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‘All are welcome here’: How the health center movement took root in Neponset

Fifty years ago, the newest face of health care in Dorchester was a line of mothers with baby carriages outside a storefront on Neponset Avenue.

If the patients at the newly opened Neponset Health Center looked...

City: Uphams Corner has reached a pivotal moment for Arts & Cultural District

With two major Requests for Proposals (RFP) out on the street this fall for Uphams Corner, City officials told those involved in the planning for the Uphams Corner Arts & Innovation District that the effort was at an... Read more.

At rally, elected leaders and union officials call for better safety plan at Henderson School

Three weeks after Henderson Upper School principal Patricia Lampron was beaten unconscious on the sidewalk in front of the school — allegedly by a 9th grade student — parents, union leaders and city councillors sought to... Read more.

Massive 800 Morrissey development seeks public input

Dorchester residents will get a chance next month to weigh in on a massive development set for Morrissey Boulevard. The proposal for 800 Morrissey Boulevard, currently home to an “underperforming” Ramada hotel, calls for a... Read more.

City moves to protect ancient Native American quarry in Mattapan

Boston and its neighborhoods are historic for certain, but rarely does the city have an opportunity to place landmark status on a site dating back before the Egyptian pyramids or England’s Stonehenge. That is exactly what... Read more.

Looking forward and backward to the fall holidays

As Thanksgiving arrives and we all think about turkeys, it’s hard to ignore the ongoing shock value of seeing wild bands of gobblers traipsing through the west side of Dorchester causing havoc, threatening people and just... Read more.

Reps. Pressley, Lynch land $15M for Blue Hill Avenue project

Federal transportation officials are set to send $15 million to Massachusetts for an overhaul of Blue Hill Avenue, a project aimed at improving access to public transportation and refashioning a key economic corridor of the...