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The annual Little Miss/Young Miss Dorchester contest was held May 14 at the First Parish Church on Meetinghouse Hill. The event is held each year in the spring for girls ages 7 to 12. The purpose of the event is to ... Read more.
Arthur Samuels, who once ran Bank of America's Fields Corner branch, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution for his role in ... Read more.
The National Parks of Boston will unveil and dedicate a replica a cannon brought to Dorchester Heights from Fort Ticonderoga during the 1776 Siege of Boston this Saturday morning at 11 a.m. The cannon will remain on ... Read more.
Beantown Athletics on Granite Avenue serves a host of sports-related needs for the neighborhood all year-long. This week, they are busy outfitting Dorchester for our biggest celebration of the year: Dorchester Day.
... Read more.The Boston Police Department reports a man was fatally shot around 10:20 p.m. at 131 Devon St., near Columbia Road, around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday.
Police found the man, shot in the chest, at 152 Stanwood St., which ... Read more.
Fifty years ago, Jack Cunningham, a pilot in the US Marine Corps, was a crew member of the presidential helicopter Marine One that ferried Lyndon B. Johnson and his staff to their destinations.
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Command Sgt. Maj. Curtis Johnson, a Dorchester native, retired after 32 years of active service in the US Army on May 13 with a ceremonial send-off at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
The 51-year-old ... Read more.
It is an all-too common pattern in the world of real estate: Small, occupied properties enter the market and are immediately snapped up by owners or investors. The investors empty the properties by evicting tenants, ... Read more.
Boston's list of distressed properties is a few Dorchester homes lighter this year. Two properties in the neighborhood are headed toward rehabilitation and refurbishment, according to the Department of Neighborhood ... Read more.
Community members will have another chance to comment on the Indigo Block redevelopment project next Wednesday when the Boston Redevelopment Authority will be presenting an update on the long-vacant 2.75-acre site in ... Read more.
Lower Mills Tavern will open next week
Dorchester’s newest restaurant, the Lower Mills Tavern, will officially open its doors next week, just in time for Dorchester Day. It’s worth the wait ... Read more.
The Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation will make a $3 million gift for the park being constructed along Fort Point Channel in honor of Martin W. Richard, the Dorchester boy who was the youngest victim of the Boston ... Read more.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh on Tuesday will travel to the nation's capital at the invitation of President Obama to address the White House State and Local Gun Violence Prevention Convening on steps communities can take to ... Read more.
The Boston Public Library Board of Trustees over the weekend voted to offer the job of president of the Boston Public Library to Jill Bourne, city librarian for the San Jose Public Library since 2013. Bourne was deputy ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man in his 20s was shot shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday at 87 Southern Ave., near Darlington Street.
He was transported to Boston Medical Center, where he died.
Anyone ... Read more.
A Dorchester man charged with firing a bullet that grazed a 52-year-old woman's head as she was leaving church in Codman Square was actually aiming at two men who were arguing nearby, a prosecutor said today.
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The Boston Police Department reports arresting James Martin, 22, on charges he fired the shot that sent a woman who'd just left church to the hospital last Friday afternoon.
Police charge that Martin pulled out a ... Read more.
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