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Senior constituents and their caregivers focused on health care, housing, and transportation as they gathered on Tuesday at the 1st Suffolk District Health and Wellness fair at UMass Boston’s new Integrated Sciences ... Read more.

Thursday (29th) – Mattapan Square Main Streets hosts community meeting to discuss proposed new tenant Golden Krust to replace McDonald’s in business district. 6 p.m. at Mattapan Community Health Center, ... Read more.

As the countdown clock ticks down to election day District 4 City Councillor Charles Yancey and challenger Andrea Campbell continue to rack up endorsements and brace for the final push.

Yancey, first elected in ... Read more.

City councillors and Police Commissioner William Evans spoke firmly in support of an ordinance that would allow officers to confiscate replica firearms, which the Commissioner said are being used in situations that put ... Read more.

Suspect under arrest on Pleasant Street

A man on his way to work around 10 p.m. on Monday was robbed by two men in white plastic masks after he had exited the Savin Hill station.

Police stopped and arrested two suspects, one with a realistic-looking but ... Read more.

Steward Health Care did not join other Massachusetts hospitals in recently reporting required financial information and results subsequently obtained by the News Service show the for-profit company posted a 6.54 percent ... Read more.

Tackling topics ranging from immigration to senior issues, the two candidates vying for the District 4 city council seat spoke before a full house Monday at a community forum at the Great Hall in Codman Square.

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Halloween is next Sat., Oct. 31 but there are plenty of opportunities to get in the holiday spirit this week and next at haunts in Dorchester and beyond.

Spooky Story Hour at Chill On Park
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In her sixth year as an at-large city councillor and seeking a fourth term, Ayanna Pressley is not resting on her laurels.  

“I don’t govern complacently and I don’t campaign complacently,” Pressley said. She ... Read more.

Thursday (22nd) – St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children hosts Diamonds of Dorchester, a reception, dinner, and live auction event from 6-8:30p.m. at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. A program and ... Read more.

Frustrated residents of two narrow Fields Corner streets asked the Boston Licensing Board on Tuesday to revoke Fields Station Liquor's license over what they said is an unending stream of delivery trucks that block their ... Read more.

The legal proceedings surrounding the murder of Bella Bond, for months known only as Baby Doe, continued in Dorchester Municipal Court on Tuesday morning. Michael McCarthy, 35, and Rachelle Bond, 40, are being charged in ... Read more.

Proposed expansion for Epiphany School

The Epiphany School has proposed a new building wrapped around the old Industrial School for Girls on Centre Street that would let it expand a teacher residency program and add a greenhouse and outdoor gardening area for ... Read more.

This afternoon, the final Ashmont/Peabody Square Farmers Market of the year will feature a pop-up art gallery, hosted by St. Mark's Area Main Street. The gallery offers a preview of the Dorchester Arts Collaborative Open ... Read more.

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