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Bowdoin Street laundromat goes up in flames

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 9 Bowdoin St. for what turned into a...

State court halts vaccine mandate for city workers

A Massachusetts Appeals Court judge has halted a vaccine mandate for city workers. Several city unions, including Dorchester-based Firefighters Local 718, have waged a legal battle over the mandate. The Superior Court... Read more.

Projects dominating Dot neighborhoods; residences are rising at DotBlock village

Frank Baker remembers that when he was first elected as a city councillor in 2011 the area around Dorchester Avenue and Hancock Street was in rough shape, featuring a meth lab, prostitutes, and johns at the prominent... Read more.

Dot Chiefs dominate citywide hockey play

Dorchester swept the Bantam AA, Bantam AAA, Mite AA, and Pee Wee A divisions in the 28th Annual Mayor’s Cup Hockey Tournament that played out at the end of December. The tournament began on Dec. 18 and the finals were held... Read more.

Large liquor store at South Bay wins approval

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved a proposed 23,000-square-foot Total Wine store at the South Ball mall, where the OfficeMax used to be. At a hearing in November, the store said South Bay was in strong need of... Read more.

Harvard Street Health hires family medicine physician as center’s new medical director

The Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center has hired Dr. Simone Ellis, a family medicine physician, as its new medical director. Dr. Alice Lin has been serving as interim director at the clinic. A native of Bridgeport, CT... Read more.

Feeney bids City Hall goodbye after 34 years

Thirty-four years after she walked into City Hall as an aide to a Dorchester councillor, Maureen Feeney, who served nine terms on the council herself before taking the job of city clerk in 2011, is retiring. The 74-year-old... Read more.

Rebecca Zama, singer and activist, resists the pressure to ‘pick a sound’

Hunched in a dimly lit Dorchester recording studio last November, the Boston-raised singer Rebecca Zama tests her track: riffing in English, belting in Haitian Kreyol, murmuring in Spanish, and, when forgetting a lyric,...

Online school finder offered as tool to help BPS parents

Priority registrationfor the Boston Public Schools is underway, with the period for students for full-day kindergarten and grades 6, 7, and 9 closing this Friday, Jan. 28. Priority registration for all other grades...

Court upholds conviction in ’18 Lonsdale Street rape case

The Massachusetts Appeals Court last Friday upheld Charles Duncan’s 12-to-15 year prison sentence for raping a woman as she was walking home from the Shawmut T stop in 2018, saying he got a fair trial. The court, however,...

Peers honor Russell Heller, superintendent at Devine course at Franklin Park

Since 2001, Russell Heller has supervised the maintenance and improvements at the second oldest municipal golf course in the country. As superintendent of Boston’s William J. Devine Golf Course at Franklin Park, Heller has...

Zoning Board says no go to Downer Court condo building

The Zoning Board of Appeal last week rejected a proposal for a four-story, nine-unit condo building at 9 Downer Ct. off Bowdoin Street. Board members said the proposed building was simply too large for its context - a dead-...