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Is there a place in front of your home or business that looks like a good location to plant a tree? The Boston Parks and Recreation Department has 150 surplus trees and wants to plant them before their spring planting ... Read more.
Families of Boston Public School students will be briefed by school officials at two meetings early this week after water fountains being tested for lead exposure were mistakenly left operational, officials said.
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The Boston Police Department reports the arrest of the final suspect in the shooting deaths of Clarence McGregor, 25, of Dorchester ... Read more.
Updated May 6, 12 p.m. -- With construction projects crisscrossing its campus, UMass Boston officials last Wednesday hosted the university’s annual community forum to update the public on several campus ... Read more.
Home.stead bakery and cafe was officially welcomed to the neighborhood Friday morning. Two months after the bakery first opened ... Read more.
The 20th annual Mother's Walk for Peace, launched as a fundraiser to support the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute in Fields Corner, will expand its scope this year and lead thousands of marchers from Dorchester to Boston ... Read more.
Almost 30 years ago, the newly formed Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative took a bold step to make housing affordable in the devastated strip between Uphams Corner and Dudley Square. Last Wednesday, more than 100 people ... Read more.
Ashmont Hill’s historic homes will be on display on Sunday, June 12, featured in the Dorchester Historical Society’s resurrection of the classic house tours dating back to the 1970s. Homeowners will stand at the ready to ... Read more.
Making use of the $525,000 bike-sharing grant awarded to Boston in April by the Barr Foundation, Hubway will install 10 new stations in Roxbury and Dorchester, Mayor Martin Walsh announced last week.
The bike- ... Read more.
John Fitzgerald hasn’t stepped into a boxing ring since he was a 12 year-old training at the McKeon Post. But he’ll give it a go again on May 19 when he tries to knock out cancer— and his opponent—at the Haymakers for ... Read more.
The biggest news to come out of the April 30 “Greatest Party on Earth” at Southie’s Artists for Humanity (AFH) EpiCenter was that this youth arts and enterprise organization plans to more than triple the size of its Fort ... Read more.
The Feeney brothers, Greg and Brendan, who operate a private utility contractor company in Dorchester, have been investing in their work force through a training program conducted at Bunker Hill Community College. The two ... Read more.
Community leaders pushed back forcefully against a detox facility proposed by the nonprofit Bay Cove Human Services for 43 Freeport St. at the monthly meeting of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association Monday night, ... Read more.
More than 600 volunteers affiliated with Comcast descended on Codman Square last Saturday as part of Comcast Cares Day, a company-wide volunteer effort. The Dorchester work included painting and clean up projects at Tech ... Read more.
Dorchester is one of the Massachusetts communities making strides toward better health through the statewide anti-obesity initiative Mass in Motion, according to a report by the Boston Foundation.
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The city’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) has announced a newly revamped rental registration ordinance that will require all privately owned rental units to be registered with the city of Boston on an annual basis ... Read more.
City Councillor Andrea Campbell facilitated several discussions over the last week on a proposed body-worn camera pilot program for the Boston Police Department.
On Tuesday, May 3, the city council ... Read more.
Volunteers found many types of litter alongside the Neponset River on a recent weekend morning – barnacle-crusted beer bottles, polystyrene foam chunks, old tennis balls - but one type – the plastic bag – has been getting ... Read more.
Chronic health issues plague Dorchester at higher rates than the Boston average, according to a 2015 community health needs assessment overseen by DotHouse Health. The survey, which was presented at a forum last Thursday ... Read more.
While several state senators and representatives can sit securely in their seats for another term due to a lack of opposition in this year’s election, some familiar names have submitted signatures for certification and a ... Read more.
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