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A family-run Italian restaurant in a Boston suburb will close after nearly two decades. Olivadi in Norwood will permanently shut down on Oct. 10 after 18 years of service, the Delapa family wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday. “Olivadi opened in 2008 when our father, Anthony Delapa, set out...

Olivadi, the family-run Italian restaurant that has anchored downtown Norwood for nearly two decades, will permanently close on October 10, 2026. The DeLapa family announced the closure in a Facebook post, thanking guests for 18 years of support and inviting the community back for one last meal before the doors shut fo

Get our free local reporting delivered straight to your inbox. No noise, no spam — just clear, independent coverage of Marblehead. Sign up for our once-a-week newsletter. Asbestos abatement and demolition crews are working through the lower level of the Mary A. Alley Municipal Building. It is the first of four phases i

A street in Malden, Massachusetts, is closed after concrete fell from an overpass. Police announced Wednesday night that Dartmouth Street was closed between Ramsdell Road and Garnet Street. Concrete from the Florence Street bridge dropped onto the roadway and parked vehicles. The city said Thursday afternoon that the r

Boston College bought Education First’s (EF) Boston campus for $40 million, according to documents from the Massachusetts Land Records released Tuesday. The parcel, located at 200 Lake St., sits at just over 760,000 square feet, or nearly 18 acres, and is across from the University’s Brighton Campus. The property is am

BOSTON, MA — A 17-year-old male was arrested and a loaded firearm was recovered following a foot pursuit in the area of Garfield Avenue on Wednesday evening. Officers assigned to the Youth Violence Strike Force made the arrest at about 7:25 p.m. on September 16, 2026. Officers were conducting...

Arlington lawmakers are eyeing efforts to extend the MBTA's Red Line in an effort to help residents frustrated by traffic congestion. But first, lawmakers will need to address a 46-year-old law. "We'll choke in traffic if we don't get better transit in town," said Paul Schlichtman, an Arlington Town Meeting...

A forensic psychiatrist hired by state prosecutors said on Thursday that while Jason Eaton has struggled with mental health issues, he doesn’t have a psychotic disorder and wasn’t legally insane when he shot three young men in November 2023. “It wasn’t caused by an organic psychotic disease, rather...

A man was rushed to the hospital after being struck by a vehicle while riding a bicycle in Salem.

The mayor’s office for the town of Braintree responded to a Boston 25 investigates report uncovering charges against a police officer accused of harassing his girlfriend with department technology.