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Corey Thomas was recently named chair of the board of directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

For the past four years, La Parada Dominican Kitchen in Egleston Square has been dishing up mofongo, chofan — a Dominican fried rice — and bucketfuls of beans. Now, the restaurant is preparing to start serving wine and beer, as well as an expanded menu, after being awarded a liquor license, part of 225 new permits allocated under legislation passed by the State House.

A new online tool launched by the state Feb. 14 lets veterans estimate how much they can receive in financial benefits.

Across the city, the BPHC is holding free clinics, offering residents the opportunity to get a flu or COVID shot in response to an “extreme uptick” in cases, said Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, the city’s public health commissioner.

For Nashira Baril, her proposed project to redevelop four parcels in a residential area near Nubian Square would mean the next step toward the completion of a dream to bring a birth center into Boston, plus the creation of a permanent home for five other nonprofit organizations.

Angela Johnson, Senior Director of Philanthropy at Year Up United, was recently named Chair of the Board of Directors for Old North Illuminated, a non-profit organization whose primary focus is preserving Boston’s Old North Church Historic Site.

Under bright, colorful lights, to the beat of music, high schoolers across Boston gathered to kick off a new opportunity to make their voices heard.

Fletcher Houston Wiley, known citywide as “Flash” Wiley, an attorney, civic leader and a leading member of Boston’s business community, died on Feb. 7 at 82.

Just before demolition began on the George Robert White Memorial Stadium last Friday, activists gathered Thursday evening at Lena Park Community Development Corporation’s American Legion Highway building to discuss an alternate vision for the stadium.

Under a campaign called the Live Long and Well Agenda, the city is looking to target overdose deaths, cardiometabolic diseases and preventable cancers — conditions that disproportionately affect communities of color and that the commission has identified as the leading causes of premature death in those communities of color.

A new college pathway initiative being launched by Boston Public Schools will aim to connect its students with those opportunities. The program, called “Beyond Possible,” will offer students hands-on experience in computer science with college-level classes.

The working group assigned by Gov. Maura Healey to figure out what to do with the shuttered Carney Hospital is planning to look more broadly at the roots of health disparities in the Dorchester community.