A $1.4 million renovation of the state-owned Toohig Park on Gallivan Boulevard in #Dorchester is set to begin this summer, officials said during a public meeting last week.
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Mayor Michelle Wu's FY27 budget proposal is under scrutiny from city councillors and advocates who are posing tough questions about priorities and/or making pleas for more funding. Chris Lovett reports...
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New plans floated for 59-unit condo development on Washington Street in Lower Mills. #Dorchester
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Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy honored Dorchester's Jim Brett and his wife, Pattie, at its annual spring fundraising event on April 9 at the school’s Columbia Road campus.
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A new mural dedicated to Boston educator and civil rights pioneer Ruth Batson was unveiled last week outside the #Dorchester school that now bears her name.
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This week's print edition of The Reporter is in circulation across the neighborhoods. You can also read it here:
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Visitors at Dorchester's JFK Library can take advantage of free admission throughout this week by using the buzzword “SPACE” at the door or as a code when reserving tickets online.
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Surveillance photos of suspects on scooters
Shots fired at South Bay; police release photos of scooter suspects
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#Boston #Dorchester #crime #guns
Dorchester is on the frontlines of climate change, from its coastline to its housing and infrastructure. In this episode of DotLife, UMass Boston professors Georgia Mavrommati and Katherine Dafforn discuss what climate change means for the neighborhood today.
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A long-dormant plan to build a condo development along a historic stretch of Washington Street in Lower Mills returns for discussion before the Lower Mills Civic Association next week.
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Dorchester’s Jessica Tang was unanimously re-elected president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Massachusetts during a gathering last weekend of hundreds of delegates representing dozens of local teachers unions.
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Bill Walczak has some thoughts and questions as we move toward a redevelopment plan for Carney Hospital in #Dorchester.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints delivered 60,000 pounds of non-perishable foods from Utah to needy families at Dorchester’s Mary Ann Brett Food Pantry last week.
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NEW— Rep. Ayanna Pressley's push to extend Haitian TPS for three years clears key House vote. The measure — if successful — would extend TPS protections for Haitians through April 2029.
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NEW— Boston's next fire commissioner will be Rodney Marshall, a Boston College graduate and a "proud son of Dorchester."
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Today is One Boston Day— the anniversary of the 2013 marathon bombing that killed four- including 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester.
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Naamah Brown grew tired of apologizing for her nine-year-old son Jason at playgrounds and indoor gyms when things become too much for him, so the Dorchester mom decided to create a safe play space for him and other kids on the autism spectrum.
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A development team has scaled back the number of units – from 24 to 18 – in a building they are proposing for the site of the Old Dorchester Post in Adams Village, according to plans shown during a meeting of the Cedar Grove Civic Association last week. www.dotnews.com/2026/04/14/d...
The public is invited to attend a workshop this Saturday (April 18) at the Codman Square Branch of the Boston Public Library to learn more about an effort to memorialize and identify Black women buried in Dorchester's Cedar Grove Cemetery.
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Dorchester's own Taina Mair has been selected by Seattle Storm as #14 pick in WNBA draft.
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New in DotLife podcast:
The top stories from The Reporter, including:
The latest on the Stephenson King-Officer O'Malley case;
Tech Boston Academy's students win Aspen Challenge;
and Dorchester's Taina Mair looks to future and WNBA draft.
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This week's edition of The Reporter is now in circulation across the neighborhoods. You can also read it here — no paywalls!
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The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate will open its doors to the public for a free open house on Thursday, April 23, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., offering a slate of family-friendly activities during the April school vacation week.
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An oral history project that focuses on stories from a wide range of Dorchester community members from teenagers to elders who left Vietnam in the 1970s has been turned into a 90-minute documentary that producers hope to screen publicly this summer.
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Opinion— A new study makes the case for Community Land Trusts and why they can be an important tool in closing the racial wealth gap in Boston and beyond.
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Senator Nick Collins (D-Boston) speaks during a DotLife podcast interview with host Erin Caldwell. Photo courtesy DotLife
State Senator Nick Collins discussed his concerns about affordability and taxes in Boston and his ideas about the future of the Carney Hospital site in Dorchester on the latest episode of the DotLife podcast.
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A high-profile civil rights attorney representing Stephenson King Jr.’s family said Thursday that King was in the midst of a mental health crisis when Boston police fatally shot him and that body camera footage from his shooting should be released.
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Above: Rebekah Sopher— fondly called “Ms. Rebekah” by the children she serves as a librarian at the BPL’s Codman Square branch— is shown at her desk last month. Photo by Nevaeh Berenato
Meet Rebekah Sopher, the new Children’s Librarian at Codman Square BPL branch in #Dorchester.
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Team photo of Boston Emeralds.
Team photo of Dot City FC.
Dorchester is home to two semi-pro soccer teams in the same league. On Easter Sunday, they met for the first time on the pitch at BC High for what's been dubbed the "Dot Derby."
Who won this inaugural tilt between the Boston Emeralds and Dot City FC?
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