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Mattapan and Dorchester residents gathered at the Mildred Ave. Community Center last Wednesday (Oct. 19) to learn about new business developments and hear from various city agencies in the latest of a series of meetings ... Read more.

Early voting in the presidential election of 2016 began in Boston on Monday, 13 days before the scheduled Nov. 8 election day, with polling stations open in East Boston, Chinatown, South End, and at City Hall. On ... Read more.

Over 164,000 people chose to make Boston their home — briefly — over the last year, through the short-term rental service Airbnb. As state legislators prepare to re-examine regulations for such services and the Boston ... Read more.

Ashmont Hill Chamber Music will partner with Boston City Singers for a program of Art Song on Sunday, November 6 at 4 p.m. in Peabody Hall, All Saints’ Church, 209 Ashmont St., Dorchester.

As fewer chamber music ... Read more.

With performances this Friday and Saturday, Avenue Stage, Dorchester’s most highly acclaimed (as well as its only) community theater group, debuts it latest dinner theatre collaboration with the Dot 2 Dot Café at 1739 ... Read more.

His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley, OFM, Cap. presented Stephen Hughes of Dorchester, principal of Boston College High School, with the Cardinal Cushing Medal for Excellence in Service to Humanity on October 16. ... Read more.

Aidan’s Barbershop and City Legends Barbershop will join nine other local barbershops, salons and businesses in and around Boston to give thanks to veterans and their families by raising funds with style for the second ... Read more.

A 41-year old man who was shot on Oct. 18 while fixing his car on Dorchester Avenue has died.
Speaking before the St. Mark’s Area Civic Association on Tuesday night, Capt. Tim Connolly, the commander at C-11, ... Read more.

A development team planning to build a mixed-use residential complex on what is now an MBTA parking lot in Mattapan Square will not hold a community meeting in November as previously planned.

In an email sent out ... Read more.

Wanted man

The Boston Police Department reports it's looking for man for a purse snatching in the Florian Hall parking lot Sunday afternoon.

Police say a 75-year-old woman was going to her car around 3:30 p.m. ... Read more.

Edgardo Clark pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter for killing Gerald Williamson outside Chung Wah ... Read more.

You can see them practicing out on Jim Rice Field in the South End on weekday afternoons - two schools, one football team: The Cathedral Panthers, a Division 4 co-op team comprised of players from both Cristo Rey Boston ... Read more.

The Massachusetts unemployment rate in September fell to 3.6 percent, its lowest level since June 2001. The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development reported Thursday morning that Bay State employers added 5, ... Read more.

Arresting canvases and bold artistic statements by teen artists from three Dorchester high schools will have pride of place at this weekend’s annual Dorchester Open Studios.

On Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5, ... Read more.

The city’s community centers will open earlier and close later starting this week. Mayor Walsh announced the operational changes on Friday. All free-standing centers will be open Monday through Friday from 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m ... Read more.

Saying “it is time we responsibly manage our investments in Haiti and make sure we work collaboratively towards greater accountability in dealing with relief efforts for a sustainable Haiti,” state Sen. Linda Dorcena ... Read more.

Members of the McCormack Civic Association threw their support behind an updated pitch for a mixed-use project proposed by Polish Triangle developer Doug George at their monthly meeting on Tuesday evening at St.Teresa of ... Read more.

Open Theatre Project presents the revival of “Murph” by Dorchester playwright Catherine M. O’Neill from Oct. 20-29 at the Allston performing arts venue Studio 52.

The play debuted in 2012 at the Boston’s ... Read more.

Notoriously difficult-to-navigate Kosciuszko Circle will undergo a traffic study as part of a state commitment to an $11 million infrastructure investment in South Boston and Dorchester.

Along with improvements ... Read more.

Parking has become one of the most consistently divisive topics in Boston, a city with areas of profound gridlock and winding streets experiencing a population and development boom. So the question of where residents park ... Read more.

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