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Noa Taylor, a member of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD), is pictured with Boston Police Superintendent Nora Baston. Taylor portrayed Baston during a Living History presentation staged by club members at the ... Read more.

Mattapan native Bianca Sullivan was honored as a Hero Among Us at the Boston Celtics home game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Feb. 27 as part of the team’s celebration of Historically Black Colleges and Universities ( ... Read more.

A $10,000 raffle drawing event to benefit Saint Brendan church will be held this Friday, March 8, from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at Florian Hall, 55 Hallet St., Dorchester. Drawing tickets are $100 each and you do ... Read more.

City Councillor-at-Large Erin Murphy is said to be planning a run for a new office this fall: Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County. According to Politico, Murphy will seek to replace the current clerk, ... Read more.

Mayor Wu needed a win. And while it might prove to be a costly one in the near-term, she got one last week in the form of a legacy public works project on Blue Hill Avenue.

Last Thursday, ... Read more.

Dorchester residents are invited to take a “virtual walk” with Anita Danker via Zoom on Sat., March 9 at 3 p.m. as she guides participants through the presentation “On the Trail of Women’s History: From Uphams Corner to ... Read more.

Boston voters went to the polls on Tuesday to complete balloting for the presidential primary. President Joe Biden was, by far, the top vote getter, receiving 40,141 votes or 77 percent of the those cast by those who ... Read more.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that restored former President Donald Trump's name to the Colorado ballot makes it "all the more important" for voters to express their opinions in presidential primaries, Massachusetts' ... Read more.

On Tuesday, March 5, community members are invited to participate in a conversation via Zoom about the potential sites for new signage along Dorchester’s section of the Boston Harborwalk.

At the meeting, graduate ... Read more.

Fire on Bowdoin Street

The Boston Fire Department reports a three-alarm fire at 418 Bowdoin St. displaced one resident and sent one firefighter to the hospital after it broke out around 6 ... Read more.

Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh could soon be due for his second U.S. Senate confirmation hearing.

President Joe Biden on Thursday nominated Walsh, a lifelong Dorchester resident who spent more than two years as ... Read more.

The Irish Pastoral Centre in Dorchester will kick off its month of March events on Sun., March 3, with an Open House showcasing its recent expansion into additional ground floor space at its Adams Corner offices and ... Read more.

Officials from the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) presented a handful of potential new designs for the Neponset Spray Deck located inside a popular riverside park during a public meeting held on ... Read more.

The current crisis in Massachusetts health care, driven by Steward Health Care’s financial meltdown, has its roots in the predatory practices of Wall Street investors that destroy institutions long after they have left ... Read more.

A six-story apartment building that has been under construction for two years on a high-profile stretch of Morrissey Boulevard next to the expressway is welcoming its first tenants this week.

Imprint Boston ... Read more.

Residents of Dorchester — and six other neighborhoods across the city — will be able to grab a beer in a local park this summer if a City Hall plan for mobile beer gardens finds a vendor.

The city’s Parks and ... Read more.

To the Editor:

Jesse Kanson-Benanav’s letter to the editor (Feb. 15), which critiqued a letter I co-authored that was published in the Boston Guardian in its Jan. 5 edition, misidentified the causes of Boston’s ... Read more.

Dorchester’s own “Renovation Husbands” – David and Stephen St. Russell – were the big winners in HGTV’s “Battle on the Mountain” on Monday. The final episode of the six-week home improvement series ended in triumph for ... Read more.

Like most cities across the United States, Boston has been coming to terms with the roles its ancestor residents played in the enslavement and trafficking of Black African and Indigenous peoples in the Northeast and the ... Read more.

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