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The Codman Square Holiday event took place on Dec. 3 in conjunction with the Enchanted Trolley tour stop there. Despite inclement weather, more than 150 people showed up and 150 toys were given away. The Codman Square ... Read more.

Few dared to venture out into the treacherous winds and sheets of rain that soaked the region on Monday, but the monsoon-like conditions were no deterrence to the men and women of the National Guard’s 164th Transportation ... Read more.

The Nutcracker, staged by the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre company, returns to the Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner from Sat., Dec. 9 and running to Christmas Eve. Ticket prices for public shows run anywhere from $25 to $90 ... Read more.

The former Ashmont Grill site at 555 Talbot Ave. has been sold to a South Boston developer who has signed on the Black-owned Lobzter King catering company to open a full-service restaurant there –a venture that will be ... Read more.

Mayor Wu’s office says the Mattahunt Community Center in Mattapan is on track to re-open in the new year after an extensive renovation project that has been hindered by significant delays. The work at the city-owned ... Read more.

The Healey-Driscoll Administration last Thursday announced $13 million for park improvements and open space acquisitions across Massachusetts, including a $500,000 grant for the upcoming renovation of Walsh Playground. ... Read more.

The Dorchester Elite Eagles U14 Pop Warner football team and the Boston Lady Raiders Bantam cheer team celebrated in awesome fashion Saturday afternoon as they rode up front in the neighborhood’s first-ever national title ... Read more.

The city of Boston, in the persons of Mayor Michelle Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox, planned to issue an apology on Wednesday to two men and to the residents of the Mission Hill neighborhood for how they were ... Read more.

Whether it was pandemic-related supply chain issues, or even the war in Ukraine, any number of setbacks seemed likely to thwart the construction of Dot Crossing, the five-story apartment building and bookstore at 1463- ... Read more.

Boston City Council meetings typically start with an invocation by a member of the clergy. So it was on Wed., Dec. 13, the date of the last meeting of 2023, with Rev. Joseph M. White, the pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in ... Read more.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced Edwin Tavarez, 48, of Garfield, NJ to 18 months in prison for the way he got a longtime acquaintance in the old neighborhood to pay him more than $1.5 million over six years for a condo ... Read more.

Last Saturday was a major anniversary for the Boston Tea Party, which happened 250 years ago on December 16, 1773. The Tea Party was a major escalation in the era’s conflict between the American colonies and the United ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Roxbury woman on charges she stabbed four people at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 240 Mt. Vernon St., around 4:25 ... Read more.

For thousands of households across Dorchester, there’s a dog or a cat—or perhaps both—that are cherished members of their families. For 14 years, until she died last month, we were blessed with Emma, a mini-Australian ... Read more.

Freeing feminine identity from fairy-tale trappings

Two Dorchester women are featured performers in a new production of the choreographer Kristin Wagner’s “For You, I Dream of Me,” a show that ... Read more.

The housing market pendulum that swung low in Boston’s poorest neighborhoods during the Great Recession has swung back and held steady, with a new wave of investors chasing profits and capitalizing on a tight regional ... Read more.

The Sant Bel Vi adult daycare center celebrated its 15th year of day services for older adults of Haitian heritage at its location on Frontenac Street last Friday (Dec. 9). The center was packed with special guests and ... Read more.

Amidst an atmosphere pulsating with festive enthusiasm and camaraderie, Dorchester’s Pope John Paul Park II came alive last Saturday as hundreds of runners converged at the edge of the Neponset River for the Dorchester ... Read more.

A front-page story in last week’s Reporter about student-athletes at TechBoston Academy and their inability to train ... Read more.

Rental assistance aid totaling $7.9 million went to 1,604 Dorchester households in the last fiscal year, according to the agency that administers the program. That’s the largest share in the region, according to ... Read more.

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