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The vacant city-owned lots on the west side of Dorchester and into Mattapan that have sat vacant and underutilized for 35 or 40 years are getting fewer by the day. Just this month at a City Hall roundtable discussion, ... Read more.
Edwarda Parkinson is the class of 2024’s valedictorian at City on a Hill Charter School (COAH) in Roxbury. Her journey to this point did not come without challenges, and she recently met with The Reporter to talk about ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a land owner's plans to replace a convenience store and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city- ... Read more.
For years children in the Boston area with various physical and intellectual disabilities were being excluded from participating in America’s favorite pastime. Ten years ago, Brendan McDonough decided the same would not ... Read more.
A federal bankruptcy filing by Steward Health Care Systems on Tuesday in Houston was approved, effectively extending the deadline for the court-approved bid and sale process for several Steward hospitals, including Carney ... 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Emmanuel College hosted the second annual My Brother’s Keeper Summit last week, welcoming more than 150 students who heard encouraging words from speakers, including Mayor Wu, about valuable life skills like dressing for ... Read more.
Friends and family gathered on John Canavan Square at the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Roseclair Street last Saturday morning to dedicate a memorial bench to the late Jack and Eileen Baker, and to say “thank you” to ... 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.
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.
Owners of a longtime Lower Mills pizza and “spuckie” eatery plan to close the business to make way for a proposal that would see a four-story building housing 14 units of condos developed in its place. Stavros and ... 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 Blarney Stone, the legendary Fields Corner bar and restaurant that has been a common ground gathering spot in Dorchester for more than two decades, is likely to change ownership and close later this summer, as the ... 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.
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