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Two buildings in Mattapan undergoing renovation this month are in the spotlight as the city continues to scramble to find space to house homeless people who were displaced by the abrupt closure of shelter facilities on ... Read more.

Four prospective buyers are vying for what could be the cheapest piece of real estate in the city: a former comfort station on Columbia Road that the city of Boston put on the market this fall. The minimum bid for a ... Read more.

Danielle Legros Georges, a resident of Dorchester, will begin a four year-term as the city of Boston’s official Poet Laureate in January. Georges, a native of Haiti who teaches Creative Arts at Lesley University, is a ... Read more.

Robert Kraft, New England Patriots Chairman and CEO and New England Patriots players visited Edward Everett Elementary School in Dorchester on Monday to give the school grant money to build a new playground and make ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 16, 2014.....Governor-elect Charlie Baker on Tuesday expressed enthusiasm about the possibility of the Olympics coming to Massachusetts as backers of a Boston bid for the 2024 summer games ... Read more.

Vote is 5-4; dissenter questions quorum count

A breakthrough in the decades-long impasse over the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers’ exclusion of gay and lesbian marchers appears to ... Read more.

Mayor Marty Walsh is California-bound as he and backers of Boston’s Olympic bid officially make their case to the US Olympic Committee on Tuesday, Walsh’s office confirmed today.

“The mayor will be traveling to ... Read more.

The owner of an Adams Street barber shop was stabbed to death last evening at 661 Adams St. The victim was found in the street outside the Clover City Unisex Barber Shop. Friends and family who gathered outside the store ... Read more.

John Steinberg, an archaeologist in UMass Boston’s Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological ... Read more.

On Sunday night, community members from around Boston gathered at Dorchester’s Global Ministries Church on Washington Street for an “anti-displacement event” to discuss trends in rent levels, real estate prices, and ... Read more.

Thursday (11th) – Port Norfolk Civic Association meeting regarding plans to site a public park at the former Shaffer Paper property starts at 7 p.m. at the Port Norfolk Yacht Club, 179 Walnut St.
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The Department of Conservation and Recreation will lay out construction and design plans for the long-awaited transformation from the former Shaffer Paper site into the Port Norfolk Park tonight (Thursday, Dec. 11). ... Read more.

A national group hoping to create a groundswell of civic opposition to short-term room rental services did not get much traction after a presentation at last Wednesday’s Pope’s Hill Civic Association meeting.

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The archdiocese of Boston moved a step closer this week to realigning its parishes in Dorchester with the appointment of new pastors that will be made public sometime after the holidays. Last September, Cardinal Seán O’ ... Read more.

Early in January, Kathie Tully will head off to her new home in southeastern Massachusetts, ending some ten decades of Tully family ownership of 34 Lonsdale Street, Dorchester, the site of an earth-shattering event some ... Read more.

The Leapfrog Top Hospital award is given to less than seven percent of all eligible hospitals— and Dorchester’s Carney Hospital is once again on the list. The awards, given annually for those hospitals that meet top ... Read more.

The Boston Parks and Recreation Department has planned renovations to the street hockey rink in Garvey Park, which has been re-named for John and Ann O’Sullivan, the late parents of the well-known Neponset hockey family. ... Read more.

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