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Feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of bad news and scuttlebutt about detentions and “mass” deportations? Join the club. Or even better: Don’t.
From this vantage point— roughly ten days into the second Trump ... Read more.
For the Polish American Citizens Club of Boston, the installation of its slate of elected officers and directors during a ceremony at their Dorchester facility earlier this month gave its members an opportunity to savor ... Read more.
Several potential candidates for Boston City Council have emerged in recent weeks, including a Dorchester resident who says he intends to run citywide.
Will Onuoha, who lives on Dix Street near Fields Corner, ... Read more.
A development that will see a new public library branch situated below 33 units of workforce housing at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Uphams Corner will receive $4.95 million in city funding, according to Boston officials who ... Read more.
A man who was shot to death last week in Dorchester’s Meetinghouse Hill section has been identified by police as 20-year-old Kareem Daveiga-Booth of Brighton. He was found suffering from a gunshot wound last Tuesday ... Read more.
City of Boston Planning Dept. hosts a public meeting for a proposed project at 841 Morton St. in Mattapan on Wed., Feb. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. via Zoom. The proposal would replace what is now a gas station ... Read more.
The Dorchester Winter Farmer’s Market opened the doors to its indoor season in the Great Hall at Codman Square last Saturday. It will be open every Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. through March 15.
The market is a ... Read more.
A national campaign to counter crimes against postal carriers is starting to deliver results, according to officials from the United States Postal Service (USPS) who briefed reporters on their efforts last week. The ... Read more.
When housing gets too unaffordable, many US cities try to cool demand by increasing supply.
But, for Louise “Weezy” Waldstein, an activist who lives three blocks from an Orange Line station in Jamaica Plain, what’s ... Read more.
Karin Richardson, a 16-year-old junior point guard on the Neighborhood House Charter School girls’ varsity basketball team, reached a career milestone last Friday evening when she scored her 1,000th point and totaled 16 ... Read more.
She was Brandy Fluker-Oakley when she was elected as a representative for parts of Dorchester and Mattapan in the Legislature. On New Year’s Eve, she married her partner, Omar Reid, a real estate developer from Dorchester ... Read more.
Mayor Wu said on Monday that the city of Boston is not aware of any demonstrable change in tactics or in the volume of federal immigration enforcement in city neighborhoods in recent days, although she acknowledged that ... Read more.
Josh Kraft filed paperwork with the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) last Friday that now permits him to begin raising — and spending— money to fund a race for mayor of Boston.
It is the ... Read more.
With massive patches of slow zones now mostly repaired, MBTA officials have set their sights on pushing some subway speeds to even higher levels as one of the next major goals.
T officials hinted Thursday that ... Read more.
84-unit apartment complex to be ‘fully affordable’
The owners of the Dot Block housing development on Dorchester Avenue will get an infusion of $5 million from the city of Boston to help them build ... Read more.
Editor's note: This story was updated with new reporting at 3:50 p.m. on Jan. 23, 2025.
A car crash in Ashmont Hill has caused major disruptions to a longtime early childhood education center for kids 2-5 ... Read more.
The annual Tet in Boston celebration commemorating Lunar New Year and ushering in the Year of the Snake will take place over two days this coming Saturday and Sunday at the Flynn Cruiseport in South Boston.
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It is inevitable at this time of the year that many of us think about family. Growing up in Dorchester, I just assumed that everybody lived under the same roof as their grandparents.
In my case, my father’s mother ... Read more.
His voice carried past more than 100 men sitting on benches. It carried through the haze of the smoke-filled room. It carried through the stifling July heat. It carried past young and old men waiting for a bed, a ride to ... Read more.
In the wake of the death at age 101 of former Massachusetts attorney general and lieutenant governor Francis X. Bellotti (above) last month, Judy Meredith, a longtime presence on Beacon Hill as a lobbyist, sat down ... Read more.
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