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The Bearded Lady caused quite the sensation last Sunday as s/he blew kisses to well-wishers along the Dorchester Avenue parade route from aboard the “DotOUT under the Big Top” float. The balloon –decked, striped circus ... Read more.

The city agency tasked with planning and economic development is setting up an advisory group for improving the Blue Hill Avenue and Cummins Highway area, which is plagued by blighted properties, that will work with the ... Read more.

Patrick G. ‘Pat’ McDonagh, a lifelong Dorchester resident who became one of the neighborhood’s favorite purveyors of pizzas, calzones and sub sandwiches, died suddenly last Saturday at his Lower Mills home. McDonagh, 60, ... Read more.

Moments after a hit/run driver crashed into cars on Oyster Bay Road around 8 p.m. on Monday, a security guard shot the apparent driver on Mt. Vernon Street, in front of the Dever school.

The driver, Leroy Wiggins, ... Read more.

(Updated, June 6) Residents on both sides of the Neponset River will be treated to a fireworks show on Sunday, June 9 at Hutchinson Field in Milton from 5-9 p.m. The event was originally set for Friday night, but has been ... Read more.

Temperature soared into the high 80s as thousands of sun-soaked people marched the three-plus miles up Dorchester Avenue on Sunday in the 50th anniversary Dot Day Parade. Tens of thousands more lined the parade route and ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department says a man firing a gun from a car outside a party on Willowwood St. around 1:50 a.m. on Sunday turned his gun on arriving officers, who returned fire, fatally wounding him.

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The Boston Police Department reports a ... Read more.

The candidates hoping to succeed Mayor Thomas Menino will face off in forums in the morning and at night next month. Two forums are scheduled for Wed., June 5, with one at 8:30 a.m., put together by the Boston Society of ... Read more.

More than 100,000 people are expected to turn out for this Sunday’s 50th anniversary Dorchester Day Parade. The parade starts at 1 o’clock from the corner of Richmond Street and Dorchester Avenue in Lower Mills.

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This Saturday at 3 p.m., nearly 300 children and teens will come together from Dorchester and greater Boston for the Boston City Singers’ year-end finale performance at the Strand Theatre. The young people, representing ... Read more.

The Dorchester Day Parade Committee’s annual essay contest was sponsored by the Dorchester Reporter this year. Two winners were chosen among a number of entries. Students in grades 6-8 were asked to write about “an ... Read more.

When Jim Brett was a longtime state representative running for mayor in 1993, he was the only candidate on the ballot who was also a Dorchester resident. He was up against Hyde Park City Councillor Thomas Menino, who ... Read more.

Dorchester residents gathered last Thursday at Codman Square’s Great Hall for a community forum discussing the upcoming opening of a Daily Table store at 450 Washington Street, a space currently owned by the Codman Square ... Read more.

Settled by passengers from the Mary and John about June 1, 1630, Dorchester originally was one of the largest towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and included South Boston, Hyde Park, Milton, Wrentham, Stoughton, Dedham ... Read more.

The water quality at Dorchester beaches is improving, but is still bringing up the rear compared to other regional beaches, according to an environmental report card issued this week by a watchdog group. Save the Harbor/ ... Read more.

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