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The young guys were finished with their warm-ups on the basketball court at Ronan Park in Dorchester and getting ready to choose sides for a game. Small problem: They only had nine players on hand. “Hey, Pops, how about ... Read more.

Thursday (31st) – Soul City Band performs live in concert at Dorchester Park at 7 p.m. The free show starts at 7 p.m. The stage will be located on the Adams Street side of the park in the “bowl” baseball ... Read more.

Something leafy and green is growing on top of three bus shelters along the Fairmont Line–and that’s the plan. The $15,000 pilot project is aimed at showing community members how roofs laden with green plants such as ... Read more.

Four finalists have been selected in the quest to erect a major public art project dedicated to freedom in Fields Corner’s Town Field.

All four submissions chosen by the Vietnamese American Initiative for ... Read more.

Folks planning to take a stroll around Columbia Point’s Harbor Walk will have to take a road less traveled through detours as crews work to rehabilitate the pathway and shoreline through the end of the year.

The ... Read more.

Two of the five gubernatorial hopefuls gave Dorchester some love this week in the hopes its voters would return the sentiment in the fall.

Returning to Dorchester for the first time since the Dot Day Parade, ... Read more.

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!”

Last week, local audiences obligingly lent their ears to this famous speech and the rest of “Julius Caesar” during two free public performances starring a cast of ... Read more.

Calendar journalism is huge this year. Haunting as well as exhaustive are the endless reflections on the centennial of World War I’s dramatic beginning, about to explode with the booming of the guns of August 1914 soon to ... Read more.

More than 18 months after kicking off the 2013-2014 session, Democratic legislative leaders on Beacon Hill are playing a familiar game, leaving high-stakes issues up in the air until the final moments allotted for major ... Read more.

Dr. Theodore Landsmark, the president and CEO of Boston Architectural College, has been tapped as a member of the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s board of directors. Mayor Martin Walsh’s office announced the appointment ... Read more.

Ed Forry, the co-founder and longtime publisher of the Reporter, was treated for minor injuries sustained when he was assaulted and robbed by an unknown assailant in Dorchester Park on Sunday afternoon. Forry, 69, was ... Read more.

When Marcy Goldstein-Gelb hears something described as a “freak accident,” a buzzer goes off in her head.

Executive director of the Dorchester-based Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health ( ... Read more.

Mattapan’s Rashad Cope, director of the Wheelock College and Mattahunt Community Center, graduated from Wheelock College in May with a master’s degree in Educational Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Organizational ... Read more.

Police officers were in legitimate fear for their lives when they fired at a man reaching for a gun in Mattapan on June 2 of last year, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said Friday.

In a ... Read more.

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