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There’s more news on the suddenly booming car business front in Dorchester this week. A popular auto dealership in Neponset will change hands next Monday if all goes according to plan. The Shrewsbury-based Sentry Auto ... Read more.

The dictionary says that a “figment” exists only in someone’s imagination, but producers of this weekend’s FIGMENT Boston disagree.

This free participatory arts festival is totally tangible: one might even go so ... Read more.

Incoming Cristo Rey teacher Maria Chal, 27, has been selected by the highly competitive Knowles Science Teaching Foundation’s to be a teaching fellow. She will be one of 34 early-career science and math teachers selected ... Read more.

The newest brewery on the block has some Dorchester faces at the helm, Dorchester teams behind it, and “Dorchester” thrown up on metal script across its facade for good measure.

The Dorchester Brewing Company ... Read more.

A Dorchester woman who worked as a nurse practitioner was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court last week after she was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly writing illegal prescriptions for painkillers for friends and ... Read more.

Parts of an upcoming, not-yet-titled movie are currently being filmed at locations in the Ashmont/Adams neighborhood, causing parts of Ashmont Street near the T station to experience traffic diversions this week. The ... Read more.

They used to brush silently past one another, scurrying straight-eyed toward a table of familiar faces.

But now at the Codman Square Health Center dining room, employees mix freely with Codman Academy students who ... Read more.

Mice, cockroaches, mold, shut-off heat, no electricity, jammed doors, open gasoline canisters. This is what we live with, said the tenants of several dilapidated Dorchester and Mattapan properties as they loudly protested ... Read more.

Massachusetts was well represented and putting forth a unified face after two days of speeches at an initially fractious Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that ended with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, ... Read more.

A fast-moving fire caused by careless disposal of smoking material destroyed a multi-family home on Jones Hill on Tuesday afternoon, displacing residents and prompting a huge response from the Boston Fire Department. ... Read more.

Boston Police in Area C-11 will host a free juvenile boot camp from August 15-19, 8-10a.m. each day for boys and girls ages 13-16. Spots are limited. For additional info and to sign up please contact the C-11 Community ... Read more.

The MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board today approved the ground lease at Mattapan Station to the partnership ... Read more.

Squinting out the window onto the sidewalks of Adams Corner through thin, rectangular spectacles dangling from tip of his nose, Jeff Cincotta surveys his domain. “You never find the best food in the middle of the city,” ... Read more.

Businesses and residents abutting 114B Stoughton St. may have had no idea what the strange packages entering and exiting the hair-braiding salon contained, but smoked fish likely would not have topped the guessing list ... Read more.

Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition first introduced the Wheels Bike-A-Thon to the Mattapan community six years ago. Organizers envisioned a family-friendly event that would also promote healthy, physical activity. ... Read more.

A new summer cooking class launched today in Mattapan and will continue each Thursday afternoon through Aug. 18. Organizers hope they can help residents prepare healthier, more delicious meals. The program is free for ... Read more.

A staple on the city’s distressed properties list, 139 Stoughton St. has long been the subject of complaints from abutters. But hope is in sight for the neighbors: The flagstone-faced residence is now being rehabilitated ... Read more.

A cast comprised mostly of Dorchester and Mattapan teens is the latest company of actors to tackle the story of forbidden love set against the vendetta between the two powerful families of Verona. They also are the latest ... Read more.

Bird Street Community Center, a Dorchester-based non-profit, has partnered with Faneuil Hall Marketplace to operate two new pushcarts to sell what they’re best known for making: one-of-a -ind handmade blown and stain ... Read more.

St. Mark’s VFW Post #1758 will host a fundraiser on Sat., Aug. 6 aimed at raising awareness of the number of suicides among veterans. The post is partnering with 22KILL, an organization established in 2013 to build a ... Read more.

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