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A discussion about changes to parking enforcement, including the possible installation of meters in the Fields Corner business district and permit parking for residents, drew mixed reviews at a meeting of the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) last Tuesday (May 2). The in-person session, the first open forum on the traffic situation with residents and business owners, was

Facing a May 30 deadline to pass a new map of the nine City Council district boundaries, councillors this week squabbled over the next steps as Mayor Michelle Wu urged them to move quickly and laid out her own map, which unites neighborhoods across the city, including Dorchester’s Neponset, Fields Corner, Uphams Corner, Bowdoin Geneva and Adams Village within District 3.

The 27th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace took to the streets of Dorchester last Sunday morning in support of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute’s work to assist survivors of homicide and to advocate for xwho joined the walk was US Rep. Ayanna Pressley, shown above as the walk made its way up Dorchester Avenue near Town Field. This year’s event followed a route through

Thousands flooded the streets of Dorchester for the 27th annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace, a fund-raiser and anti-violence rally that spotlights mothers who have lost children to street crime.

Mayor Michelle Wu on Friday evening released her effort to redraw the lines of the City Council’s nine district seats, coming days after a federal judge nixed a previously enacted map and upended Boston’s political sector. The map unites Dorchester’s Ward 16 entirely within District 3, currently represented by Frank Baker, who is not running for reelection. Wu urged

Mayor Michelle Wu on Friday evening released her effort to redraw the lines of the City Council’s nine district seats, coming days after a federal judge nixed a previously enacted map and upended Boston’s political sector.

A federal judge has told the City Council that it has to redraw the map of the political boundaries of its nine district seats that councillors had approved last fall after sparring over its outlines for months.

Mayor Michelle Wu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Reporter in her City Hall office this week as she prepares to launch a multi-week tour of neighborhood parks, beginning in Fields Corner’s Town Field on Fri., May 12, at 10 a.m. The Reporter will publish a series of articles based on our conversation with her. We begin with her thoughts on safety concerns in the

The City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a US federal judge ordered on Monday. Councillors verbally sparred for months last fall before a 9-4 vote on a map that sliced up Dorchester-based District 3, particularly the Neponset area. Opponents of the map “demonstrated a likelihood of success” in their lawsuit

Dorchester resident John FitzGerald, the 41-year-old son of a legendary state lawmaker and a veteran of City Hall, has joined the race to succeed District 3 Councillor Frank Baker. The field has continued to grow since Baker’s April 20 announcement that he wouldn’t run for reelection. Meetinghouse Hill activist Jennifer Johnson and Fields Corner schoolteacher Joel Richards had