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When Liz Gomes’s son Mason was diagnosed as autistic, the doctor told her that the best hope for him would be to secure a spot at the Joseph Lee K-8 on Talbot Avenue.

Mason is now 12 and more verbal than doctors ... Read more.

Bernadine Lormilus has been teaching the third grade at the John Winthrop Elementary School in Dorchester for just a year, but in that time she has made a remarkable difference keeping her students up to date on current ... Read more.

Jim Judge, a native of Dorchester and the son of a Boston Police officer and a school librarian, has been named the new president and CEO of Eversource Energy, the utility company that serves 3.6 million customers ... Read more.

More than $82 million is specifically allocated for Dorchester infrastructure under Mayor Martin Walsh’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017, including improvements to libraries, playgrounds, parks, and schools.

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Mayor Martin Walsh has allocated an additional $1.3 million to the city’s latest budget to focus attention on the homeless, the administration announced Tuesday.

Housing advocates, who say the money ... Read more.

City Councillor At-Large Annissa Essaibi-George and four of her colleagues heard emotional testimony on Jones Hill Tuesday evening at the second hearing of the new Committee on Homelessness, Mental Health, and Recovery at ... Read more.

Twelve years ago Andy Schroeder and Debbie Munson bought a one-family home near Ashmont Hill. They fell in love with the neighborhood, joined the local civic group, and became bike and park advocates. But the house cost a ... Read more.

An angry city licensing head on Tuesday ordered the Chez Vous roller rink to work with police on a new security plan, after hearing details of a Feb. 12 incident in which a group of 14- and 15-year-old girls coming out of ... Read more.

The Martin Richard Foundation is organizing a community clean-up, a memorial ceremony in Peabody Square and a three-mile run to commemorate the third anniversary of ... Read more.

A helicopter equipped with radiation-sensing technology will make several low passes over the Boston Marathon route later this week to measure naturally occurring background radiation ahead of the 120th Boston Marathon ... Read more.

A Hyde Park man is charged with shooting a man over an argument he initially had nothing to do with inside the T-Mobile store on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square Wednesday afternoon, the Suffolk County District ... Read more.

Three Democrats have already lined up to run for the 7th Suffolk District House seat, which veteran Rep. Gloria Fox will relinquish this fall after more than 30 years representing Roxbury on Beacon Hill.

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Dorchester spoken-word artist U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is just one of more than a dozen Massachusetts female artists and ensembles who will gather at Hibernian Hall this Friday and Saturday evening for the Third Annual “We ... Read more.

Boston’s building boom has triggered furious growth in the city’s culinary scene with new restaurants popping up across the neighborhoods.

The city’s public vocational high school – Madison Park Technical ... Read more.

General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will address students at the Boston College High School’s 153rd commencement on May 22.

Gen. Dunford is the nation’s highest-ranking military ... Read more.

A proposal for a mixed-use, five-story building at 1943 Dorchester Ave. in Peabody Square faced pushback from community members at its first public airing Monday evening.

Attendees at the Boston ... Read more.

Former City Councillor At-Large Stephen Murphy is taking his re-election loss last November in stride and pursuing the suddenly hotly contested post for Suffolk Register of Deeds. In a conversation with the Reporter this ... Read more.

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