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The state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation plans to create a new public square through the clean up of a decrepit Mattapan Square building, which once housed a mattress store but has become an eyesore on the ... Read more.

Dan Cullinane, who has worked at the State House and in City Hall, is considering a run for the 12th Suffolk House seat if state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry wins the May 28 special election to fill former state Sen. Jack ... Read more.

Ashmont Hill Chamber Music will present a benefit organ recital by native son Aaron Sunstein this Sunday at 4 p.m. at All Saints Church. Sunstein, a doctoral degree candidate at Indiana University, returns to Boston to ... Read more.

In a White House ceremony in the East Room, First Lady Michelle Obama joined Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Director Susan Hildreth to present the 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to ... Read more.

The Senate's budget chief on Wednesday described differences between the House and Senate spending plans for fiscal 2014 as "incremental," but a quick review of the bill shows the branches taking different paths on ... Read more.

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Fr. Sean Connor, who has led St. Ann parish in Neponset since 2008, will leave his role as pastor later this ... Read more.

Area C-11 detectives busted a 23 year-old Dorchester man on Monday as he attempted to sell them a pair of stolen cameras that he posted for sale on Craigslist just hours before. One of the two cameras was among the items ... Read more.

Two Mattapan men were ordered held in lieu of $200,000 bail each at their arraignment Tuesday on charges they resorted to gunfire when barred from a party on Evans Street late Saturday night, the Suffolk County District ... Read more.

Fresh off high-profile appearances on GMA Live! and the Interfaith Service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross before the Obamas, Dorchester and Mattapan youngsters will be among the 350 members of the Boston Children’ ... Read more.

The annual neighborhood fundraisers have been a tradition for Mayor Thomas Menino – usually occurring in Jamaica Plain, East Boston, and in Dorchester. With last month’s announcement that he won’t seek a sixth four-year ... Read more.

Joseph Ureneck, the Dorchester resident who is the Republican nominee running against state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry, a Democrat, for the First Suffolk District seat in the state Senate, is calling for a forum where he ... Read more.

For nearly all of the 20th century, the Boston Irish had a lock – even a stranglehold – on the office of mayor. Not until the outgoing Tom Menino followed Ray Flynn in the post was the near-monopoly of old sod ... Read more.

One of Dorchester’s oldest existing homes is getting a major facelift this season thanks to a city fund that helps homeowners make major improvements to historic properties. The Federal-style yellow home at 6 Parkman ... Read more.

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