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While conditions have improved on the Orange Line, Red Line riders have seen mounting delays in recent months. Read more on Boston.com.

“I want to say something beautiful about Dorchester with your portraits.” That’s the simple, but lovely sentiment behind Mike Ritter’s ‘Beautiful Dot’ photo project, which he staged at six Boston Public Library branches in the neighborhood throughout the fall. Ritter, 42, lives in the St. Mark’s Area of Dorchester with his wife and children and has been a freelance

George Huynh will leave the mayor’s office next month to take over as the new executive director of VietAID, according to the Charles Street-based organization’s board of directors. He starts the new position on Dec. 1 and succeeds Lisette Le, who has served in the role since Jan. 2018. Born and raised in Fields Corner to two Vietnamese refugees, George “has witnessed the vast

Gov. Baker last week signed a $3.76 billion economic development package that includes millions for a new Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center and the Dorchester Field House planned for Columbia Point. The outlays, funded through a state tax surplus and $500 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money, sends $112 million to the MBTA for work and safety

Fields Corner has become the “hot spot” in the city for Bubble Tea and other Asian drinks and desserts, thanks to its cluster of Vietnamese businesses that were well poised to capitalize on an international surge of interest in the market. “I would say Bubble Tea is to Fields Corner what the cannoli is to the North End,” said Jackey West Devine, director of Fields Corner Main

A Linden Street resident who wants to replace a single-family ranch home at 61 Linden St. with a three-story, six-unit building received mixed reviews at the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) meeting on Nov. 1. Phoebe Nguyen, of 52 Linden St., presented the plan along with My Lam last week following a meeting several months ago at which three abutters spoke up in

Fields Corner residents, asked to decide between two finalists for the better use of a ground-level retail space in the new Dot Crossing apartment building now under construction next to the MBTA station, voted to support a literary space that leans heavily on programming, clubs, and other special events – primarily after 6 p.m. and on the weekends. The 1,300-square-foot space

Boston City Councillors are expected to take another run at a map that redraws the political boundaries of the city as some are calling for a halt to the process, known as redistricting. Allston-Brighton Councillor Liz Breadon on Monday released the latest map she expects to bring to the Council chamber floor for a vote on Wednesday.

A flurry of shooting incidents in Dorchester —including the brazen murder of a barber in his own store on Washington Street near Grove Hall— has prompted renewed anxiety about an uptick in violence. Although violent, part one crime is technically down citywide, according to Boston Police statistics, but there has been a significant increase in homicides in Dorchester,

In one corner of the room sits a large pile of laundry waiting for a wash while in another corner there’s the home office and a big work project with a looming deadline. In yet another other room, a couch beckons with the temptation of a morning nap and a Netflix binge session. This is the common 24-hour friction between home and work life that has remote workers looking for