A series of residential projects on formerly vacant city-owned lots along the Glenway Street corridor have broken ground this fall and are under construction. Many of the lots have been empty for more than 30 years and were targeted in a process that began almost 10 years ago when then-District 4 Councillor Andrea Campbell worked to catalog all empty city lots.
Opponents of a Wu administration proposal to close or combine schools, including three in Dorchester, plan to hold a pair of rallies this week in hopes of influencing the Boston School Committee, which is expected to vote on the plan at its next meeting on Dec. 17.
The owner of Pho Que Restaurant at 291 Adams St. has told members of the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) that he wants a full liquor or a beer-and-wine license from the city of Boston.
St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children kicked off a fundraising campaign for their plans to build-out a new facility at their Jones Hill campus on Nov. 12 with Gov. Maura Healey joining other elected officials to promote the effort.
Boston International Newcomers Academy (BINcA) boys soccer team won the Division 5 state championship on Saturday, defeating Hopedale High School, 2-0, at Curry College. The victory marks the first time a city of Boston boys’ team has won a MIAA soccer title.
The pop-pop-pop of gunshots disrupted a youth football program’s practice at Dorchester’s Harambee Park on Wednesday evening.
It was an opportunity for giving back at the third annual AccessMA turkeys, coats, and hot meals distributions at several sites across Dorchester and Roxbury last Saturday, including at the Sarah Greenwood School on Glenway Street.
A state agency has included a roof restoration project at the Mildred Avenue K-8 School in Mattapan on a list of approved 2025 Accelerated Repair Program (ARP) funding, according to a statement from BPS.
State Rep. Russell Holmes delivered a tough critique of the state’s Congressional leaders during a Codman Square Neighborhood Council meeting earlier this month, saying it’s time for them to “get in the room” on issues like the federal government shutdown.
Stunned by the results of the Nov. 4 city council contest? If yes, you’ve got something in common with fifth-place finisher Frank Baker, who spoke to The Reporter this week in his first interview since the election.
A man charged with murder in a fatal stabbing in Mattapan last weekend is one of more than 200 defendants who saw their criminal cases dismissed in October due to a lack of legal representation.
A proposal that will go before the Boston School Committee for discussion on Wednesday (Nov. 19) would result in the closure or reorganization of six city schools in 2027. Four Dorchester schools are impacted: the Lee Academy Pilot School (PreK-3) and the Community Academy of Health and Sciences High School (CASH 9-12) in Fields Corner would close under the plan, outlined to reporters on Monday afternoon by Mayor Wu and BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper.
A drop in the number of students enrolled in Boston Public Schools (BPS) this year is linked to a large decrease in the number of migrant and “newcomer” students, according to Supt. Mary Skipper, who briefed the Boston School Committee on the matter late last month.
As the massive eye of Hurricane Melissa churned toward Jamaica on Oct. 28, Robert Wint and Raymean Robinson could only sit and watch helplessly from Dorchester as the storm roared onto their home town of St. Elizabeth, a parish in the western part of the island.
Longtime Codman Square NDC leader Gail Latimore celebrated her retirement at a gala on Nov. 6 in Dona Habana Restaurant in the South End, where she was joined by scores of development professionals, elected officials, family, friends, and co-workers who sought to send her off in style.
