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For more than 30 years, the nostalgic image of kids working their paper routes has been a reality in Dorchester: Each week the Reporter is distributed by local kids to their customers around the neighborhood. It’s a reminder of the way things used to be on a massive scale, and a welcome small job for Dorchester youth in 2023. The operation is based on Mary O’Brien’s front

In his first formal endorsement since leaving City Hall and the Biden administration, Marty Walsh is backing John FitzGerald in the race to replace Frank Baker, who isn't running for reelection after spending more than a decade as District 3’s councillor. FitzGerald, 41, is a son of the late Mission Hill state Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald, who served with Walsh in the state

Brothers Deli is an essential part of Mattapan Square, opening at 7:30 a.m. seven days a week to serve up hearty breakfasts, scrambled eggs and grits, and other fare for the steady stream of people coming in off Blue Hill Avenue. Nine years ago, it was also the site of a fateful meeting between three state lawmakers who had just toured a MBTA-owned vacant lot on River Street,

Candidates for Johnson County Mayor on stage at Heritage Hall in Mountain City for the mayoral debate. Photo by Dan …

There were tears of joy and simultaneous calls to action by community members last Friday as Gov. Baker and Cardinal Sean O’Malley joined Mattapan leaders at a groundbreaking event for Morton Station Village, a four-story building that will soon rise next to the Fairmount Line station on the former site of a Boston Police station. The project brings with it 40 units of

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By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff January 7, 2021 Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff PS Gourmet coffee store will open in newly renovated space at the high-profile intersection of Gallivan Boulevard and Adams Street. Bill Forry photo A popular iced coffee chain whose Adams Corner location was shuttered by a fire in 2017 is set to make a return to the neighborhood in the coming weeks. John Lydon, who owns the property at the corner of Adams Street and Gallivan Boulevard where PS Gourmet will set up ...

Dont count me out, says Rep. Holmes When Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo filed an official notice last Friday that he has entered job negotiations with Northeastern University, his alma mater, his action seemed to most to set the stage for the election of Majority Leader Ron Mariano of Quincy to the speaker’s chair that DeLeo has held for 12 of his 30 years in the chamber, a record-long tenure for any House leader in state history. To most, maybe, but not to Rep. Russell Holmes of Ma...

Weekly Roundup - phasing facts Recap and analysis of the week in state government BOSTON - The historic Hoosac Tunnel, running through the mountains between North Adams and Florida, is four-and-three-quarters miles long. The Big Digs Tip ONeill Tunnel goes for a mile and a half under downtown Boston. And the tunnel we unknowingly descended into sometime last winter when the novel coronavirus first arrived in Massachusetts? That ones measured not in miles, but in months, and we still have a ways...