those remembered today are Officer Walter E. Harris, Sgt. Diana Green, Officer Thomas Pokaski, Sgt. Joseph Griffin, Officer Bernard Kelly, School Traffic Supervisor Marie Conley, and Auto Room Clerk Mary Brett McCarthy. Among those on hand for the ceremony were Mayor Marty Walsh, Police Commissioner Willie Gross, Father…

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*UPDATED SOUTH BOSTON — NBC 10 Boston anchor Natasha Verma hosted a fashion show fundraiser on Sept. 10 at Publico restaurant in South Boston to raise money for a foundation she started when she was being treated for cancer last year. Now in remission, Verma, 24, was treated for stage 2 Hodgkin Lymphoma last year and has since returned to work on television channel. Since her treatment, she started the Verma Foundation to make “Cap…

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BOSTON — 1,400 hundred guests braved colder than normal weather on Sept. 9 for the annual Le Diner en Blanc on Boston’s City Hall Plaza. (Last year’s edition was on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.) How it works: the location of the dinner is kept secret until just hours before the dinner happens, all attendees must register in advance, and they must wear white. For a list of those who organized this year’s dinner, check out…

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