City board approves new 22-unit building next to Murphy Funeral Home
December 12, 2025
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 local man was charged with interfering with an election official, interfering with a voter and assault and battery on a police officer after he allegedly tried to make off with some food poll workers
A state agency has sold a 10-acre parcel of land on the former Mattapan State Hospital property to a development team that plans to build 287 new housing units— the
Boston’s bike share system is expanding throughout Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, with 20 new Bluebikes stations to be installed in those neighborhoods. City officials hosted an open house
Mattapan’s Canterbury Brook might as well be the Loch Ness Monster. Few have actually seen it, no one is quite sure if it’s real, and it disappears right after it
One hundred newly sworn-in Boston Police officers began their assignments in districts across the city last Monday (Sept. 8) including at Area C-11 and Area B-3, the two largest districts
For ten young people from Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, the summer of 2025 was a time when words like urban agriculture and food justice turned into reality with their participation
With the sound of the starter’s horn, 380 participants in the first-ever Mattapan Unity 5K were off and running on Saturday morning.
The Boston Licensing Board decided Thursday to take no immediate action on a request from the owner of Aguasvivas Market, 926 Morton St. in Mattapan, to add Caribbean and Latin
The issue involved MassBiologics – an agency run by the University of Massachusetts’s Chan Medical School – and whether or not it will move ahead with plans to expand its
When egg prices shot up dramatically earlier this year, the Urban Farming Institute (UFI) in Mattapan decided to take a crack at providing its neighbors with a more affordable option
The 15th annual Mattapan on Wheels bicycle rally celebrated a milestone on Saturday morning (July 26) before excited riders set out to usher in the use of the Neponset Greenway
A crowd of neighbors and guests, including Mayor Wu, gathered in the park with the Lewis family for the occasion as the thwacking rhythm of the Tenacity summer program’s tennis
The Rev. Pearline James and her husband Evan immigrated to Boston from Jamaica in 1971 as part of an early wave of Jamaican arrivals in the city. They were the
In Mattapan, the Urban Farming Institute (UFI) has launched its Farm Stand Fridays, which will run from noon to 5 p.m. through Nov. 21.
More than 100 people gathered on Monday night to celebrate the life of the late David Lopes, a storied Wellington Hill resident who passed away after an illness in 2023
Following are excerpts from the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council’s statement on the Blue Hill Avenue Transportation Action Plan
