Lower Mills
Lower Mills will see another street closure, this one during the last week of May and the first week of June as the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority puts the finishing touches on the rehabilitation of a major water pipeline.
The pipeline was built... Read more
Firefighters had to lay several hundred feet of hose Wednesday night to battle a brush fire along the Neponset River in Lower Mills.
The brush fire, reported around 7:15 p.m., consumed brush behind Ventua Street, took firefighters from six engine... Read more
Editor’s Note: This Sunday, the Dorchester Historical Society will host its Great Chocolate Cook-off— featuring a tasting contest and a look back at the historical roots of chocolate production— both here in Dorchester and beyond. Sunday’s event starts... Read more
Suspect #2 in trolley attack: Captured on surveillance video at Butler Street station on Monday. MBTA Police imageMBTA police are investigating a Monday night attack of a man riding the Mattapan trolley as a possible anti-gay hate crime.
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“It’s like trading in your old broken-down Chevy for a new Beemer,” explains Father Vincent Daily, the pastor at St. Gregory’s church in Lower Mills. Some might raise him and say the new organ that was installed in the loft at Dorchester’s oldest Catholic... Read more
ATM dumped curbside on Richmond Street on Dec. 23Richmond Street has evidently become the preferred dumping ground for ATMs thieves working towns on the South Shore. On Dec. 23, someone dumped the ATM shown above around 5 a.m. on the sidewalk outside 115... Read more
ATM dumped curbside on Richmond StreetNeighbors on Richmond Street awoke to find an ATM machine dumped curbside this morning. The machine was apparently stolen overnight and dropped off on the Lower Mills street sometime before daybreak. C-11 Police... Read more
District 7 City Councillor Tito Jackson would not have to move or give up his seat on the City Council, according to a draft map featuring redrawn political boundaries for the city's 9 district council seats. Jackson's colleague, Michael Ross, isn't as... Read more