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The United State Postal Inspection Service is offering reward worth up to $150,000 for information that leads to the arrest of a suspect who robbed a letter carrier at gunpoint in Mattapan on Oct. 18. It was the latest in ... Read more.
The energy to improve long-neglected Codman Square Park in the heart of Dorchester Center was so great that the community sparked the Parks Department to take action and join in the momentum.
That grassroots effort ... Read more.
Train service on the Ashmont branch of the Red Line resumed on Monday morning to positive reviews from passengers and T officials, who hailed a 16-day October “surge” to make track and station improvements as a success ... Read more.
The city’s newest police officers were sworn-in by Mayor Wu and Commissioner Michael Cox on Friday, Oct. 27 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The graduating class is one of the most diverse in the city’s ... Read more.
Polls open on Tuesday, 7 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Boston’s local election cycle toggles between higher turnout years, with campaigns for City Council and Mayor, and “off years,” with only a race for the ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans for a 41-unit, five-story apartment building at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. at Culbert Street in Mattapan.
Eight ... Read more.
The City of Boston began posting notices around Mass. and Cass on Thursday to notify those who live on the street that the city will start removing tents used as homeless encampments on Nov. 1.
While the ... Read more.
For award-winning seventh grade math teacher Connell Cloyd of the Henderson Upper School, the secret to reaching a tough age group in a subject like math is to be crazier than they are.
The 43-year-old Cloyd, a ... Read more.
More than 100 runners and walkers took part in the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) Neighborhood Fitness Series presented by Boston Children’s Hospital on Oct. 14 in Pope John Paul II Park in Dorchester.
Athletes ... Read more.
A proposal to rename a playground in Ronan Park after the late Maryann Hanley, an 11-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in the park in 1983, continues to roil the neighborhood in controversy, with family members ... Read more.
MassHousing on Monday announced $44.6 million in financing for six new homeownership development projects across the state, including two in Dorchester and one in Mattapan. The local projects are 120-122 Hancock St. in ... Read more.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD) has served as a safe haven and caring environment for the neighborhood’s kids for more than fifty years. But the organization is also helping parents — many of them single ... Read more.
The Green Equity Partnership (GEP) held its kick-off celebration in Four Corners on Monday with an eye on training existing construction workers and those interested in jobs in sustainable construction trades. State and ... Read more.
Industry pressures nationwide have led the Mass Biologics Lab (MBL) in Mattapan to make significant layoffs this year and rethink its strategy regarding its plans for growth on its Walk Hill Street campus.
A year ... Read more.
To the Editor:
Like so many current residents, I am deeply concerned about the growing issue of housing affordability in Dorchester. The struggle to resolve it is already at a crisis level and the situation is only ... Read more.
Dorchester native Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s The Last Word, and Tennessee State Representative Justin J. Pearson of the “Tennessee Three” will engage in a keynote conversation during ABCD’s Community Heroes ... Read more.
On Nov. 7, voters in Dorchester will choose between two finalists— John FitzGerald and Joel Richards — to succeed Frank Baker as District 3’s city councillor.
Last Thursday (Oct. 19), the candidates were invited to ... Read more.
From the curb, Mark Kennedy’s home on Centre Street in Roxbury looks like most others on his block: tidy, well-kept, and inviting. But the house, a single-family residence built in 1850, features a cellar that that he ... Read more.
A controversial proposal to build an affordable housing complex on Centre Street next to Shawmut MBTA station will get a crucial hearing before the board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) at a meeting ... Read more.
A series of internal struggles has hit Lena Park Community Development Corporation (CDC) over the past several months. Yet another executive director was fired during the summer and yet another board chair resigned this ... Read more.
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