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Overall crime is down by 5 percent so far this year on the Area C-11 police district that covers much of eastern Dorchester. But, larcenies are on the rise, much of driven by a specific crime: shoplifting.
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When the Charles, Mystic, and Neponset River Watershed Association (NepRWA) released its 2024 water quality report card grades for Boston’s urban rivers last month, the Neponset was assigned a B+ with a score of 82.3 ... Read more.
The Rev. Pearline James and her husband Evan immigrated to Boston from Jamaica in 1971 as part of an early wave of Jamaican arrivals in the city. They were the first to purchase a home on Mattapan’s Malta Street on the ... Read more.
Reeling in the wake of passage of Donald Trump’s Big Ugly Bill on our nation’s 249th birthday, I am taking a long, sad look at the current Republican party.
Founded by Abraham Lincoln and others fighting to bring ... Read more.
It’s hard to imagine a worse time for the wheels of justice to grind to a halt in local courtrooms. But, that’s exactly what’s happening this week as a work stoppage among poorly paid public defenders comes to a troubling ... Read more.
Decades of advocacy, land-takings, policy-making and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have created the 8.2-mile Neponset Greenway as we know it today. Here’s a brief look back at key milestones.
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Plans for redeveloping a key Fields Corner building at 1444-1446 Dorchester Ave. – the O’Hearn-Dorchester Music Hall building that is now home to the 02122 branch of the United States Postal Service – were featured for ... Read more.
A virtual public meeting to discuss a proposed redevelopment at 1028-1032 Dorchester Ave. will be held virtually next Tuesday (July 15) at 6 p.m. See bostonplans.org/1028DorchesterAve for more info.
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Paul Downey, a former Boston Police sergeant, was arraigned last week in Dorchester Municipal Court on child rape charges that he paid to have sex with a 14-year-old in a South Bay Mall parking lot. WCVB reports Downey ... Read more.
Summertime in the city means that farm stands and farmers markets are sprouting across the city’s neighborhoods.
In Mattapan, the Urban Farming Institute (UFI) has launched its Farm Stand Fridays, which will run ... Read more.
On the same day that Donald Trump signed a landmark domestic policy bill that will reshape national and state finances for years to come, Gov. Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a companion ... Read more.
Calling for local sports fans and investors to target the Connecticut Sun, a Boston City Council member says his "very excited" colleagues will "absolutely" approve his resolution Wednesday to support the presence of a ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a developer's plans for a six-story, 45-unit apartment building on a parcel that stretches from Massachusetts Avenue to Boston Street in Edward Everett Square.
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Steve Poftak, a onetime CEO and general manager of the MBTA from January 2019 to January 2023, has been selected as the next CEO and president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, the independent, non-partisan group ... Read more.
A 21-year-old man was found with life-threatening gunshot injuries early Sunday morning near the Milton-Dorchester line in Lower Mills. Milton Police report that the victim was found on Wharf Street near Milton Landing ... Read more.
The 4th annual Night Market/Cho Dem will take place this Saturday (July 12) from 4 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in Fields Corner as food treats, music, and socializing in traditional Vietnamese-style street market close down ... Read more.
The man who fatally shot a Codman Square gas station attendant during an armed robbery on Oct. 6, 2018, received a life sentence without parole on June 30 in a Boston courtroom on June 30.
Jerron Perry, 33, of ... Read more.
The man who fatally shot a Codman Square gas station attendant during an armed robbery on Oct. 6, 2018, received a life sentence without parole on June 30 in a Boston courtroom on June 30.
Jerron Perry, 33, of ... Read more.
'Ideas in Action,' the city of Boston’s “participatory budgeting” initiative, is now open for Boston residents to make their own proposals on how to spend $2.2 million of the city budget. Now through July 31, visit ... Read more.
John Francis (Jack) Cannon of Falls Church, Virginia, a longtime US government diplomat and information specialist, died on June 24, 2025 after a brief illness. He was 89.
Mr. Cannon was born in Dorchester, ... Read more.
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