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Donned in their South Vietnamese military or police uniforms, Nguyen Ngon, Tran Thin, Kim Dang, and about two dozen other Vietnamese American residents annually march along Dorchester Avenue in the Dorchester Day Parade and enter Fields Corner, home to the neighborhood’s Vietnamese American community, to a standing ovation. Along the rest of the parade route, applause is also

The owner of a Fields Corner convenience store was arrested last week and charged with allegedly bribing a state Lottery official in a scheme to cash in $5,600 worth of winning tickets that did not belong to him. Information sent from Attorney General Maura Healey’s office said that the defendant— Tuan Tquan, aka Tommy Tran, 59, was arraigned on May 26 in Dorchester District

Humans are social animals, and our social natures have been greatly harmed by the pandemic. We all know the big numbers: one million dead in the US, with more than 60 percent of adults and 75 percent of children likely to have had the virus. Worldwide, the official death count is over six million, though because of what it cites as undercounting, the World Health Organization

After a two-year pandemic-prompted hiatus, the Dorchester Day Parade will journey up Dorchester Avenue once again this Sunday, June 5. The march, which starts at 1 p.m. in Lower Mills, follows a three-mile course up the Avenue to Columbia Road. The all-volunteer committee that organizes the day’s events hopes it will regain its foothold as the year’s largest celebration of

After many years, Bill Jacques finally achieved his goal of getting a hole in one at a course in the Villages while playing with his wife and friends.

Several businesses along Dorchester Avenue have been hit hard by a wave of graffiti targeting their properties in recent weeks, an uptick that is prompting at least one company to re-consider its plans to open for business. The rash of “tagging” has been centered in the Fields Corner and Glover’s Corner area, according to merchants and civic leaders, who are weighing new

MBTA bus service would increase significantly in key areas under a new plan rolled out Monday, but funding and staffing uncertainty pose obstacles for the effort to reimagine a core pillar of the agency’s operations. In what MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak pitched as an “exciting inflection point,” officials unveiled a draft new map for the constellation of bus routes in

There has been a consistent and steady drumbeat over the last few months from the Boston SOS (Safety in Our Schools) group, and that has simply been for the city to come up with a plan that will keep the public schools free of guns. As of this week, organizers in the group said, their calls have only been returned with silence.

Goal: Renovate or upgrade every facility before 2032; plan sees new construction During a visit to the McKinley School in the city’s South End on Thursday, Mayor Michelle Wu announced an ambitious $2 billion (or more) “Green New Deal for BPS” initiative that would see every school in the Boston Public School system upgraded or renovated – and some new buildings constructed –

The former Melville Avenue home of New Kids on the Block members Jonathan and Jordan Knight sold last month for $1.75 million, even as the city continues to study the idea of the home becoming a Boston Landmark. The 10 Melville Ave. home had been a lodging facility for the Salvation Army known as the Jubilee House over the past two decades, and was used in that fashion in