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The American Planning Association (APA) likes what it sees happening in Fields Corner and has named the Dorchester community one of this year’s 10 greatest neighborhoods in America in recognition specifically for its residential diversity, citing the... Read more
The Boston Licensing Board has rejected acouple's request to let them turn an old Chinese restaurant into a new Vietnamese place, because of the husband's criminal past and his failure to fully own up to it at a board hearing this week. The board rarely... Read more
Anh Hong It’s common knowledge among Bostonian Vietnamese and increasingly Dorchester’s worst kept secret: one may not find better, more authentic Vietnamese food elsewhere than here in the Dot. Indeed Dorchester is home to one of the fastest growing... Read more
Now you can tour the state-of-the art Fields Corner Business Lab without ever having to leave your desk. Local photographer Mike Ritter partnered with Google to begin photographing businesses for Google Business View, which takes Google’s Street View... Read more
A diverse cross-section of the Dorchester community turned out to celebrate and honor three of our own serving in the armed forces in Afghanistan at the neighborhood’s National Night Out festivities at Town Field Park in Fields Corner on Tuesday night. “... Read more
When Marcy Goldstein-Gelb hears something described as a “freak accident,” a buzzer goes off in her head. Executive director of the Dorchester-based Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH), Goldstein-Gelb said many accidents... Read more
It was a tough sell back in 1978: convince farmers from the far edges of the state to travel to Boston’s core to sell their wares at three of the city’s first farmers markets. “Many of them were a little concerned about coming out, asking ‘will we make it... Read more
Rosanne FoleyFields Corner is about to get a shot in the arm from one of its most active and avid supporters: Rosanne Foley. A Dorchester resident since 1986, but making up for lost time ever since, Foley has been involved in some aspect of the... Read more
Meetinghouse Bank, the longtime Dorchester-based community bank with branches in Lower Mills and Roslindale Square, is eyeing a possible expansion into Fields Corner. The bank, which owns a property at 1281 Dorchester Avenue, has engaged a firm to study... Read more
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday that Ernest Watkins IV, charged with first-degree murder for a fatal Fields Corner stabbing in 2012, can be tried as an adult. Watkins, 14 at the time of Cherby LaJoie's murder outside the Fields Corner Red Line... Read more

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