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A dilapidated house that once loomed ominously on the edge of the Boys and Girls Clubs campus at 20 Deer St. was demolished on Monday morning. The two-family dwelling house— which had sat vacant for the last 20 years— was ... Read more.
Residents in several of Boston’s historic houses are sounding alarms over new around-the-clock activity at the Verizon Fios facility on Enterprise Street bordering the Dorchester Historical Society (DHS) properties along ... Read more.
After parents, community members, and public education advocates had urged state education officials to intervene in the city’s plan to close the Mattahunt Elementary School, the Board of Elementary and Secondary ... Read more.
Roughly a dozen community activists and uniformed C-11 police officers knocked on doors and talked to neighbors in the St. Mark’s Area about some of the recent acts of violence in the community as part of a peace walk on ... Read more.
The New England Foundation for the Arts’ Creative City program will stage the world premiere of “Running in Stillness,” a dance-theatre performance by Roxbury’s Marsha Parrilla and Danza Orgánica this weekend in Dudley ... Read more.
Dorchester native and Boston City Singers alumna Gillian Chase has been awarded a Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship to further her studies at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The scholarship is awarded ... Read more.
Despite a strong economy and booming population growth, high costs of living and low rates of housing production in Greater Boston are disproportionately impacting those already living in poverty, according to a Boston ... Read more.
The Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner football program hopes to send two of its teams to compete in a national tournament in Orlando this month— if the group cane raise the tens of thousands of dollars they need to fund the ... Read more.
Community members and public education advocates on Tuesday urged state officials to halt a city plan to close the Mattahunt Elementary School. Earlier this month, Boston officials announced plans to close the school, ... Read more.
A short circuit in a power strip sparked a four-alarm fire at 31 Harlem St. that sent one firefighter to the hospital, the Boston Fire Department reports.
Firefighters responded at 12:40 p.m. to the ... Read more.
State Police report that a Volvo S60 flew off I-93 near the Morrissey Boulevard exit, landing on a Honda HR-V on Morrissey Boulevard, around 12:40 a.m. on Sunday.
The driver of the Volvo, a Chatham man ... Read more.
With a renewed focus on expanding and developing historically underserved areas of Boston while also identifying zones for increased commercial growth, the mayor’s administration last week rolled out a draft report for ... Read more.
Mayor Marty J. Walsh is ready to talk about racism in Boston, a discussion he says has been long avoided but is “the right conversation at the right time” following the “tough” results of the presidential election.
... Read more.Boston Public School’s 10-year Master Facilities Plan, Build BPS, is still in need of further research and contextualizing before its release in early 2017, school officials told city councillors at a hearing on Tuesday ... Read more.
José Mateo Ballet Theatre brings its treasured production of The Nutcracker back to Dorchester this season for an extended run (Dec.9-18) at the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner. The holiday classic inspired by Tchaikovsky ... Read more.
UMass Boston’s Terry Condon has announced that 2016 will be her final season as a head coach of the university’s women’s volleyball team. During her coaching career, Condon mentored countless athletes while helping to ... Read more.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board last Thursday gave its greenlight to three Dorchester projects, paving the way for new senior housing, residences for the formerly homeless, and a car dealership ... Read more.
A key commercial building at the southern entrance to Adams Village has been sold to a new owner for $3.2 million. The two-story corner structure at 512 Gallivan Blvd. remains the village’s most prominent— and ... Read more.
The Boston School Committee voted last Wednesday to accept Superintendent Tommy Chang’s proposal to shut down the struggling Mattahunt Elementary School next June 30 and reopen it as an Early Education Center the next day ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man was found shot around 2:55 a.m. on Saturday at 195 Normandy St. and that he was declared dead at the scene.
The man was in his late 20s, police say.
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