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The month of March – Saint Patrick’s Month –is underway, with Irish-themed events all over town. Boston’s Irish stay connected with many events throughout the year, at the Irish Cultural Centre, the Irish Pastoral Centre ... Read more.

Many Bostonians have always had a difficult relationship with the winter months, if not a disdain. But city officials want to change that and persuade residents to embrace cold, and they began their mission with a display ... Read more.

Under the leadership of Interim Principal Matthew Ginsburg and Lisa Hess, a science instructional coach, the Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 Innovation School in Dorchester held its first science fair on March 2, in the school ... Read more.

The race to replace Jon Santiago, who left his 9th Suffolk House seat for a Healey administration post, is underway. Anchored in the South End, the House district’s boundaries stretch down past the South Bay shopping ... Read more.

A Lasell University track star and jewelry store employee was accused of stealing nearly $550,000 from her employer, and funneling the money towards purchases of a Tesla in addition to a trip to Hawaii.

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Matthew Malloy of Ocean Street in Dorchester really, really wants to buy an electric vehicle. But he doesn't have a driveway and ISD has warned him that if he tries to run an extension cord over the sidewalk to a car ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed Columbia Crossing

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved two projects for two parcels on Columbia Road that will mean 113 new affordable apartments, artist space and the preservation of two historic buildings across from the Strand ... Read more.

120 Bowdoin St. rendering

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a 38-unit apartment building at 120 Bowdoin St. at Geneva Avenue in Dorchester.

Developer Solmon Chowdhury's plans ... Read more.

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The Boston Public Schools (BPS) will pursue state funding and approvals for a new K-6 school complex in the Dorchester-Mattapan area, officials said last Thursday (March 9) in announcing they will file an application with ... Read more.

Rendering of proposed building at 617 Dorchester Avenue

A pair of developers have proposed a four-story, 18-unit condo building on what is now a vacant lot that stretches between Dorchester Avenue and Boston Street in the ... Read more.

A metal panel fell last weekend from the aging and out-of-use Bayside Expo Center sign, crashing onto the parking lot below.

Efforts are underway to remove additional panels from the sign, which is owned by the ... Read more.

Q.You are leading one of the country’s largest anti-poverty agencies, and you grew up in Mattapan, a neighborhood heavily influenced by the issues of poverty. How has your life there as a young woman ... Read more.

To the Editor:
Many of us were stunned last week when we learned with great sadness of the death of our former colleague and dear friend, ... Read more.

Adam Madeja traded two bell peppers and an onion for a hot dog with another vendor.  Nearby, Michelle Carter demonstrated the wonders of shea butter while Tasha Kitty, a local crystal and wellness vendor, loaded up on ... Read more.

A funny thing happened to the Geneva Cliffs Urban Wild on its way to becoming an official Boston park: A large, adjacent swath of land next to it owned by the utility company Eversource but long used for community ... Read more.

Two Dorchester-based playwrights were among seven local dramatists recently selected out of some fifty submissions by Moonbox Productions for its second annual New Works Festival.

A panel of judges selected four ... Read more.

Me2/Boston, a classical music organization geared toward people with mental illnesses, will launch its “stigma free chorus” in Dorchester on March 14 under the new direction of conductor Johnny Nichols Jr.

The ... Read more.

On Feb. 3, Boston public schools closed because of the severe Arctic cold and wind chill forecast for that day and the next. My first thought was: What if the students’ mothers are single and working, what if they cannot ... Read more.

Many charter schools in and around Dorchester have fledgling high school programs that have struggled for visibility and legitimacy. But teams from Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS), Boston Collegiate Charter, and ... Read more.

A group of petitioners has called upon the state’s environmental secretary to initiate a review of the proposed Edward Brooke Charter School turf field on Morton Street in Mattapan, noting that an earlier decision not to ... Read more.

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