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In District 3, the endorsement war rages on. The two candidates, Frank Baker and John O’Toole, continue to proclaim backing from this union and that union, all the while eyeing the electoral clock that shows less than two ... Read more.

Some voters in Ashmont Hill are circulating a petition in protest of a proposed switch of their state representative. The Legislature’s redistricting committee, charged with redrawing political boundaries for seats held ... Read more.

With winter weather fast approaching, the City of Boston is looking to bring residents in from the cold with a no-cost weatherization program. Now in its second year of operation, members of the Renew Boston program are ... Read more.

Two years ago, outgoing City Councillor Michael Flaherty stood in the ballroom of the Venezia restaurant with a darkened Dorchester Bay behind him. The election returns were in, and he had just gotten off the phone with ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 24, 2011….Happy Hour, when bars temporarily discount alcoholic drinks or give them out for free, has been banned in Massachusetts since December 1984, but House and Senate leaders will soon ... Read more.

A Dorchester woman and a Quincy man were arrested on prostitution charges early Monday morning after police spotted them engaged in risque behavior in a car parked outside 200 Savin Hill Ave.

The Boston Police ... Read more.

A Providence man stopped Thursday evening for a minor traffic violation on Columbia Road near the Southeast Expressway turned out to have 18 kilograms (40 pounds) of cocaine and 13 kilograms (29 pounds) of heroin in his ... Read more.

Dorchester is already home to some of Boston’s most prestigious public schools. Now one of the neighborhood’s lesser-known institutions is tapping new talent and partnerships to move from a “turnaround school” to a school ... Read more.

A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week allowed for the lawsuit against District 3 candidate John O’Toole to move forward. While the judge, Mitchell Kaplan, rejected O’Toole’s request for the case to be dismissed, he ... Read more.

District 2 City Council candidate Suzanne Lee faced off against incumbent Councillor Bill Linehan Monday night in a debate staged in front of an audience of about 100 in the heart of Linehan’s South Boston base, the Boys ... Read more.

The first annual Nightingale Community Garden Harvest Festival on Saturday afternoon featured a potluck of dishes picked fresh from the ground, a pickling demonstration by Bowdoin Street Health Center’s Healthy Champions ... Read more.

Among many residential homes and business’ on Boston Street is nestled the Clapp Family Barn. If you ride by too fast, you may miss it; a historic treasure trove that truly represents Dorchester’s oldest beginnings. ... Read more.

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