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A series of community meetings — beginning with one at Dorchester’s Kroc Center on Oct. 8— will weigh the pros and cons of changing the current school enrollment system to include both charter and public schools in one “ ... Read more.

For more than 30 years, the Boston Police Cadet Program served as a pipeline to bring local young people into the police force and better involve the neighborhoods with the officers who served them. Discontinued in 2009, ... Read more.

A formerly-blighted city lot on Park Street is set to be transformed into a middle income home, Mayor Martin Walsh's office announced Wednesday. The vacant lot will be rehabilitated through a partnership between Madison ... Read more.

Ask Michael Crowley— the Community Field Coordinator at the Richard J. Murphy Elementary School in Neponset— about this Friday’s second annual First Responder’s Appreciation Day and he’ll be happy to tell you all about it ... Read more.

A man was killed on Monday afternoon after he was struck by an inbound Braintree train at JFK-UMass station. An eyewitness at the scene told the Reporter that he saw an adult male jump in front of the train. MBTA Transit ... Read more.

After 38 years of teaching English in the Boston school system, notably at the John D. O’Bryant School, one of the city’s three exam schools, Brenda Chaney has left her classroom days behind. She could have retired years ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports two women have been grabbed by a man at Boston and Mayhew streets in recent days.

A woman told police she was walking at the intersection around 1:15 a.m. on ... Read more.

In an effort to strengthen his campaign to impose a 2 percent tax on alcohol sold in Boston, City Council President Bill Linehan and City Councillor Frank Baker visited Hope House in Dorchester on Tuesday to outline how ... Read more.

Ask any Boston exam school student or parent and they will expand on the hours of intense preparation and studying for the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE).

The Boston Public School system has three exam ... Read more.

Thursday (17th) – Family Fun Movie night at Mattapan Community Health Center, 1575 Blue Hill Ave., Mattapan, 6-8 p.m. features Up, rated PG. All kids under 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Limited ... Read more.

Two longtime Dorchester tire businesses have formed an alliance this summer.

Dorchester Tire Service and Ashmont Tire are now being managed by a single entity, according to Gary Saks of Dorchester Tire Service, ... Read more.

Students, faculty and staff crowded into a University of Massachusetts ballroom Wednesday morning to decry recently-approved student fee increases, which they said are akin to "digging an ever-deeper well of student debt ... Read more.

Plans for the DOT Block development are being adjusted after the owner of three properties at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Hancock Street backed away from an agreement to sell them to the project’s developers. ... Read more.

While Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said he is in the dark about Uber's background check system, his predecessor - now an adviser to the ride-hailing company - said Tuesday he had met personally with the ... Read more.

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