In Memoriam: Fall 2025, Boston

In Memoriam: Fall 2025

Melvin CornfieldNovember 2, 2024Cornfield, a graduate of the College, specialized in tax law. He served as tax director at NBC and later at its parent company, and in the later part of his career led ...

Clubs, sales and more to do Downriver

What’s Going On is a listing of activities taking place throughout the Downriver community. To submit an event, send an email to downriverlife@thenewsherald.com. List the time, date, location, cost ...

Boston city councilor proposes tighter strip club regulations to prevent ‘Combat Zone’ repeat

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is pushing for a more thorough vetting process for strip clubs, peep shows, and other adult entertainment venues seeking to operate in the downtown and Chinatown, a ...

Life Time’s massive new club marks downtown Boston debut for fitness giant

Life Time has bulked up its Boston presence by opening a massive new athletic club that is aimed at strengthening athletes’ connections, performance and recovery. Life Time opened a nearly ...

There wasn’t a Jewish grief group in Boston for young adults, so this rabbi started one

In Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Everything is Illuminated, a little girl named Brod is so familiar with grief and loss that Foer gives her a title: “Genius of sadness.” Brod sees melancholy everywhere ...

Survivor Rowing Club Heads to Boston for 60th Head Of The Charles Regatta

NEW ORLEANS — This weekend, nearly 3,000 rowing teams will come from around the world to Boston. It's the 60th anniversary of the Head Of The Charles Regatta. And one of the teams going is local. It's ...

Bears QB Caleb Williams invests in NWSL's Boston Legacy

October 9 - Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is the latest investor in National Women's Soccer League expansion club Boston Legacy FC. "Women's sports is a movement, and I admire and respect ...

Bears QB Caleb Williams Makes Major Announcement Coming Out of Bye Week

Caleb Williams added to his already impressive portfolio on October 9, announcing he has become an investor in women’s professional soccer. The Chicago Bears quarterback joined the ownership group of ...

Caleb Williams joins A-list cast of investors in NWSL newcomer Boston Legacy

Bears QB Caleb Williams is an investor in new NWSL club Boston Legacy Football Club. Stephen R. Sylvanie / Imagn Images Caleb Williams knows football. And futbol. The former Heisman Trophy winner and ...

Bears quarterback Caleb Williams invests in NWSL newcomer Boston Legacy

Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams has joined the investor group for the new NWSL team, Boston Legacy FC. Williams joins other prominent sports figures like Aly Raisman, Brad Stevens and Aliyah Boston as ...

Massachusetts High School Football Computer Rankings: September 29, 2025

Another week of the 2025 Massachusetts high school football season has come and gone, and High School On SI has all of the latest computer rankings for each classification as of September 29, 2025.

JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg is running for a US House seat in New York

John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg is making a run for the U.S. House next year. He said Tuesday that he is aiming ...

Enjoy the perfect itinerary for 48 hours in Boston

Boston blends old-world charm with modern energy in a way few cities can match. It offers experiences that appeal to a ...

JFK’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, announces 2026 run for Nadler's seat in Congress

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, announced late Tuesday that he would run for Congress.

Community Building in Boston’s Kid Lit World

Last month, greater Boston children’s book publishers and booksellers gathered for “good old community-building” at the inaugural Kid Lit Night, hosted by Nosy Crow and Charlesbridge Publishing.

Georgia Tech's first football star has a heckuva story to tell

FRECKLED AND BROAD-CHESTED, with fading white-blond hair and a robust mustache, "in first-rate health" from years of ...

Explore iconic houseboat of counterculture visionary for sale in Sausalito CA

Floating at 13 S 40 Dock in Sausalito, California, the “Mirene” has been home to Brand and his entrepreneur wife Ryan Phelan for more than four decades, according to Compass real estate. The ...

Then & Now: Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster

Nathaniel Thayer Dexter, a family descendent, was a key player in the effort to expand the library. He, too, was a prominent lawyer, part of the Boston firm Choate, Hall & Stewart. At the time of his ...

Inside the Library of Congress: Uncovering Stephen Sondheim’s Unfinished Songs

The collection documents songs that made it into Sondheim’s musicals, and it also documents cut or unused songs that were ...

The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence

W hen America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect ...

As conservatives try to remove books from school libraries, Massachusetts lawmakers want to limit when that can happen

The Massachusetts Senate will vote Thursday on legislation that would create a set of rules and restrictions for school ...

Senator Jake Oliveira receives award for library advocacy

State Senator Jake Oliveira (Ludlow-D) has received the Caleb Benjamin Tillinghast Award in recognition of his leadership in strengthening public libraries across the Commonwealth.

Libraries open their archives to train AI chatbots with books spanning centuries of human knowledge

OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research ...