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Looking at the landscape of Fields Corner, business partners Junior Pena and Vivien Veth recognized that there was a growing population of residents from the Dominican Republic in the neighborhood, but no restaurant ... Read more.
The BPDA will host a virtual public meeting on Mon., July 8. at 6 p.m. to discuss a proposed change to the next phase of the Olmsted Village housing development on Harvard Street along the Dorchester and Mattapan border. ... Read more.
As Steward Health Care goes through bankruptcy proceedings, many doctors and patients are reluctant to associate with its seven operating hospitals in Massachusetts, according to health care leaders and people who work in ... Read more.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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