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Universal childcare - where children are entitled to a free or cheap place at nursery or daycare - does not benefit the majority of youngsters, according to the report.

More than 500 children and families gathered at Pope John Paul II Park in Neponset on Oct. 26 for the annual Halloween Pumpkin Parade, formerly the Pumpkin Float, for a night of music, games, costumes, and – of course – candy by the handful. The event had been cancelled due to the pandemic for a couple of years but returned last year with good results.

The annual Neponset Day festival went off without a hitch on a crisp, blue-sky morning and afternoon at Pope John Paul II Park last Sunday. Hundreds of friends, families, neighbors, and Neponset River advocates flooded the park with positivity, eating lunch from the food trucks and ice cream vendors, then taking a paddle along the rolling river. The park has a dock and canoe

If left untouched, Tenean Beach will continue to flood and eventually affect the MBTA’s Red Line extension to Braintree, I-93 and Morrissey Boulevard — three major transportation lines in Dorchester that carry hundreds of thousands of riders and drivers every day, according to a new report.

The Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, paid a flying visit to Charleville last Monday afternoon, where she visited Charleville Sheltered Housing Complex at Love Lane, and the Macauley Day Centre at Main Street.

A McDonalds manager in Cashel has sought help from a Traveller advocacy group in relation to staff and customers being harassed.

For the second time in a year, the Zoning Board of Appeal has rejected a proposal by a billboard company and the Polish American Citizens Club to erect a digital billboard on club property to beam ads at Expressway drivers - and to help financially support the non-profit club. The club and Media Partners MRV of Norwell are already suing the zoning board over its rejection of

In the health, rail and the postal services, low pay, safety concerns and fear of losing rights have pushed staff to industrial action

The long fight over a digital billboard conversion in the parking lot of Boston Bowl on Morrissey Boulevard looks to have cleared the lane and the pins are falling in the direction of the project’s proponents. While MassDOT officials said on Tuesday that no decision had been made on the permitting of the digital billboard conversion, Administrative Law Judge Al Caldarelli

A group of neighbors and the owners of the Boston Bowl property on Morrissey Boulevard are in “wait and see” mode this month as an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) reviews an appeal to convert an existing static sign on the site into a digital billboard that faces the Southeast Expressway. The state’s Office of Outdoor Advertising (OOA) discussed the matter during its monthly