Uphams Corner

Uphams Corner classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan will be the featured performer tomorrow at the Boston Public Library’s Copley Branch Concert in the Courtyard. The performance will be part of the Friday lunchtime concerts that feature local... Read more
Daniela Martinez, a graduating senior at the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, joined 826 Boston in the fall of 2023, thinking she’d be writing plays, not the libretto for a new opera. But for six months last year, Martinez worked... Read more
Residents and businesses in Uphams Corner are celebrating this month after succeeding in a years-long effort to get repairs made to the brick sidewalks in the business district that critics say have become treacherous in recent years. Anthony Nguyen, a... Read more
If such a thing were possible, Zemari Facey would have been born with a pair of drumsticks in his hands. As it is, the seventh grader at Dorchester’s Conservatory Lab Charter School (CLCS) on Columbia Road got started on the drums when he was still a... Read more
Rendering of proposed Dudley Street building
The Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday approved plans by the family that has long owned two one-story commercial building at Dudley and Virginia streets in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a six-story, 48-unit apartment building. Under the approval, the... Read more
Rendering of proposed 2 Hillsboro St.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans for a four-story, 21-unit live/work condo building at 2 Hillsboro St. in Dorchester - with 18 of the units aimed at artists. The units, which will be split between studios and one- and two-bedroom... Read more
A quiet transformation is happening on some of Boston’s many vacant lots with the help of hardworking neighbors and the Boston Food Forest Coalition, a nonprofit community land trust that is working to turn empty patches of land into vibrant gardens,... Read more
The Boston Licensing Board voted Thursday to suspend the license of the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester, for one day over the way a patron was sliced with a machete last August - but then voted to hold the punishment in abeyance until the end of... Read more
A proposal by St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children to expand their footprint on Jones Hill and offer new housing for low-income families won approval from the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) on Thursday. The project will include... Read more
A federal judge on Monday sentenced Edwin Tavarez, 48, of Garfield, NJ to 18 months in prison for the way he got a longtime acquaintance in the old neighborhood to pay him more than $1.5 million over six years for a condo-development deal that never... Read more

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