




When Fields Corner’s Taina Mair was selected as the 14th pick in the first round of the 2026 WNBA draft last April, she reminded her Boston neighbors that if you work hard enough, your dreams can take you anywhere.

Fresh Mediterranean flavors arrived in Dorchester last month when Thelo Mediterranean opened for diners at 860 Dot Ave, replacing Taqueria Casa Real’s tacos and burritos with gyros and souvlaki.

A frantic search for Milly, a 17-year-old blind and deaf dog who had wandered away from her fenced-in yard on Ashmont Hill home on Monday, ended happily on Monday.

“Massachusetts is famous for having uncontested races, and because of that, people really settle in because they think no one is watching,” Gayle told The Reporter.

A developer plans to build a 4-and-a-half-story, 20-unit condo complex at 2062 Dorchester Ave. The building would replace a currently unoccupied two-family home.

The highly regarded portrait and landscape artist Vincent Crotty has shared his talents with the Dorchester community since settling down in the neighborhood in the 1990s, and this summer has been no exception.

Last Wednesday (Sept 2.) Rita Steele and her mother, Hilarie Jackson, crammed into the Gilman Chapel at Cedar Grove Cemetery with about 100 other observers and listened closely as the names of 133 Black women interred beneath two vague markers in the burial ground were read out loud. As the 35th name was announced, “Sarah Smith,” the two women cheered.