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Last week the beloved Big Apple Circus returned to City Hall Plaza with its 34th season show “Dream Big,” and 19th-century French author Jules Verne must have been smiling down from on high.

Verne, the Father of ... Read more.

In the midst of a building boom, UMass Boston officials plan in the coming weeks to push ahead with a proposed revamping of the Columbia Point campus’s roadways. The university will host a public meeting next Monday at 6 ... Read more.

The White House this week honored Emmett Folgert, the founder and executive director of the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, for his anti-youth violence work. He is one of twelve people the Obama administration has ... Read more.

The Lucy Stone School near Codman Square — which has been unoccupied since it closed its doors in 2009 — will become the new home of 75 students of the Roxbury Preparatory Charter School this month.

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A federal jury this week convicted a Department of Neighborhood Development program manager of defrauding the government in two separate scams related to her house on Dix Street.

Celia Thomas, 49, of 10 Dix St., ... Read more.

The White House plans on Wednesday to honor Emmett Folgert, the founder and executive director of the Dorchester Youth Collaborative, for his anti-youth violence work. Folgert is one of twelve people the Obama ... Read more.

A Dorchester man was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run at Neponset Circle that sent a state trooper to the hospital with multiple injuries this morning.

Brandon Smith, 25, of 12 Westerville Terrace, was ... Read more.

John Hancock Financial will donate $1 million over the next five years to Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy. The gift, announced on Monday at the Academy’s Columbia Campus in Dorchester, will be used to support ... Read more.

The fifth annual Adams Corner Crawl across Dorchester, which honors the memory of Sgt. Adam P. Kennedy, a Norfolk, Mass. native with cousins in Dot, will be held a week from Saturday, April 7. Sgt. Kennedy, a sergeant in ... Read more.

“The Crusher Casey Challenge Race” – the name peals formidably, and rightfully so for a family the Boston Globe once called “the toughest family on earth.”

On St. Patrick’s Day 2012, the Riverside Boat Club, on ... Read more.

Officials from the city’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) have slapped a Mattapan man with a $3,000 fine after he was caught dumping yard waste on to a vacant property at 77 Dix St.

Officers with the Code ... Read more.

The roof of Darling Washington’s three-decker on Meetinghouse Hill has a leak. And through a new Department of Neighborhood Development program focusing on that particular kind of housing stock, the single homeowner will ... Read more.

Boston Public School officials heard all manner of responses from parents in Dorchester and Roxbury last Saturday at administration-led community meetings where the talking point was the ongoing reassessment of the ... Read more.

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