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Twenty-five-year-old Dorchester native Omari Hayles, who has twin passions for music and locally sourced food, was recognized this month for his volunteer work at Haley House in Dudley Square, which has provided food, ... Read more.

Kids and teenagers across Boston are telling Mayor Martin Walsh how to spend the city’s money and Walsh is listening.

Over a period of one week in June, some 1,500 Boston youths ages 12 to 25 cast votes for how to ... Read more.

Charlotte Golar Richie, a Dorchester Democrat who finished third in last year’s race for mayor of Boston, will be appointed by Gov. Deval Patrick to serve as a commissioner on the Massachusetts Commission Against ... Read more.

The Massachusetts Historical Commission has approved three structures— one in Mattapan and two in Dorchester— for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). All three buildings have a connection to the ... Read more.

Merchant leaders from the city’s Main Streets districts were honored at the 18th annual Boston Main Streets Awards, which took place at the historic Strand Theatre last Thursday, June 26. Mayor Martin Walsh, Department ... Read more.

A summertime art program geared towards teenagers begins next week in Fields Corner. “Portraits, People and Places: Changing the World” will operate from the Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) Cleveland ... Read more.

With Cape Verde’s Independence Day coming up on Saturday— a day after our own July Fourth holiday— it’s a perfect time to drop in and bask in the festivity and experience comfort food, Cape Verdean-style. I have been ... Read more.

Despite a hiccup on Beacon Hill over the weekend, Boston’s quest for control over its liquor licenses and the setting of late-night hours at bars and restaurants along late-night T routes could soon succeed as legislative ... Read more.

Beaches in South Boston and East Boston had significantly less bacteria in 2013 than years past, while improper sewage hookups and other pollutants continue to mar the waters at Lynn, Swampscott, Dorchester and Quincy ... Read more.

The Boston Police Department reports a man in his mid-30s was shot repeatedly around 2 p.m. on Monday at 73 Edgewater Dr.

He was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

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Charter school advocates rallied on Beacon Hill Monday for expansion legislation that has already cleared the House, pressing the importance of tackling the issue by the end of July and reminding lawmakers that the bill ... Read more.

Major Craig Meling, who lives in Fields Corner, says he understands the fits of rage. The sleepless nights. The feeling that nobody understands.

He suffered through his own personal horrors after returning from a ... Read more.

Percival Beer Company, the producer of Dorchester-inspired Dot Ale 1630, is planning to open a large-scale brewery at 181 Bowdoin St. next summer.

The move, which Percival owner Felipe E. Oliveira announced ... Read more.

An emerging plan to build a multi-story condominium complex along a key stretch of Washington Street in Lower Mills is getting re-vamped this week after civic and merchant leaders pushed back against an initial proposal ... Read more.

Dorchester’s Polish Triangle is ground zero for the housing development spilling into Boston’s largest neighborhood. Case in point: At last week’s meeting of the John W. McCormack Civic Association, which oversees Dot’s ... Read more.

Thursday (26th) – The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation invites all to their 33rd annual meeting and celebration at Codman Common Park, 6 p.m.

Friday (27th) – ... Read more.

Bank of America pulled its Columbia Road branch location off the auction block a day before the building was to be sold last month, but it is keeping mum about the fate of the nearly century-old building. The branch ... Read more.

As they stalked the migration paths of the whales they hunted, Azoreans, Cape Verdeans, and Brazilians formed migratory paths of their own, some of which led directly to Dorchester.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum ... Read more.

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