

The discussion over rebuilding Blue Hill Avenue was renewed over the last month through a series of four public meetings that offered a thorough overview of the most recent plans for the $163 million reconstruction of the roadway. It was a helpful and necessary exercise.

Even the most habitual voters can be listed as “inactive” if they fail to respond to the city’s annual street census.

The former Comfort Inn is now operated by The Community Builders, with Pine Street Inn providing round-the-clock supportive services for residents.

The “Desperate Housewives” star is in the neighborhood shooting a film.

An event to unveil the idea will be held on Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at Scarboro Hill in Franklin Park. Images courtesy SmokeSygnals

Boston Municipal Research Bureau is calling attention to the challenges facing the nearly 14,554 BPS students who attend the district’s 31 open enrollment high schools.

The final available unit— a three bedroom, first-floor unit— is still open for buyers.

There is no pause, says a Wu administration official.

A rendering of the newest designs of the extended stay hotel at 275 E. Cottage St. approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday, only hours after the local civic association opposed it 18-4.

The development team behind the long-delayed Dorchester Bay City (DBC) project are pursuing a roughly $400 million federal loan that they hope will allow them to launch a first phase of more than 700 housing units on its Columbia Point site by next year.

US Rep. Ayanna Pressley has joined the campaign opposing Question 3, the statewide ballot measure that would replace Massachusetts’ partisan primary elections with a single all-party primary beginning in 2028.

Dawn Morris will swap her baking mitts for boxing gloves when she leaves the kitchen at DJ’s Polish Market to compete in Haymakers for Hope’s Belles of the Brawl, a charity boxing event at MGM Music Hall in the Fenway next Wednesday (Oct.14).

Elected officials and neighborhood leaders rallied in Allston on Monday to oppose the US Postal Service’s plan to permanently close the neighborhood’s long-shuttered post office, warning that the fight has taken on new urgency as Dorchester prepares for its own “temporary” postal office shutdown later this month in Fields Corner.

“For every neighbor that sits in this garden and needs peace…if you feel a calm, that’s his story and his presence with you,” said Ron Odom Sr., Steven’s dad.