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Neighborhood House Charter School (NHCS) in Dorchester has hired as its new executive director, the veteran Boston Public School educator Edverette Brewster. He will start work on July 1, taking over for current executive ... Read more.

The Mather Elementary School on the top of Meeting House Hill held its annual Spring Fling neighborhood party on Sat., June 8, while looking with anticipation to next year when the institution will be celebrating its ... Read more.

To the Editor:
The commentary from Saranya Sathananthan and Mike Prokosch in the May 30 edition of The Reporter nailed critical issues with the City’s Squares + Street (S+S) initiative that is being planned and ... Read more.

One of the only working farms in the city of Boston celebrated a major milestone last Thursday (June 13) as close to 100 people gathered along Norfolk Street, site of the Fowler Clark Epstein Farm, to mark the sale of the ... Read more.

A packed crowd filled the Josh Kraft Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) the night of May 30 to celebrate the release of the center’s youth album “Late Nightz.” As an intermission feature between performances, the teens held a ... Read more.

It had taken more than two centuries for one of the first public high schools in Boston to win a state baseball championship before last Sunday, when the English High Eagles finally got to raise the Division 5 MIAA trophy ... Read more.

Thanks to a June 11 vote by the MBTA’s board of directors, the Fairmount commuter rail line is moving closer to a long-pursued goal of cleaner and more frequent service.

In the $9.6 billion capital investment plan ... Read more.

The MBTA’s chief of Integrated Transit Programs, Desiree Patrice, of Dorchester, has received the 2024 Women Making Transportation History Award from the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials’ Boston chapter. ... Read more.

A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday allowed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to proceed in a process that developers hope will, in time, get a major development project at Port Norfolk back on its feet.

The case ... Read more.

The Labor Management Cooperation Trust, a partnership between Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 12 and the Greater Boston Plumbing Contractors Association, recently donated $9,000 to support high school vocational programs ... Read more.

Dorchester is home to hundreds of community activists. You occasionally see stickers on cars that indicate their origins. Some are OFDs – Originally from Dorchester. Others, like me, are DBCs – Dorchester By Choice. They ... Read more.

Betha flees Canton home invasion with a gun

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Daronde Bethea to 250 months - 20 years, 10 months - in prison for his role in the Cameron Street Gang, which included trying to gun down a member of the rival Wendover Street Gang and ... Read more.

Whether it be the Celtics on the court or the temperatures around the city, things are surely heating up in Boston this week. Unfortunately for Dorchester, the beaches at Savin Hill and Tenean Beach will be closed to ... Read more.

After a bumpy drive to the basket, Mattapan designer Glen Gaines has found nothing but a perfect swish with the debut of his ‘Lift Every Voice’ basketball nets, which reflect the Pan African flag colors of red, black and ... Read more.

UPDATE: After a 5-9 loss to Florida State Tuesday, the Tar Heels' season has ended. The team finished with a 48-16 record winning just one game in the CWS. Shea Sprague, who pitched a total of 78.1 innings this season ... Read more.

Down Georgetown in final outing, 7-1

It had taken more than two centuries for one of the first public high schools in Boston to win a state baseball championship before last Sunday, when the ... Read more.

At approximately 2:55 p.m. on Monday, a school bus went up in flames in the breakdown lane heading northbound on the Southeast Expressway near Savin Hill.

WCVB-TV reports that the bus was chartered for a field ... Read more.

From minicamps to middle schools, the New England Patriots kicked off summertime fully dedicated to the organization’s two pillars: community and football at the highest level.

Last Tuesday (June 11) some 90 ... Read more.

He's going from Morrissey Boulevard to the mound of the College World Series.

Shea Sprague, whose family has deep roots in Dorchester, is expected to be the starting pitcher today for the University of North ... Read more.

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made the following remarks in Normandy’s American Cemetery

in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 6, the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied assault on Nazi-occupied ... Read more.

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