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As a lifelong Dorchester resident, I grew up seeing my neighbors feeling forgotten by our city government. I heard the frustrations from residents struggling to get what they needed, while other neighborhoods seemed to thrive and flourish. Boston’s district council system was formed in 1983 to provide neighborhoods with more support and direct representation. But there have

The horrific murder of an 11-year-old girl four decades ago in Dorchester’s Ronan Park is again stirring emotions as a proposal to re-name a playground inside the park as a memorial to the victim is under consideration by city officials. Maryann Hanley was found murdered and raped in the park on Aug. 1, 1983. The then-boyfriend, Val Mayfield, of one of her sisters, was

Outside groups, also known as super PACs, laid out six figures in the preliminary election earlier this month, focusing their efforts on District 3, which is anchored in Dorchester, and District 5, which includes Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Roslindale. In District 3, the super PAC primarily funded by New Balance chairman Jim Davis funneled $9,000 to the head of the Cape Verdean

The second Dorchester Avenue Open Streets event put on by the City of Boston and neighborhood partners took place on a gorgeous afternoon last Sunday. The thoroughfare was blocked off from Freeport Street to Ashmont Station until 3:30 p.m. for the event, and hundreds of families, friends, pets, and neighbors took advantage of the closure for a nice Sunday stroll. Various

Much of the fallout from last week’s City Council election has been focused on the defeats of two incumbent district city councillors – Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara – and rightfully so. Never before had any incumbents been bounced by voters in the first round. It was an unprecedented rebuke of two sitting elected members in the modern era of the council. Beyond that, the

No charges will be brought against two Putnam sheriff's officers who fatally shot a man as he was stabbing his girlfriend in Southeast.

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

Voters in select parts of the city on Tuesday trickled into polling locations, choosing two finalists in the open race for City Council District 3, which includes Dorchester and the South End, and deciding to expel Ricardo Arroyo, the incumbent councillor for District 5, which includes Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale. The latter made history, as Arroyo became one of two

With the shutdown of the Red Line’s Ashmont and Mattapan branches a month away, top MBTA officials last Wednesday toured the JFK/UMass transit hub, which is slated to receive a coat of paint and other upgrades during the closure, which is scheduled to start Sat., Oct. 14, and last until Sunday, Oct. 29. The result, T officials have said, will be faster trains, at least on the

Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies” begins with a hint of dread: an electrical outage in the tenacious predawn heat of September 1974. The setting is South Boston, and the whole neighborhood is bracing for a collision. With a daughter on the cusp of her senior year in high school, Mary Pat Fennessy expects to show up at a rally of white parents against the beginning of school