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Voters in a handful of City Council districts face a deadline in choosing their candidates, if they haven’t already voted by mail or in-person at an early voting location. Polls close at 8 p.m. next Tuesday (Sept. 12)_ in the preliminaries for District 3 (Dorchester and the South End), District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), District 6 (Jamaica Plain and West

Dorchester is by far Boston's largest and most populous community. But Dot, as it's known to locals, is hard to define as a singular neighborhood: rather, it's a cluster of villages covering six square miles that's home to a fifth of Bostonians.

Boston's neighborhoods are the cultural dynamos that give this city verve and character beyond the hackneyed tropes you see in movies. Here are our guides to 20 Boston communities.

Boston Public Library Invites Residents to “Book it Around Boston”

This is a guest blog post by the Zine Selection Team. Have you seen something new floating around some of our branches? They're…

In the coming weeks, voters will get a chance to make their choices in the first round of balloting for the open seat for the City Council’s District 3 as seven candidates vie to replace Frank Baker. The longtime councillor, first elected in 2011, isn’t running for another two-year term on the 13-member body. Open seats don’t come along often: Before Baker, Maureen Feeney

The Friends of the Fields Corner Library are more than happy that their branch is going into construction in early 2024, but at the same time they are sounding the alarm about the void that will be left in the neighborhood during the two- or three-year construction timeline. Rachel Kemper, who is part of the Friends group, said the topic has come up frequently throughout 2023,

Mayor Wu’s administration is moving to revamp its approach to Mass. and Cass, the area at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard known for homelessness and drug issues. The area sits in District 3, a Dorchester-based City Council seat with boundaries that snake up through the South Bay shopping plaza into part of the South End. A seven-way

The MBTA plans to fully close the Ashmont branch of the Red Line and the Mattapan trolley line during the second half of October. The shutdown will last between Saturday, Oct. 14 and Sunday, Oct. 29. The MBTA says the closure is needed for “critical” replacement work on the tracks, which are some of the oldest systemwide. The Red Line has been plagued by “slow zones,” with

The T will suspend service on the Red Line’s Ashmont Branch and Mattapan Line for more than two weeks in October to repair tracks and speed trains, General Manager Phil Eng announced Thursday.