Before practices or games years ago, Coach Dennis Wilson and his late brother Harry Wilson III would often comb the playing fields at Harambee Park in Franklin Field to remove broken glass, rocks, and other sharp objects...
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A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Wednesday convicted Shawn McClinton for raping and beating a woman in the men's room of the Codman Square McDonald's in 2018, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
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The 10th annual Crew Love Basketball Tournament took place all weekend Aug. 13-14 at Harambee Park in Franklin Field. The double elimination tournament featured some of the best men’s and women’s teams in the area ... Read more.
Dust off the plumes, re-bend the costume wires, and pull the flatbed trailer and sound system out of storage because Boston Carnival returns to neighborhood streets on Aug. 27 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 ... Read more.
Dorchester’s Janine A. Dailey will be joining Boston Harbor Now as chief advancement officer next month. She most recently served as vice president of Advancement and Alumni Relations at Pine Manor College in Chestnut ... Read more.
Sometime early next year, ideally on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the long-anticipated Embrace Memorial will be unveiled on the Boston Common, where it will pay homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott ... Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court on Monday upheld Odell Sanders's conviction for a July 25, 2018 gunfire attack on an Audi on Norfolk Street that ... Read more.
A military contractor and a landlord on a desolate industrial dead end sandwiched between the Expressway and the Red Line and commuter-rail tracks are suing the Zoning ... Read more.
Responding to a call from US Sen. Elizabeth Warren for “new leadership” at the MBTA, Gov. Charlie Baker defended the public transit agency’s officials and said they should stay.
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Twenty-five grassroots organizations across Boston, including nine in Dorchester, have received a total of $100,000 in grants from the Mayor’s Office of Black Male Advancement (BMA), which was launched by Mayor Michelle ... Read more.
On May 30, my 18-year-old son Josh and I set out from a beach in Anacortes, Washington, on a cross-country bicycle ride back to our home in Dorchester. After traveling 3,551 miles through 9 states and one Canadian ... Read more.
The topic on Thurs., July 28, was the Blue Hill Avenue redesign and the reconfiguration of Mattapan Square, but the format wasn’t a typical lecture-and-listen session, and the location wasn’t a school cafeteria.
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Boston has made an offer to the next superintendent of its schools. All that remains is for her to accept.
Highlights of the draft contract were provided by Boston School Committee chair Jeri Robinson Wednesday ... Read more.
A state trooper acquitted last year on assault-and-battery charges for a 2018 fight outside Dorchester's Dorset Hall that left a woman with a broken leg is suing State Police for back pay and lost benefits for the 26 ... Read more.
Last month, after more than a year of bargaining, the Boston Teachers Union (BTU) and Boston Public Schools (BPS) reached a tentative agreement on a new contract. One of the items that the BTU was holding out for - and ... Read more.
After a long and contentious history with Popeye’s Chicken and its lease on a potential location in Codman Square, the property owner and community are turning the page on the saga: Antoinette Rodney, and her broker, ... Read more.
Lacrosse is often seen locally as a sport exclusive to elite private schools and suburban enclaves, with most young people in the neighborhood found on the football field at Franklin Field or Almont Park, or basketball ... Read more.
More than four years after the U.S. Supreme Court said that states could legalize sports wagering, Massachusetts did just that when Gov. Charlie Baker signed a sports betting bill Wednesday afternoon, shifting public ... Read more.
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Wednesday “new leadership” is needed at the MBTA as the public transit agency readies a month-long shutdown of its Orange Line, with an overlapping closure of the Green Line.
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One Democrat hoping to win the office believes the attorney general should "absolutely" consider action against the MBTA amid a string of debilitating failures, and candidates in the race also want to ramp up enforcement ... Read more.
Dorchester lost one of its most generous and loyal sons this week. Robert L. Marr died on Monday after a brief illness. He was 86.
Bob was the son of Colonel Daniel Marr, the namesake of the original Boys and ... Read more.
Boston is a city with no shortage of historically and culturally significant sites, but perspectives on which places have earned those designations rarely bubble up from the community at large, especially the young. ... Read more.
After a string of early-morning after-hours parties last spring at Sam’s Spot caterers on Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner – with at least one party that may or may not have included a shooting incident – the city’s ... Read more.
Lucas Lamar Darby entered the business world at age six this summer, opening the very popular Lucas’s Affordable Slushy stand at various locations around Dorchester. He started out on July 16 on Aspinwall Street near ... Read more.
A series of family-friendly concerts is coming to the Uphams Corner branch of the Boston Public Library, starting Thurs., Aug. 11, at 5:30 p.m.
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The Open Streets Boston pilot program came to Blue Hill Avenue last Saturday as the city closed off 1.2 miles of the roadway from Dudley Street west to Grove Hall. The morning and early-afternoon event brought out ... Read more.
