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Fields Corner’s Chill on Park has already become a popular destination for coffee and ice creamn lovers since it opened last May. Last Thursday, the Park Street storefront became a classroom too, as a groups of Suffolk ... Read more.

Holiday Inn Express with proposed addition

The Holiday Inn Express off the Southeast Expressway in Dorchester is seeking BRA permission to add 60 rooms for budget-conscious visitors to Boston.

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“ ‘West Side Story’ is my absolute favorite musical of all time!” exclaims Dorchester actress Marta Rymer. No wonder, then, that she accepted the role of Estella in the Leonard Bernstein blockbuster, the season-opening ... Read more.

Dorchester residents gathered Wednesday night for a public safety meeting addressing a churn of low level crime and specifically prompted by an attack on night of Sept. 27, in which a woman on Harbor View Street was ... Read more.

A grand jury indicted a Dorchester man for manslaughter last week in the death of an 18 year-old cyclist who was struck and killed on Talbot Avenue last May. Gregory McCoy, 27, was allegedly under the influence and fled ... Read more.

Gov. Charlie Baker reignited a debate on Thursday that has vexed and divided Democrat and Republican lawmakers in recent years, proposing an expansion of charter schools that would be targeted toward the lowest performing ... Read more.

The House on Wednesday overrode a veto from Gov. Charlie Baker on a bill that would allow retired Boston police officers to serve on details within the city, after legislators found a solution to the governor's concerns ... Read more.

Thursday (8th) – Community meeting for parents, educators and students to discuss creating a unified enrollment system for district and charter schools in Boston. 5:30 p.m. Kroc Center, 650 Dudley St., ... Read more.

Dorchester now has its first Hubway station, a 15-bike facility next to Robert E. Ryan Playground off Dorchester Avenue in Savin Hill. The new station is one of 15 that either have been or are scheduled to be installed as ... Read more.

District 4 city council candidate Andrea Campbell released an updated version of her platform last Friday, her latest salvo in a robust challenge to 32-year incumbent Charles Yancey. Campbell sees her “plan, a ... Read more.

Public safety and ongoing development took top billing at at Monday’s monthly Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association meeting.

The civic association, in coordination with City Councillor Frank Baker’s office and ... Read more.

On Saturday, October 4, hundreds of people marched up Dorchester Ave from Fields Corner to Hancock Street in protest of evictions and rent increases. Marchers who joined the Right to Remain Boston assembly demanded ... Read more.

The Bay State's congressional delegation is divided on possible approaches the United States could take as Russia has ramped up its defense of Syria's brutal Assad regime.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, whose predecessor is ... Read more.

The man who murdered off-duty corrections officer Sgt. Richard Dever outside a Charlestown bar in 2005 will not receive a new trial, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

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No tempestuous “artistic temperaments” were in evidence in Fields Corner recently as one arts collective gave way to its successor: The former Howard Art Project (HAP) space became home of the Dorchester Art Project (DAP ... Read more.

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