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We had a school shooting in Dorchester last week. Like communities all over America, a gunman pierced what should be a sacred sanctuary for our kids and teens and changed the lives of a teacher, a student, and everyone who saw them get shot. And all of us should be outraged. The setting was the parking lot of Tech Boston Academy, the old Dorchester High on Peacevale Road,

A Q&A with comedian and actor Cedric the Entertainer on his new Napa wine brand,...

Last week, the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s board of directors approved a plan to build a new $50 million fieldhouse in Dorchester’s Columbia Point neighborhood. The vote was unanimous, and for good reason: This project, once completed, will be a game-changer for the kids in our city who deserve the sort of state-of-the-art, indoor facility that will be built along

A plan to re-develop the final 14 acres of the old Boston State Hospital property along Morton Street became a flashpoint of controversy this month as some leaders in Mattapan and Dorchester say that a process to pick a new developer for the site was not transparent, a position disputed by a committee set up to oversee the undertaking. The site in question sits near the corner

City officials on Tuesday hailed the expansion of a fare-free bus pilot, which runs for the next two years on Routes 23, 28 and 29. The three routes wind their way through Dorchester and Mattapan. Mayor Michelle Wu highlighted the expansion by taking the Route 29 bus to Jamaica Plain’s Jackson Square MBTA station, from the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Westview Street

Fresh carrots and ripe tomatoes have been welcome neighbors for Marlon Henry and his son, Malachi, who live just down the street from Mattapan’s Fowler Clark Epstein Farm on Norfolk Street. For them, the farm is a constant in their neighborhood and a weekly source of fresh food over the last seven years since it opened. At times, Malachi has gone to the Farm to learn about

There was a special touch between the second and third periods of the hockey game between Boston Latin Academy and Archbishop Williams High School at William Devine Memorial Rink last Tuesday night: Stephanie O’Sullivan wasn’t the only girl on the ice as she and dozens of Dorchester Youth Hockey Chiefs walked out for a ceremony to retire her jersey, No. 28.  The trailblazer

Just a little over a mile of Dorchester’s Washington Street separates Tech Boston Academy (formerly Dorchester High School) from Jeremiah Burke High, and the schools’ two state-ranked boys’ basketball programs share not only proximity, but also a newly competitive rivalry and kinship on and off the floor.

Mayor Michelle Wu visited the Strand Theatre on Tuesday to check out a digital art installation featuring the works of Vincent van Gogh, the 19th-century Dutch impressionist painter. The immersive exhibition has been in residency at the historic theatre since October, perhaps the longest stretch of time in recent memory that the Strand has been in use for one purpose. The Van

In the world of church communities in Dorchester, most of the news is about closings, lower attendance, and contraction, but the story coming out of St. Ambrose Church in Fields Corner is much different. Parishioners are bursting at the seams and riding a unique wave of momentum. Parishioners new and old say the growth comes from an open-mindedness and an accepting of everyone