BACK BAY — 500 guests attended the 140th annual Awards Ceremony and Ball, which was held on Thursday, May 23, 2019 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in the Back Bay. The evening’s emcee was WCVB NewsCenter 5 anchor Maria Stephanos, who helped Boston Fire Commissioner Joe Finn keep things moving during the awards presentations. The honorees included Channel 25 reporter Blair Miller, who has been covering the issue of firefighters diagnosed with cancer while on…

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PHOTO BY BILL BRETT SEAPORT DISTRICT — Bill Brett quipped that if he had to put his money on it, he’d bet that the crews from Boston Fire Department’s Engine 39 and Ladder 18, who would get the first emergency call in South Boston’s Seaport District, could get through this traffic on Seaport Boulevard. But the rest of us will probably just have to sit in hours of traffic. Where can these vehicles go? The…

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ROCKLAND — Hundreds of anxious family and friends packed the auditorium of Rockland High School to watch the two-hour recital performance of students of Bridget’s Dance Studio, which has space in both Norwell and Braintree. The performers ranged in age from 3 years old to young adults. We’ve created a long and full gallery of Bill Brett’s photographs, which show all of the performances. Please take some time to look through them. All photos by…

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BOSTON — More than 400 guests attended the Greater Boston Food Bank’s FreshFest, which raised $1.2 million for the nonprofit. That amount is equal to 3.7 million meals for those who face chronic hunger in Eastern Massachusetts. The GBFB, the largest hunger-relief organization in New England, held this annual signature fundraising event on May 16, 2019 in its 117,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center on South Bay Street in Boston that was transformed for the evening’s…

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COPLEY SQUARE — 400 guests attended The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2019 “Man & Woman of the Year,” which was held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel on Friday, May 17, 2019. Through the event and the efforts of individuals more than $480,000 was raised for research and patient support. This year’s Woman and Man of the Year are Lauren Jones of Dorchester and Dean Stamoulis of Shrewsbury, whose campaigns raised nearly $100,000. The man…

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