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The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place.

The board also gave the 60-seat ... Read more.

The board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) signed off on plans for the $5 billion transformation of several Columbia Point parcels known as “Dorchester Bay City.”

The massive project spans 36.26 ... Read more.

Less than halfway through her first term, Mayor Wu this week announced she is running for another four years inside City Hall.

She didn't say those exact words while she was in press scrums, in front of business ... Read more.

It has been one year since President Biden and Democrats in Congress passed historic clean energy and climate justice legislation that has the power to reshape the future of our nation—from our environment to our economy ... Read more.

When you’re planning a milestone anniversary event for your Dorchester newspaper, it only makes sense to turn to the people who have built their business and brand around the Dorchester name, too.

So when Reporter ... Read more.

For more than 30 years, the nostalgic image of kids working their paper routes has been a reality in Dorchester: Each week the Reporter is distributed by local kids to their customers around the neighborhood. It’s a ... Read more.

Anytime you entered Baby Nat’s Fruitland on American Legion Highway, at the nexus of Mattapan and Roslindale, you knew you would be getting multiple bargains. Now, after one family’s almost 50 years in business, the ... Read more.

In 1983, Ed and Mary Forry launched a monthly newspaper from a makeshift office in their Lower Mills home. Forty years later, The Reporter is still in business and the Forry’s vision of creating a quality hometown ... Read more.

You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline.

Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus- ... Read more.

Celebrating the 40th birthday of the Dorchester Reporter has transported me back to 1983, when Ed and Mary Forry began publishing their newspaper. I was still early in my tenure as executive director of the Codman Square ... Read more.

With a promise to bring readers “the news and values around the neighborhood” in each edition, The Reporter hit the streets of Dorchester for the first time forty years ago this week — Sept. 1983. In a special 40-page ... Read more.

September 1983.

Ronald Reagan was in his first term as president and the denizens of the Eire Pub already had a portrait of the Gipper – who popped in for a beer in ’82 – framed on their Adams ... Read more.

Open Streets Dorchester, take two: City officials will for the second consecutive year temporarily shut down Dorchester Avenue to vehicle traffic between Ashmont Street and Freeport Street this coming Sunday (Sept. 17) ... Read more.

Representatives from the US Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration joined members of the Massachusetts Building Trades Recovery Council at the Ironworkers Local 7 hall in South Boston ... Read more.

Since the start of the pandemic, banks have closed more than three dozen branches in Boston and two hundred more across Massachusetts.

WBUR ... Read more.

With the shutdown of the Red Line’s Ashmont and Mattapan branches a month away, top MBTA officials last Wednesday toured the JFK/UMass transit hub, which is slated to receive a coat of paint and other upgrades during the ... Read more.

Dozens of classic cars were on display at Dot Park’s Adams Street fields – everything from a 1946 Ford convertible to a 1950 Chevy truck (in red) to a 2012 Boss 302 speedster – as part of last Sunday’s 14th annual ... Read more.

The Boston Collegiate Charter School celebrated the completion of a $1.3 million expansion project during a ceremony on Tuesday of this week at its Mayhew Street campus. The lottery-based public charter serves grades 5-12 ... Read more.

St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children on Jones Hill filed plans with the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) on Tuesday that call for extensive renovation and new construction on its 2.4-acre campus along ... Read more.

The history starts with a dream and becomes a nightmare, only to reawaken as a halting voice of trauma or equanimity steeped in regret. Such was the “moral arc” of Boston’s “long road to school desegregation” in the PBS “ ... Read more.

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