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The time is right to breathe life back into a shuttered restaurant in Uphams Corner, or so Steven Bingham hopes. The Restaurant at 33 Hancock, at the former Ka-Carlos location, has been closed for the last five years, ... Read more.

Kevin F. Callahan, a graduate of Dorchester (Samoset Street, adjacent to the St. Mark’s parish grounds) who settled with his family in Hanson, died on Monday at home after a seven-year confrontation with leukemia and its ... Read more.

The Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner program's Jr. Pee-Wee team — 33 youngsters ages 10-11— are hoping to travel to Orlando, Florida this weekend to compete in the annual Pop Warner national tournament. The team earned a spot ... Read more.

The next election for Boston City Council is nearly a year away, but things are already heating up, with two challengers having filed papers with the Office of Campaign and Political Finance: Bryan Fuller of South Boston ... Read more.

Mayor Walsh launched a “Five on Main” Challenge last weekend during a series of holiday tree lightings. The campaign hopes to inspire shoppers to support Main Streets and other city commercial districts during the 2014 ... Read more.

Even as residents from Dorchester to Readville celebrate the arrival of the first-ever weekend service on the enhanced Fairmount Line, a coalition of neighborhood groups is planning to launch a grassroots campaign aimed ... Read more.

Seven people suffered minor injuries last Wednesday morning (Nov. 26) when an out-of-service MBTA trolley rolled backwards and collided with an inbound Ashmont trolley along a stretch of the Mattapan High Speed line ... Read more.

Seven people suffered minor injuries this morning when an out-of-service MBTA trolley rolled backwards and collided with an inbound Ashmont trolley along a stretch of the Mattapan High Speed line inside Cedar Grove ... Read more.

On Friday night, community members from the Codman Square and Four Corners neighborhoods gathered at the Great Hall for the 2014 Hidden Heroes/Sheroes award night, co-hosted by the Codman Square Neighborhood Council and ... Read more.

The click of a button was all it took to connect two “Dots” earlier this month.

The trip across the Atlantic, once long and arduous, even deadly, was completed in a moment earlier this month when the mayor and ... Read more.

Thursday (27th) – Franklin Park Turkey Trot 5k on Thanksgiving Day. Run or walk off calories with your relatives, friends, and neighbors before you sit down to dinner! Chip-timed this year with fun prizes ... Read more.

Mayor Walsh and the Dorchester Holiday Celebrations Committee will light the neighborhood’s holiday trees in a City View trolley-stop tour of ten villages on Sat., Nov. 29. The tour starts at 3:30 p.m. at Port Norfolk at ... Read more.

The status of convicted killer Sean Ellis’s motion for a new trial, which is based on his contention that during his trial in 1995 prosecutors did not, as required, turn over to his defense counsel exculpatory information ... Read more.

(Editor’s Note: Due to popular demand, we are pleased to reprint Mary Casey Forry’s classic column about her schedule of activities around the house for Thanksgiving Day. This article first appeared in the Dorchester ... Read more.

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