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Less than one-fifth of Boston’s electorate trickled to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that will bring a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics to the 13-member body. The new faces will include John FitzGerald, who posted a decisive victory over Joel Richards in the race to succeed Frank Baker as the District 3 councillor.

For more than two decades, it was a symbol of decay and disinvestment – a once-bustling, but now-abandoned Boston Police station house left to rot when officers moved to new quarters a few blocks away in 1988. Last Friday, as elected officials and dignitaries from across the city gathered for a ribbon-cutting of a new housing complex dubbed Morton Station Village, the

It was impossible to bury the jubilation brought to the table by hundreds of little girls and young ladies on cheer teams from Boston, Brockton, and Providence who packed into the Madison Park gymnasium on Saturday for their Pop Warner league’s first-ever meet in the intense, growing world of youth cheerleading.

The Fields Corner Civic Association is asking the MBTA to provide more details about the status and integrity of three bridges that carry Red Line trains over neighborhood streets this month. During the group’s Oct. 3 meeting in the Kit Clark Senior building, civic leaders said they want an MBTA official to address their concerns about the bridges on Dorchester Avenue, Geneva

It has been decades since Bessie Gaul could walk from her apartment near Bowdoin-Geneva and get fresh food in a high-quality store. But last Saturday morning, she went shopping with a smile as the long-awaited Dorchester Food Coop (DFC) opened its doors on the ground floor of a new building at 195 Bowdoin St. “I’ve been waiting for this for 54 years,” said Gaul, who was with

When Auston Harris looked out on the newly finished garden and open space on Magnolia Street last week, he recalled the early days of the effort when he was a teen-ager who joined with other volunteers to dig out polluted soil on the site and level off the ground by hand. He remembers long days with a shovel and pickaxe driven by a community vision for the space that at the

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

While ongoing roofing work seeks to button up the leaks in Humphreys Art Studios at Uphams Corner, the second phase of New Atlantic Development’s plan to save the studios – which includes a new 21-unit affordable housing development – is underway. “This has already been given a thumbs up,” said Catherine Infantino, of New Atlantic. “Part of the effort now is reminding people

Long before Dorchester native Calvin “Wolf” Davis was earning accolades for his many track successes, including a bronze medal in the 400m hurdles in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, his family knew he had the gift of speed, mostly because no one could catch him when he got into trouble. “We always knew he was faster than anyone else,” said his sister, LaTanya Davis, in an

The first in-person community meeting regarding a controversial proposal by Boston Medical Center to build supportive housing at the Shattuck Hospital site on the Dorchester-Jamaica Plain border took place last Tuesday (Sept. 19) at the Lena Park Community Center in Dorchester. It was a tale of two meetings: BMC officials and some of their partners convened in an official