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One side of the Forest Hills MBTA station platform closed this week to allow for continued work at the station as part of the Casey Arborway reconstruction project. Crews will be performing electrical work in preparation ... Read more.

CVS Pharmacy will require its staff to check the state’s prescription monitoring program database before filling certain abuse-associated opioid prescriptions under a newly announced settlement with Attorney General Maura ... Read more.

Dorchester resident Vincent F. Rocchio, PhD, has just published his third book, “Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism.” Rocchio, 55, will celebrate the launch of the book ... Read more.

Through the generosity of the Free For All Concert Fund, Ashmont Hill Chamber Music will be presenting Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble members Mike Block, cello and tabla player Sandeep Das in a concert on September 18, at ... Read more.

Boston Public Schools officials have made no determination on potential closings, but they are ramping up efforts to monitor student needs and activities throughout the course of this year, said Superintendent Tommy Chang ... Read more.

Two Dorchester incumbents in the House of Representatives are seeking to stave off challenges to their seats today: Rep. Daniel Cullinane has two challengers as he seeks his second full term: Jovan Lacet, a Mattapan ... Read more.

The population of UMass Boston is becoming increasingly multigenerational, and one reason for the mix is the number of Dorchester’s senior citizens who attend and, in many cases, teach classes through the university’s ... Read more.

The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) has honored Daniel J. Driscoll, President and CEO of Harbor Health Services with the Cornell Scott Excellence in Leadership Award. The award honors outstanding ... Read more.

Mattapan Community Health Center (MCHC) will host its 20th annual Health Care Revival on Saturday, September 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Boston Public Health Commission Campus at 249 River St., Mattapan. The ... Read more.

The Fields Corner Civic Association considered proposals for two neighborhood developments at their monthly meeting on Tuesday night, paving the way to an opening for an Asian-inspired bakery while waiting on more ... Read more.

An attempt to rezone two parcels of Cedar Grove Cemetery land abutting Granite Avenue was put on hold on at a zoning hearing Wednesday after neighbors and Zoning Commission members aired concerns about the future use of ... Read more.

A Dorchester man was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail Tuesday on charges he drunkenly ran down a woman crossing Morton Street Saturday night.

Johnette Sims, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene on Morton ... Read more.

State Police report Johnette Sims, 46, of Dorchester, died around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday when hit by a drunk driver on Morton Street at Canterbury Street, across from the VFW post.

State Police say Anthony Buchanan ... Read more.

Updated: Boston Police reported on Friday that Ms. Bynoe was found and is safe.

Boston Police are asking for the public's help to locate an elderly woman who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and was last ... Read more.

Jodie Baehre is a powerhouse. At the age of 33, she’s a full-time artist advocating for the cultural community of Boston with her ultra-vivid and innovative perspective on Boston’s city landscape – its rooftops, steeples ... Read more.

Dorchester developer Douglas George is proposing a large residential development for a swath of Massachusetts Avenue occupied until recently by a car dealership and industrial firms.

The Development company ... Read more.

Paralympic runner Chaz Davis, who is legally blind, won the annual Martin Richard Memorial One Mile Invitational, which was held on Aug. 18 at Moakley Park in South Boston. The event honors the life of Dorchester’s own ... Read more.

Citizens Energy co-founder and former Perkins School for the Blind President Steven Rothstein has been selected as the new executive director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the organization announced Tuesday ... Read more.

With one week until the Sept. 8 primary election, several Dorchester and Mattapan incumbents are seeking to stave off challenges to their seats while others are running unopposed, among them state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry ... Read more.

The campaign supporting a ballot question to allow additional charter schools in Massachusetts on Tuesday launched a new television ad aimed at highlighting the successes of charter schools and the options they provide ... Read more.

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