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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.

A gala celebration this evening marks the kick-off of the centennial festivities of The Guild of Boston Artists, known as “Boston’s premier source for contemporary realism.”

Founded in 1914, this non-profit ... Read more.

People from Dorchester are well acquainted with the imposing blue shape set against the horizon just along our southern boundary. It’s Great Blue Hill, and at 635 feet above sea level, it is the tallest coastal elevation ... Read more.

Developers and architects introduced a 92-unit residential housing plan that would replace a forlorn industrial block between Dorchester Avenue and Hancock Streets to the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association Planning ... Read more.

A new report on how black and Latino male students are doing in the Boston Public Schools points out stark racial disparities in educational opportunities and outcomes, assertions that have elicited promises of ... Read more.

The 16-acre New Boston Food Market on the South Boston-Dorchester line, a vital cog in Boston’s food supply chain, is once again in the crosshairs of powerful redevelopment forces, despite the fact that its current ... Read more.

The proposed closure of Quincy Medical Center has been pushed back to Feb. 4, 2015, and the attorney general's office on Tuesday raised the possibility of legal action against the hospital's owners.

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A Jamaica Plain man collared in September after allegedly firing gunshots near Ashmont Station has been indicted for first-degree murder in a separate case. A grand jury has charged Johnnie Bonnie, 22, with the June 29 ... Read more.

City Councillor Tito Jackson has not ruled out a potential override effort from the City Council after Mayor Martin Walsh nixed Jackson’s proposed Commission on Black and Latino Men and Boys on Monday.

“Any veto ... 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 ... Read more.

After a lengthy period of public discussion where few passions were left unnoted, the Casey Arborway Project has moved into the first stages of its operational phase with the awarding of the construction contract to ... Read more.

A fight inside the South Bay Target led to two women being stabbed inside the store early Monday evening, Boston police said.

The altercation took place inside the Target store, with a man and a woman attacking two ... Read more.

A Dorchester woman who stabbed her "abusive boyfriend to death this summer was acting in self-defense and will not face criminal charges," according to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.

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Decrying lackluster education around the state and calling on new leaders to do better, activists and students rallied in front of Faneuil Hall Thursday morning.

The rally was organized by Families for Excellent ... Read more.

The All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) dedicated a city-owned field house in Fields Corner to longtime coach and mentor Jim Collyer on Sat., Nov 9. Mayor Martin Walsh spoke at the event which was also attended by State ... Read more.

Thursday (13th) – Community forum on future of Mattahunt Community Center in Mattapan, 5:30-7:30p.m., 100 Hebron St., Mattapan.

Friday (14th) – Elizabeth Seton Academy Autumn ... Read more.

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