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A proposal to move and restore a historic Grampian Way home and convert the structure to a seven-condominium building was met with concern and some pushback at a Columbia Savin Hill Civic Association planning meeting last ... Read more.
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In Robert James Waller’s best-selling novel “The Bridges of Madison County,” a lonely war bride in 1960s Iowa has a three-day affair with a handsome National ... Read more.
The now-closed Phillips Old Colony House restaurant on Morrissey Boulevard is now officially on the market. The Reporter broke the news last January about the decision of longtime owners— the Phillips family— to end ... Read more.
Dennis Lehane, the Dorchester native who writes for print, television, and the movies, and who calls his own work “a bizarre bastard child of pulp and literary influences,” launched his latest novel, “Since We Fell,” last ... Read more.
The Boston City Council approved the sale of the former Winthrop Square parking garage in Downtown Crossing to development company Millennium Partners by a vote of 10-3 on April 26. The decision— which must be ratified by ... Read more.
As the Boston Public Schools move to determine a name for the new Mattapan early education center at the soon-to-be-shuttered Mattahunt Elementary School, Superintendent Tommy Chang said last week that some upper grade ... Read more.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to tell the federal government to cut the nonsense and let Haitians here on "temporary protected status" visas stay here, because the awful conditions in their homeland that ... Read more.
The future of one of the city’s most prominent redevelopment sites— the 16-acre Boston Globe property on Morrissey Boulevard—is again in limbo after the latest agreement to sell the newspaper plant and offices collapsed ... Read more.
A tunnel cap that sits above the Red Line tracks as they run underground through Dorchester from Fields Corner to Ashmont station may see a new life as a biker and pedestrian greenway.
At the Greater Ashmont Main ... Read more.
Two weeks ago our city was thrown into the national spotlight again and we were reminded of a sordid time in our past all because one insensitive and ignorant idiot yelled a single word at a member of the Baltimore ... Read more.
An upcoming deadline to renew a temporary residency program affecting more than 50,000 Haitians in the US has sparked a flurry of action by city and state representatives. Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was originally ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department reports a man was found shot around 10:55 p.m. on Saturday outside 10 Nottingham St. and was declared dead at the scene.
Also over the weekend, somebody shot at a couple in a car next ... Read more.
Chronicle, the evening program produced by WCVB-TV-Channel 5, turned its cameras on Dorchester in a half-hour show that aired on Tuesday. The show features many familiar faces, including staff of the Dorchester Reporter ... Read more.
Developer James Baker is expanding the scope of his proposed local market project on the corner of Savin Hill Avenue and Sydney Street to include more parking and 15 condominiums in a separate building, he told members of ... Read more.
The seventh annual St. Williams Dorchester Fund scholarships were presented on Sunday to five neighborhood students with musical abilities who are heading to college in the fall. The awards – including checks for $1,000 ... Read more.
Underused industrial parcels and generally underdeveloped swaths of land along a mile-long stretch of Dorchester Avenue are prime for new planning, residents and city officials agreed during a tour of the PLAN: Glover’s ... Read more.
A program aimed at boosting spirits among elderly residents in city housing developments has become a popular attraction at the Lower Mills Apartments. Twice a week, student volunteers from across the world show up at the ... Read more.
In the midst of news about issues of governance at Boston College High School breaking into the pages of the Boston Globe over the last week, on Monday the school’s parents were told by the principal about racial ... Read more.
Two weeks of free riders on the Fairmount Line kicked off on Monday, a bid to boost ridership on the only commuter rail line to operate entirely within Boston.
A group of elected officials and activists stood ... Read more.
Sheila (O’Connell) Fahey and Harry Faulkner met more than 40 years ago in St. Ann’s parish school hall. Jack Morris, their friend and mentor, was directing the New Neponset Players at the time, and Sheila and Harry had ... Read more.
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