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Mayor Walsh launched a “Five on Main” Challenge last weekend during a series of holiday tree lightings. The campaign hopes to inspire shoppers to support Main Streets and other city commercial districts during the 2014 ... Read more.

Even as residents from Dorchester to Readville celebrate the arrival of the first-ever weekend service on the enhanced Fairmount Line, a coalition of neighborhood groups is planning to launch a grassroots campaign aimed ... Read more.

Seven people suffered minor injuries last Wednesday morning (Nov. 26) when an out-of-service MBTA trolley rolled backwards and collided with an inbound Ashmont trolley along a stretch of the Mattapan High Speed line ... Read more.

Seven people suffered minor injuries this morning when an out-of-service MBTA trolley rolled backwards and collided with an inbound Ashmont trolley along a stretch of the Mattapan High Speed line inside Cedar Grove ... Read more.

On Friday night, community members from the Codman Square and Four Corners neighborhoods gathered at the Great Hall for the 2014 Hidden Heroes/Sheroes award night, co-hosted by the Codman Square Neighborhood Council and ... Read more.

The click of a button was all it took to connect two “Dots” earlier this month.

The trip across the Atlantic, once long and arduous, even deadly, was completed in a moment earlier this month when the mayor and ... Read more.

Thursday (27th) – Franklin Park Turkey Trot 5k on Thanksgiving Day. Run or walk off calories with your relatives, friends, and neighbors before you sit down to dinner! Chip-timed this year with fun prizes ... Read more.

Mayor Walsh and the Dorchester Holiday Celebrations Committee will light the neighborhood’s holiday trees in a City View trolley-stop tour of ten villages on Sat., Nov. 29. The tour starts at 3:30 p.m. at Port Norfolk at ... Read more.

The status of convicted killer Sean Ellis’s motion for a new trial, which is based on his contention that during his trial in 1995 prosecutors did not, as required, turn over to his defense counsel exculpatory information ... Read more.

(Editor’s Note: Due to popular demand, we are pleased to reprint Mary Casey Forry’s classic column about her schedule of activities around the house for Thanksgiving Day. This article first appeared in the Dorchester ... Read more.

Once upon a time a good book was the go-to Christmas gift for the discerning to dispense to friend or family. When in doubt, find a nice new title to present unless, of course, the would-be receiver happened to be a ... Read more.

Gov. Deval Patrick said he was disappointed listening to the announcement Monday night that a grand jury in Ferguson, Mo., did not indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 ... Read more.

A longtime manufacturing plant a stone's throw from Savin Hill T Station is now on the market after an August sale to an out-of-state company, the Reporter has learned. James Russell Engineering Works Inc., located at ... Read more.

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