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Dorchester is by far Boston's largest and most populous community. But Dot, as it's known to locals, is hard to define as a singular neighborhood: rather, it's a cluster of villages covering six square miles that's home to a fifth of Bostonians.

This is a guest blog post by the Zine Selection Team. Have you seen something new floating around some of our branches? They're…

The Friends of the Fields Corner Library are more than happy that their branch is going into construction in early 2024, but at the same time they are sounding the alarm about the void that will be left in the neighborhood during the two- or three-year construction timeline. Rachel Kemper, who is part of the Friends group, said the topic has come up frequently throughout 2023,

A changing of the guard is coming at Codman Square Health Center, one of the city’s key outposts for health care, education, and civic engagement. Last week, Sandra Cotterell, who has led Codman since 2011, announced that she plans to retire in the coming months, ending a stellar, four-decade-long career in the field, which includes nearly thirty years in Dorchester. Cotterell

Trees provide a wide range of benefits, from filtering out air pollution, to improving mental health, to cooling city neighborhoods on hot summer days.

Blake Gumprecht’s “North to Boston, Life Histories from the Black Great Migration in New England” focuses on ten men and women who grew up in the South and came to Boston in the 1950s and 1960s. (The years of the Great Migration are generally recognized as 1915 to 1970). Some of the ten came to live in Dorchester and Mattapan, and three are still here. The personal histories

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Gov. Healey officially signed her admin’s first state budget last week. Here are a few notable items that made the cut.

Barren streets means higher temps and worse air quality in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

When Jeremy Colon and Kathy Le started Revamp Training studio in the St. Mark’s area in 2020, they were grateful for their 600-square-foot gym. But gradually they have outgrown the space and routinely found it hard to get people – whether landlords or financiers –to take their expansion plans seriously. That all changed this week for Revamp and six other Dorchester and