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Long-time Dorchester resident Milton Bramble stood on a vacant lot at the corner of Harvard and Standish Streets last week and recalled playing on the grassy patch years ago as a kid. It is just one of many empty, city-owned lots — many of them vacant for several decades— that still dot the landscape of the Talbot Harvard Triangle. Now, Bramble is part of a team selected by

The City of Boston today announced the distribution plan for free, at-home rapid antigen test kits for all city residents. The initial distribution began this past weekend with delivery of test kits to many Boston Public Library branches and Boston Centers for Youth & Families community centers. The free test kits are currently available at BCYF community centers at Paris Street in East Boston, Hyde Park on River St., Mildred Ave.

As Thanksgiving arrives and we all think about turkeys, it’s hard to ignore the ongoing shock value of seeing wild bands of gobblers traipsing through the west side of Dorchester causing havoc, threatening people and just being downright odd on a daily basis. Even though turkeys became more common here a while ago, one can just never get used to seeing them in the same way as

Fresh Food Generation will open its first restaurant in Dorchester's Codman Square. Read more on Boston.com.

Crews were called just after 3 a.m. to the fire at a McDonalds on Washington Street in Codman Square.

At a recent Boston Raiders Pop Warner football practice at the program’s temporary Hyde Park home, scores of kids from Dorchester and Mattapan could be seen across the field wearing shoulder pads and throwing around the football with excitement. But the adults behind the program tout that the ideas of mentorship, discipline, and structure within the game are what has produced

Police arrested a man after a 7-year-old girl was grazed by a bullet while walking on the sidewalk in a crowded area of Dorchester’s Codman Square.

A super PAC supporting Andrea Campbell’s mayoral campaign believes 68 percent of likely voters remain “up for grabs” ahead of the Sept. 14 preliminary, according to an internal memo written by a 2013 candidate for mayor. The super PAC has another TV ad in the works, said the memo, which was obtained by the Reporter. Two ads are already up on TV. Super PACs, as they did in

The Boston Public Library will host free ice cream trucks outside its branch locations during the last two weeks of August as part…

During a recent visit to Codman Square Health Center, I was chided by a staff member who noted that whenever she sees me there, I am taking a group on a tour. She’s probably right. Over my 47 years of involvement in Codman Square, I’ve given hundreds of tours, not just of the health center, but of Codman Square itself. People have come from many countries and dozens of states,