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About 30 neighbors and business owners gathered at St. Mark’s Church hall on Monday night to discuss a proposed five-story, mixed use development slated for a stretch of Dorchester Avenue near Peabody Square. The building proposal is presently under... Read more
Dawnmarie Salmons, 25, was honored on Tuesday with an award named for Dawnn Jaffier, the youth worker who was tragically killed in a shooting during the Jouvert celebration on Blue Hill Avenue in 2014. The Light of Dawnn Award is bestowed upon unsung... Read more
The MBTA will pump $7.9 million into a repair project that will keep its fleet of PCC trolley cars running on the Mattapan High Speed Line for “the near future” as an independent review of the line’s infrastructure continues this year. T officials say... Read more
TotalCare Home Care Provider on Dudley Street honored Muriel Walker as she celebrated her 100th birthday on Thursday, Feb. 16. The celebration was held at the MLK Towers in Roxbury. Born in Cambridge in 1917, she has resided in Boston for over 90 years.... Read more
Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan dedicated a Forever stamp commemorating the centennial of the birth of our nation’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy on Monday at Dorchester’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The first-day-of-issue... Read more
With many residents frustrated over drivers careening down neighborhood side streets, some individuals and community groups are looking to the city’s Neighborhood Slow Streets program for relief. The traffic-calming initiative transforms multi-block... Read more
A proposed four story mixed-use development on Bowdoin Street was discussed last Thursday night at a public meeting that drew roughly thirty people to the St. Peter’s Teen Center, where several residents raised their concerns about the potential building... Read more
Mayor Martin Walsh on Tuesday announced funding for 10 affordable housing developments across Boston, a nearly $22 million investment to preserve or produce 602 housing units. Dorchester and Mattapan projects account for half of these approvals,... Read more
A Zoning Board of Appeals decision that has green-lighted the demolition of a single-family home to clear the way for a three-story building with six apartments in Ashmont has caused waves in community meetings throughout Dorchester, with residents... Read more
A large crowd gathered at the Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain last Thursday evening (Feb. 2) to address health care, affordable housing, and criminal justice reform. The crowd, which overflowed from the church’s main hall, was made up of more than 800... Read more

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