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The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans for a four-story, 21-unit live/work condo building at 2 Hillsboro St. in Dorchester - with 18 of the units ... Read more.
The Morrissey Boulevard Commission voted unanimously to recommend an extension of the project deadline to Dec. 31 of this year at a virtual meeting held last Friday morning (May 31). The previous statutory deadline was ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a woman was shot at 36 Edson ... Read more.
The VietAID community center in Fields Corner was the setting for a unique competition last week (May 21) as thirteen would-be entrepreneurs vied for prize money in an event aimed at boosting Asian-American businesses. ... Read more.
In April 1865, Dorchester’s Town Meeting gathered to consider an important civic measure – “to procure…a Corporate Seal of the town.” Many modern residents of Dorchester are familiar with that seal, emblazoned with the ... Read more.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester will mark its 50th anniversary this year. The organization’s first clubhouse swung open its doors on Deer Street in July 1974, but the effort had begun four years earlier with a core ... Read more.
To the Editor:
What an outrage! I attended the May 21 Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) zoom hearing on a development at 243D Savin Hill Ave. Against the opposition of all the abutters directly affected, a thumb’s- ... Read more.
Despite a decrease in student enrollment by 15.2 percent since 2014-15, officials have unveiled a long-term facilities vision for the Boston Public Schools (BPS) without identifying a single building that would close ... Read more.
The only elementary school marching band in the Boston Public School district will bring its talents to this year’s Dot Day Parade. Dorchester’s Thomas J. Kenny School on Oakton Ave. educates students from kindergarten ... Read more.
The first observance of Dorchester Day, in June of 1904, took place under a tent on Savin Hill. A celebration of local history and pride, it was also meant to protect an urban wild with a panoramic view from a frenzy of ... Read more.
At the turn of the 20th century, the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) was founded with the mission to care for the neglected and largely forgotten population of animals living on the streets. The idea for this ... Read more.
Maeghan Driscoll, 25, is this year’s honorary mayor of Dorchester, a title she earned by raising the most money to support Sunday’s parade. The contest is one of the primary ways that the parade committee finances the ... Read more.
Dorchester resident Joyce Linehan received the Champion of Courage Award last Thursday (May 23) at the annual Children’s Celebration luncheon at Venezia in Neponset that was sponsored by the Boston nonprofit MAXCourage ... Read more.
Squares+Streets has come to Dorchester. The Boston Planning and Development Agency’s (BPDA) local planning process officially started in Fields Corner two weeks ago. Codman Square’s kickoff was postponed when the city ... Read more.
Play Ball! – The Martin Richard Challenger Baseball program opened its 2024 season this past Sunday (May 26) at the newly renovated McConnell playground in Savin Hill. The pre-game ceremony featured a rendition of the ... Read more.
The annual Haitian American breakfast and ceremonial flag raising to commemorate the May 18 Flag Day took place on City Hall Plaza last Friday (May 17) and was used as a vehicle to highlight young Haitian American artists ... Read more.
Dave McKay, then 13, sat in his math classroom decades ago at the former St. Marks School on Centre Street ditching his assignment to focus on calculating statistics for the neighborhood baseball team he was helping to ... Read more.
Last year Dorchester’s own David and Stephen St. Russell – known as the “Renovation Husbands – starred on HGTV’s show “Battle on the Mountain,” but it wasn’t until the end of February that they could finally share their ... Read more.
The Massachusetts Legislature has tackled the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care by passing a fairly comprehensive package of regulations that may help avoid another meltdown at a major medical system.
But there’s ... Read more.
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