Like its surrounding neighborhood, the vacant lot at 379 Geneva Ave. stands at a crossroads. Located at the corner of Corona Street and fringed with a white picket fence, the lot’s 7,647 square feet have been—apart from a...
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Steward Says It Has Lost $22 Million On New England Sinai Operations
A long-term care and rehabilitation hospital intends to shut down due to multi-million-dollar losses, making Stoughton the ... Read more.
To the Editor:
It’s very depressing that the same developers who were denied permission for their construction of 1813 Dorchester Ave. by the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal a couple of years ago have resubmitted ... Read more.
To the Editor:
The Boston Human Rights Commission condemns in the strongest possible terms the brutal attacks conducted by Hamas on Israeli citizens on Oct. 7 and the subsequent brutal, indiscriminate bombing ... Read more.
Boston Globe columnist and associate editor Adrian Walker has spent the last two years revisiting the 34-year-old Stuart family murder case that exploded out of Boston’s newsrooms late in the evening of Oct. 23,1989 and ... Read more.
The BPDA will host a virtual IAG meeting on Wed., Dec. 6, at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the 135 Morrissey Blvd. project, including the construction of an additional six-story wing connected to the former Boston ... Read more.
The FCC last week warned eight property owners — including a church on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester — that they have two weeks to shut down the unlicensed radio stations operating in their buildings or face fines of ... Read more.
With less than a month to go before he takes the oath to join the Boston City Council, newly elected John FitzGerald is busy interviewing potential staff members who will help him in the work of representing District 3 ... Read more.
All Dorchester Sports and Leadership (ADSL) will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a gala at the waterfront Venezia ballroom on Wed., Dec.6, from 6-10 p.m. with a speaking program starting at 7:30.
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The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for a man convicted of gunning down Marcus Hall behind a Blue Hill Avenue barbershop, where Hall had brought his four-year-old son for a haircut on June 14, 2016.
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Don Alexis was first attracted to Mattapan and Blue Hill Avenue when he was 18 and visiting family shortly after immigrating from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. The diaspora culture and the history of the neighborhood gave him the ... Read more.
With its purchase last month of a large tract of commercial property on New England Avenue west of Codman Square for a potential infrastructure site, Eversource continued on its mission of convening neighbors in ... Read more.
There were no apparent injuries, but Boston Police found six shell casings on the sidewalk, one bullet that hit the Rockland Trust bank, and another that hit an apartment across the street on Sunday at noon during what ... Read more.
Regulators at the Massachusetts Gaming Commission are taking an interest in whether people younger than the legal betting age of 21 are using mobile platforms to bet on sports and what the betting platforms operating here ... Read more.
Six community members and organizations were honored at the annual Codman Square and Four Corners ‘Hidden Heroes and Sheroes’ gala on Nov. 17 in the Great Hall, with five teens from the neighborhood receiving $2,000 ... Read more.
President Joseph Biden's coming back to Massachusetts next Tuesday for a concert fundraiser featuring singer-songwriter James Taylor, the state Democratic Party said Tuesday.
The Dec. 5 shindig in Boston, titled " ... Read more.
Early last summer, 50-year-old Mattapan native Pierre Auguste felt a persistent pain radiating from his abdomen. He and his wife Ruth anticipated possible gallstones and began preparing for ambulatory surgery. Instead, ... Read more.
The Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) held its first annual Gratitude Dinner on the outdoor patio of Blue Hill Avenue’s Café Juice Up under a massive tent on Fri., Nov. 17. The event was put together to thank ... Read more.
More tree lightings are planned for next weekend as Mayor Wu’s Enchanted Trolley Tour makes stops around the city, including Mattapan Square on Sat., Dec. 2 at 1 p.m.; Codman Square on Sun., Dec. 3 at 12 p.m., followed by ... Read more.
The Dorchester Holiday Celebration Committee and Mayor Michelle Wu ushered in the Christmas season with a barrage of nine holiday tree lightings throughout the neighborhood last Saturday (Nov. 25) from Port Norfolk to ... Read more.
When B-3 police officer Daniel Oliveira arrived at a home on Ellington Street around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, the scene couldn’t have been more intense. A two-year-old boy was lying unresponsive on the bed, having been found ... Read more.
Three additional public meetings planned over coming months
A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related ... Read more.
A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related infrastructure will convene for its first meeting this evening, more than one year after a ... Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to Ellington Street for what turned into a six-alarm fire at 19 and 21 Ellington Saturday afternoon.
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Somewhere between the migration to the suburbs in the 20th century and the tight housing market of the ongoing “Big Sort,” there was a turning point called “the Big Downzone.”
The term is used by public policy ... Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last Thursday (Nov. 16) overturned a man’s first-degree murder conviction in the shooting death of Dantley Leonard on Nov. 12, 2016, while Leonard was helping a friend’s girlfriend move ... Read more.
