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Gov. Baker last on Friday continued his lame-duck streak of recommending pardons and commutations, proposing that a convicted murderer once sentenced to death after killing two people in Dorchester be made eligible for ... Read more.
MBTA officials are continuing to discover structural issues with JFK/UMass station, a key transit hub located in Dorchester’s Columbia-Savin Hill neighborhood. They've also discovered similar issues at the Savin Hill MBTA ... Read more.
The Mattapan Square Main Streets has been revived with new leadership that is going to canvass the community to re-imagine and re-brand the area for businesses and residents.
With Black Fridays and Small Business ... Read more.
6:15 a.m. - Rise and attempt to shine. Find way to kitchen without falling over sleeping animals on the dark, narrow, back stairs. Remove cold, dead fowl from refrigerator and give it a sponge bath, remembering to remove ... Read more.
The rehabilitation of 150 abandoned and unkempt lots that have sustained blight throughout sections of the city over the last 40 years – Dorchester and Mattapan are home to about 70 of them – will soon provide profitable ... Read more.
The rehabilitation of 150 abandoned and unkempt lots that have sustained blight throughout sections of the city over the last 40 years – Dorchester and Mattapan are home to about 70 of them – will soon provide profitable ... Read more.
Hundreds of families, friends, and teammates of Thomas Lucas, 12, came out last Wednesday night at the Devine Rink for a fundraiser to support him and the Lucas family as the young man battles through treatments for non- ... Read more.
George Huynh will leave the mayor’s office next month to take over as the new executive director of VietAID, according to the Charles Street-based organization’s board of directors. He starts the new position on Dec. 1 ... Read more.
“I want to say something beautiful about Dorchester with your portraits.”
That’s the simple, but lovely sentiment behind Mike Ritter’s ‘Beautiful Dot’ photo project, which he staged at six Boston Public Library ... Read more.
Many years ago, the only experience most people in Dorchester and Mattapan had with turkeys was on the last Thursday of November, and those specimens usually came frozen and ready for the oven.
While the gobblers ... Read more.
The development team behind residential towers and lab space planned for Morrissey Blvd. south of the JFK/UMass MBTA station fielded questions virtual style last Wednesday from a community advisory group about their plans ... Read more.
New Jersey-based Michaels Organization, the developer behind 800 Morrissey, a project comprising a six-story building with 229 residences rising up next to Boston Bowl, says it has reached an agreement in principle with ... Read more.
Thelma D. Burns, a longtime community activist, nurse, advocate and volunteer, has died. She was 85. Her family announced her passing in a Facebook post the next day.
“It is with heavy hearts that we share the news ... Read more.
The Boston Irish Wolfhounds, led by their captain, Paul Taylor of Dorchester, emerged victorious last Saturday against Portland at the New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) finals held at the Irish Cultural Centre in ... Read more.
There are a number of diseases that impact humans as well as our pets, and one that has become more common in the past few years is diabetes.
According to a recent study that included data from 43 states and 3 ... Read more.
The wife of David Jones, the Boston University professor who died after falling through missing steps on a rickety ... Read more.
Ahead of Prince William’s visit in the first week of December for the Earthshot Prize, the JFK Library Foundation has announced the local host committee made up of representatives from local environmental groups, ... Read more.
President Biden’s plan for federal student loan-debt forgiveness has come as a sigh of relief for millions of Americans who together owe nearly $1.75 trillion in student loan debt – $31 billion of that in Massachusetts ... Read more.
To the Editor:
As we continue to see the level of gun violence and physical assaults grow in parts of Mattapan and Dorchester, the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) is requesting that the Mayor’s Office ... Read more.
Lots of MBTA passengers are raving about the long-awaited cars rolling out onto the Orange and Red Lines. Even better, the MBTA says service is mostly back to normal after lengthy shutdowns of the Orange and Green lines. ... Read more.
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