

Opponents plan a protest, advocates urge that project move forward

If Angel Monét Ledbetter-Glaude can’t say it with music, her puppets will fill in the gaps. Monét, 58, and her son, Dominic, 26, are just hitting their stride with two puppets named ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Boogie’



Hall, of Mattapan, was recognized for her advocacy through the Colorado Street Neighborhood Association.

The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved an all-alcohol license for Marabou Café, 1592 Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan, which has been serving Haitian food since August.
The Boston Police Department reports a man who somehow crashed his car on Blue Hill Avenue at Woodhaven Street in Mattapan around 2 p.m. on Saturday, got out, carjacked another

A flurry of gun violence has disrupted life in parts of Dorchester and Mattapan in recent days.
The Boston Police Department reports a man was shot at 28 Woolson St. between Wildwood and Leston streets in Mattapan shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.

A development team that includes the Archdiocese of Boston’s Planning Office for Urban Affairs has filed plans for a 105-unit affordable housing project in Mattapan.

The roadway repair project, focused on the stretch between Fairway to Harvard Street, began in 2024.

Marabou Cafe co-owner Paulette Firmin: “It’s not just a place for Haitians to eat, but every ethnicity and age group. We need other communities to learn about it.”

A team of workers led by City Archaeologist Joe Bagley spent two days last week digging for traces of Native American artifacts at a River Street parcel that is slated

A gathering at the Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) on Fri., April 10, night that was billed as community meeting was actually a surprise party to salute the center’s director Rick

State lawmakers who serve on the Joint Ways and Means Committee gathered on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan last week to discuss their spending priorities in front of a roomful

Tracking the long-and-winding road towards making major improvements to the Blue Hill Avenue corridor.
A man who had his first-degree murder conviction for a fatal 2018 shooting in Mattapan overturned – after he’d spent five years in prison – today filed a wrongful-conviction suit

Two men who run neighboring micro-markets on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square – one just 150 square feet – were arrested today on federal charges they paid cash for

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










