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A longtime Mattapan Square supermarket is now under new ownership and management. The former Farmers Warehouse Market on Cummins Highway has been purchased by America’s Food Basket, a chain with locations in both Boston ... Read more.
From her table in the back corner of Ramsay/Toy VFW Post #8872 on Woodrow Avenue, Post manager Marie Carrington spends Sunday evenings inspired by the sounds of Dorchester saxophonist Kurtis Rivers and his band. ... Read more.
When Ayanna Pressley ran for City Council At-Large in 2009, six other Dorchester residents were on the ballot. Pressley, a Chicago native and former aide to John Kerry, had moved into the neighborhood the previous ... Read more.
A bombastic Roxbury activist, Jamarhl Crawford, plans to wage a write-in campaign for the District 7 City Council seat. Councillor Tito Jackson, a former aide to Gov. Deval Patrick who won the seat in a 2011 special ... Read more.
“Wicked!” and “Awesome!”
That’s the general reaction of Boston audiences to the long-awaited return of “Wicked,” the hit musical about what really went down in the far-from-marvelous Land of Oz. Running now through ... Read more.
Candice Gartley has taken on the position of Executive Director at the All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) located in Fields Corner. Gartley succeeds Jared Blandino, who has been at the helm in recent years of growth at ... Read more.
The Fairmount Greenway Task Force will host “Fairmount Greenway on the Move,” a guided bike tour along the proposed Fairmount Greenway route this Saturday.
According to Fairmount Greenway Project Manager Michelle ... Read more.
The Boston Landmarks Commission on Tuesday night took testimony from proponents and opponents of granting landmark status to a dilapidated ... Read more.
The second part of DotNews.com's video survey of the candidates running for mayor of Boston focuses on education. Ten members of the 12-person field offer differing views on the city's school committee, charter school cap ... Read more.
City Councillor Rob Consalvo’s mayoral campaign unveiled its first TV spot on Monday night. The ad, titled “All In for Boston,” notes that he worked for the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy and his support for a felony gun ... Read more.
Polls open at 7 a.m. in a special state primary for the 12th Suffolk House District. With Linda Dorcena Forry taking a seat in the state Senate, the vacancy has drawn a number of Democratic and independent candidates. ... Read more.
Finishing off a victorious summer season, the Dorchester Red Sox softball team beat a fellow Dot team, the Dorchester Rangers, last week to claim the citywide championship . In an exciting first game last Tuesday night, ... Read more.
Alarmed by dilapidated conditions that amount to "demolition by neglect," city officials today seized control of a historic Mattapan property that has fallen into acute disrepair in recent years.
The Fowler-Clark ... Read more.
Group will hold off on endorsement until after prelim
DotOUT, an influential group of gay and lesbian activists in Dorchester, is staying out of the mayoral preliminary, with no endorsement until ... Read more.
On a rainy Wednesday, a month before he announced that he wasn’t running for another term, Mayor Thomas Menino walked, with the help of a cane, through the lobby of East Boston Neighborhood Health Center’s Maverick Square ... Read more.
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