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Workshops centered on the cleanup of the Lower Neponset River get underway in earnest this week, with the first of three set for Thursday evening in Milton. The session will be both in-person and virtual inside the Milton ... Read more.

To the Editor:

Thank you to our Seventh Congressional District representative, Ayanna Pressley, on her signing last month of the letter to the Biden administration advising negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. ... Read more.

For a second time this year, Dorchester Youth Hockey (DYH) families and the community at large are rallying around a young player recently diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Thomas Lucas, 12, was diagnosed with ... Read more.

On Fri., Oct. 28, the Construction Leadership Council of the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts (AGC MA) renovated and restored the McLaughlin Center and the Marr Clubhouse of the Boys & Girls Club of ... Read more.

Boston Police and the Mattapan leaders found themselves aligned on Monday night during a conversation meant to fill a “void” of information and direction that has left the neighborhood in shock following a slate of ... Read more.

Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday formally ended a raucous political brouhaha on Monday when she signed off on a map that redraws the boundaries of the nine City Council districts a year before voters go to the polls for the ... Read more.

For Maura Healey and Andrea Campbell, Tuesday’s election was a day to set some markers.

Healey, a South End resident, easily dispatched her Republican opponent for governor to become the first woman, and the first ... Read more.

Polls opened at 7 am, with statewide offices, Congressional and State House races, and policy questions on the ballot. Polls are set to close at 8 pm.

The statewide offices include governor, lieutenant governor, ... Read more.

108 Wooward St. after fire

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 108 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester for ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports two people were shot, one fatally, at 10 Orlando St. in Mattapan around 9:10 p.m. on Sunday, followed by another person shot at 92 Westview St. in Franklin Field around 9:40 p.m.

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While the owners of Chez Vous roller rink make their living moving on wheels, the family-owned business isn’t going anywhere. The smell of fried chicken, a freshly polished maple wood floor, and the sound of rolling ... Read more.

To the editor:

Massachusetts patients are not getting enough out of their dental insurance premiums. Studies show that 1 in 4 Massachusetts residents do not have dental insurance and 16.6% have avoided necessary ... Read more.

Arthur Jemison, who took over as Mayor Michelle Wu’s chief of planning in May, recently sat down with the Dorchester Reporter to talk about his first six months on the job, moving back to the Ashmont-Adams area and other ... Read more.

An effort to reshape Mattapan into a “10-minute neighborhood” and add housing density could come with financial and logistical help for homeowners looking to add units to their lots, Mayor Michelle Wu’s chief of city ... Read more.

The Dorchester-based Joseph J. Corcoran Company and its public and private partners recently broke ground on a unique project in Chelsea, Massachusetts. At the Innes Redevelopment, 96 units of public housing built in the ... Read more.

Fields Corner residents, asked to decide between two finalists for the better use of a ground-level retail space in the new Dot Crossing apartment building now under construction next to the MBTA station, voted to support ... Read more.

Boston Police are asking for the public's help to identify a young woman who was found dead in a historic cemetery near Codman Square on Monday night.

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After weeks of acerbic arguments and backbiting over the city’s political boundaries, councillors voted 9 to 4 to send Mayor Wu a City Council map that reshapes districts anchored in Dorchester and South Boston.

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The Walgreens store at 90 River St. in Mattapan is slated to close within a month, a move that drew comments from the neighborhood’s city councillor. The store was formerly a Rite Aid Pharmacy before being renovated and ... Read more.

Hundreds of goblins, werewolves and superheroes populated Pope John Paul II Park on Thursday night, Oct. 17 for the annual Pumpkin Parade, which has been ongoing for many years (previously it was the Pumpkin Float). ... Read more.

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