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Florian Hall, the firefighter’s union headquarters on Hallet Street, is familiar to generations of Dorchester people as a gathering place for family functions and neighborhood benefit “times.” This week, the Neponset ... Read more.

Karen Kinsel struggled to stay warm last winter. The 66-year-old Dorchester woman made do with electric space heaters when she couldn’t afford to replace her outdated furnace. It got even harder financially when the ... Read more.

A coalition of eight existing non-profit organizations based in Fields Corner plan to streamline and better coordinate their services, thanks a funding boost from Boston Children’s Hospital. The new group— Fields Corner ... Read more.

About 950 schools in Massachusetts are administering weekly pooled Covid-19 tests to about 300,000 teachers, students and staff, Gov. Baker said Friday from a Newburyport school.

The Nock-Molin Middle School is ... Read more.

John Barros will join the race for Mayor of Boston on Thursday morning after much speculation about a potential bid.

Barros, 47, stepped down as Boston’s chief of Economic Development last week amid transitions ... Read more.

Starting March 11, teachers, early educators and school staff members will be able to try to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments through any of the state's 170 vaccination sites and mass vaccination sites plan to ... Read more.

Rep. Jon Satigano— who jumped into Boston's race for Mayor on Feb. 22— raised more than $270,000 in February, a healthy haul that gives him ... Read more.

A woman who allegedly abandoned her newborn son in a Lower Mills trash barrel last Friday afternoon was charged with attempted murder and reckless endangerment in Dorchester court on Monday. Marie Merisier, 33, was ... Read more.

In a season disrupted by Covid-19, Dorchester Youth Hockey’s Under-12 Girls team has cause for celebration this week: They didn’t just play against all-boys and co-ed teams in the Boston Mayor’s Cup Youth Hockey ... Read more.

Florian Hall, the firefighter’s union headquarters on Hallet Street, is familiar to generations of Dorchester people as a gathering place for family functions and neighborhood benefit “times.” This week, the Neponset ... Read more.

At-large City Councillor Annissa Essaibi George on Monday kicked-off a 10-day “Get Boston Back to Business” tour in Dorchester, talking to local merchants in Grove Hall and Fields Corner to get their input on what types ... Read more.

A woman was arraigned Monday on charges of attempted murder and reckless endangerment of a child for the way prosecutors say she abandoned her newborn son in a trash barrel outside Pat's Pizza a few doors down and not ... Read more.

Boston moved into a new phase of eased-up pandemic restrictions on Monday as children from pre-K to Grade 3 returned to classrooms for the first time in a nearly a year and restaurants and other indoor businesses faced ... Read more.

An orthodontist who operates a dental practice on Dorchester Avenue has been hit with a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general that claims he has been purposely “keeping children in braces for longer than medically ... Read more.

About 7,900 Boston Public Schools students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through third grade will be invited to return to classrooms next week for the first time in nearly a year as the district moves ahead with a plan ... Read more.

Albert Brown, 17, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment on Friday on charges he shot Tasjahnaya Dance to death at Bowdoin and ... Read more.

A newborn baby was found dumped in a trash barrel on a Dorchester Avenue sidewalk this afternoon and was rushed from the scene — alive and apparently okay— thanks to the fast action of a passerby who alerted EMTs to the ... Read more.

One of Dorchester‘s most acclaimed and critically important youth service agencies will close its doors permanently this weekend.

Dorchester Youth Collaborative (DYC), located in the heart of Fields Corner, will ... Read more.

Since its creation, the Boston Resiliency Fund has granted $34.15M to 377 organizations; Grantmaking to pause in anticipation of mayoral transition

Yesterday Mayor Martin Walsh and the ... Read more.

Mayor Walsh offered updates on the city’s Covid-19 response on Thursday, urging Bostonians to continue to get tested for the virus while the state-led effort to distribute vaccine shots begins to penetrate deeper into the ... Read more.

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