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On a spiritual level, the journey of 50Kitchen is a lot longer than the 710 miles between Dorchester, ...

Boston apartment: Two buildings at Dot Block open for lease with room for Fluffy and Fido and rents starting at $2,500.

You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline. Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus-Citizen. The year was 1983, and the insert’s red-white-and-black cover saluted a high point of the preceding twelve months with a lead photo of President Ronald Reagan

This beginner’s guide to the Dot Day Parade was originally published in June 2015. Can you feel it? The sense of anticipation, joy, and wonder, reverberating up and down Dot Ave? The parade brings together all the different ethnic groups that make up Boston’s biggest and best neighborhood. You could spend a year going to all the different ethnic fests across Boston. Or just

John FitzGerald, an official at the Boston Planning and Development Agency and candidate for District 3, on Wednesday picked up endorsements from two major Dorchester-based unions and a former District 3 councillor. FitzGerald, an Adams Village resident who has worked at both the quasi-public BPDA and within Mayor Marty Walsh’s administration, is one of a half-dozen or so

In a 10-2 vote, councillors on Wednesday sent to Mayor Wu’s desk a map that redraws the boundaries of the nine district seats. The vote ends weeks of turmoil for the 12-member body, which was tasked by a federal judge to take another shot at drawing a new map. Patti Saris, the judge, ruled that civic groups and some Dorchester residents, upset that the precincts around Florian

With at-large Councillor Ruthzee Louijeune at the helm, the City Council seems close to a consensus on approving new boundaries of its nine district seats. Louijeune, the chair of the Civil Rights Committee who is presiding over the redistricting process, has in the last week held multiple meetings of her panel as she and others raced to meet election-driven deadlines in

Lawyers for several voting rights advocacy groups, which played a role last fall in redrawing the political boundaries of the nine City Council district seats, are now seeking to intervene in the federal court case at the center of the city’s chaotic political scene. NAACP Boston, MassVOTE, the Chinese Progressive Association and other groups are seeking to intervene in the

When you re-read a book, the ending never changes, but this summer, Dorchester residents will have the opportunity to rewrite the story of time-challenged clocks, toasters, and toys, with volunteer help amid the shelves of romance, thrillers, and sci-fi novels at local libraries.   Members of the community have been invited to bring damaged items to the first of three local

Mayor Wu and a cadre of city leaders visited Town Field in Fields Corner last Friday morning for the launch of her 2023 Neighborhood Coffee Hour event and used the occasion to officially cut the ribbon at the park’s recently renovated Gibson Playground.