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The All Dorchester Sports League (ADSL) will host its fourth annual fundraising event “Cold Night, Hot Stove” on Friday, March 24 at First Parish Church from 7-11 p.m.

The event is a dance party with music by the ... Read more.

The UMass Boston Performing Arts Department welcomes to the public to a series of faculty concerts, kicking off on Friday, March 24 with an exploration of world virtuoso guitar music with long-time music teacher Peter ... Read more.

The Ring 4 Veterans Boxers Association will induct its first woman boxer, Wendy Sprowl, 49, into its Hall of Fame on Sunday, April 9 at Florian Hall in Dorchester. Sprowl, who earned the monicker “Queen of Thunder,” will ... Read more.

The 11th annual Dorchester Chili Cook-Off will bring the heat an otherwise cool March weekend with some fierce, but friendly competition at the IBEW Hall on Freeport Street. Distinguished “foodie” judges, who shall be ... Read more.

Former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn and his one-time rival, Mel King, launched a new youth initiative—Boston Peace and Democracy Discussions— on Tuesday. Mayor Martin Walsh was on hand as a crowd of roughly 60 people gathered ... Read more.

A mixed-used development would replace an existing Lutheran church at the intersection of Talbot Avenue and Argyle Street in Ashmont if a buyer’s plans are approved.

James Baker, who has entered into an agreement ... Read more.

Viet-Aid is cleared to build a four-story, mixed use development on Bowdoin Street, after the proposal passed the Boston Planning and Development Board (BPDA) at its March meeting.

The building at 191-195 Bowdoin ... Read more.

Before his meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington later in the week, the head of Ireland’s government visited Boston City Hall, which Mayor Marty Walsh has said could become a citadel for Boston’s undocumented ... Read more.

Whether one calls March 17th “St. Patrick’s Day” or “Evacuation Day,” the Irish can lay claim to both celebrations. Many men bearing surnames of “the old sod” were nestled behind bristling cannons that peered down from ... Read more.

The Animal Rescue League of Boston has partnered with Codman Academy Charter Public School to launch the “Healthy Animals – Healthy Communities” initiative, a two-year effort focused on the Codman Square community. ... Read more.

Federal officials last Wednesday charged Arif Ali Shah, 66, who owns Nadia’s at 563 Washington St., with selling fake goods there for 10 years. Federal prosecutors say Shah sold counterfeit Samsung phones and used ... Read more.

MBTA weekend commuter rail service and transit services for individuals with disabilities are on the Baker administration’s “menu” of potential service cuts to help close a $42 million gap in the transit agency’s $2 ... Read more.

Communities of color are objecting to Santander Bank’s use of a Washington D.C.-based community development group to help negotiate a new community benefits agreement for Boston, after the bank failed to meet certain ... Read more.

Modern Irish cinema will tackle weighty social conundrums while also prompting a few more belly laughs than usual at this month’s Irish Film Festival in Somerville, the annual movie-lovers’ celebration of a changing ... Read more.

The Mayor of Dorchester contest has fielded its first two contestants— with room for more to join the friendly fray in the coming weeks. Dorchester native David Anderson and Lower Mills business owner Carlos Vargas are ... Read more.

There is no denying that the event is literally part of Boston’s turf – that’s not a point of view, but a simple fact. At the 2017 St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in South Boston, state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry will once ... Read more.

The Legislature’s new marijuana committee will begin its work in earnest later this month with an “overview” hearing at the State House before holding similar hearings elsewhere in the state, the committee chairs said. ... Read more.

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