After more than a year of delays, construction work has started on a project that will entirely remake the upper and lower portions of the scenic Mother’s Rest Four Corners Park on Washington Street.
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Congressman Stephen F. Lynch, who represents South Boston and Dorchester as well as swaths of the South Shore, will host an information session at Braintree Town Hall on Sun., Oct. 1, for all high school students ... Read more.
Decades ago, Christiana Telesford could be found on the pristine Grand Anse Beach in Grenada. These days, the 100-year-old native of Grenada is still making her rounds and keeping active in Dorchester.
The ... Read more.
When Dorchester rapper kei took the stage at the Forward Future Festival in 2021, she was pretty nervous. She’d never performed in front of a crowd before and her debut project, “baby steps,” was still new at the time. ... Read more.
To the Editor:
As Maddie Murphy’s K1 teacher at the Perry School, I still have goosebumps after reading in your Sept. 7 edition about her journey through the many elimination rounds to find herself among a small ... Read more.
The Dorchester-based nonprofit Louis D. Brown Peace Institute (LDBPI) last week received a $100,000 grant from an arm of the gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety, which touts its 700,000 donors across ... Read more.
The Boston Municipal Research Bureau regularly offers analysis and updates on city finances. The bureau, an independent and business-backed organization, last week released a memo on the fiscal 2024 budget, which went ... Read more.
In an era marked by alarming inequality, economic growth that lacks a focus on inclusion exacerbates the problem. This is especially true in the context of urban development projects. Success requires a steadfast ... Read more.
Professional women’s soccer is set to return to Boston, as an all-female ownership group has won expansion rights. The group, Boston Unity Soccer Partners (BUSC), is working with city officials to renovate the George R. ... Read more.
The MBTA and Keolis, which operates the commuter rail system, recently released their fall/winter schedule this month with a notice that a much-requested additional late-night commuter rail service will be added for most ... Read more.
MBTA officials this week added another pair of partial Red Line weekend closures to a long list of maintenance-fueled disruptions planned for October.
Shuttle buses will replace Red Line service between Broadway ... Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place.
The board also gave the 60-seat ... Read more.
It has been one year since President Biden and Democrats in Congress passed historic clean energy and climate justice legislation that has the power to reshape the future of our nation—from our environment to our economy ... Read more.
When you’re planning a milestone anniversary event for your Dorchester newspaper, it only makes sense to turn to the people who have built their business and brand around the Dorchester name, too.
So when Reporter ... Read more.
For more than 30 years, the nostalgic image of kids working their paper routes has been a reality in Dorchester: Each week the Reporter is distributed by local kids to their customers around the neighborhood. It’s a ... Read more.
Anytime you entered Baby Nat’s Fruitland on American Legion Highway, at the nexus of Mattapan and Roslindale, you knew you would be getting multiple bargains. Now, after one family’s almost 50 years in business, the ... Read more.
In 1983, Ed and Mary Forry launched a monthly newspaper from a makeshift office in their Lower Mills home. Forty years later, The Reporter is still in business and the Forry’s vision of creating a quality hometown ... Read more.
You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline.
Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus- ... Read more.
Celebrating the 40th birthday of the Dorchester Reporter has transported me back to 1983, when Ed and Mary Forry began publishing their newspaper. I was still early in my tenure as executive director of the Codman Square ... Read more.
With a promise to bring readers “the news and values around the neighborhood” in each edition, The Reporter hit the streets of Dorchester for the first time forty years ago this week — Sept. 1983. In a special 40-page ... Read more.
September 1983.
Ronald Reagan was in his first term as president and the denizens of the Eire Pub already had a portrait of the Gipper – who popped in for a beer in ’82 – framed on their Adams ... Read more.
Open Streets Dorchester, take two: City officials will for the second consecutive year temporarily shut down Dorchester Avenue to vehicle traffic between Ashmont Street and Freeport Street this coming Sunday (Sept. 17) ... Read more.
Representatives from the US Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration joined members of the Massachusetts Building Trades Recovery Council at the Ironworkers Local 7 hall in South Boston ... Read more.
Since the start of the pandemic, banks have closed more than three dozen branches in Boston and two hundred more across Massachusetts.
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With the shutdown of the Red Line’s Ashmont and Mattapan branches a month away, top MBTA officials last Wednesday toured the JFK/UMass transit hub, which is slated to receive a coat of paint and other upgrades during the ... Read more.
Dozens of classic cars were on display at Dot Park’s Adams Street fields – everything from a 1946 Ford convertible to a 1950 Chevy truck (in red) to a 2012 Boss 302 speedster – as part of last Sunday’s 14th annual ... Read more.
