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District 3 Councillor Frank Baker’s decision against running for reelection has opened up a seat in a recently reconfigured district that curves down from the Ink Block complex in the South End to Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester’s Neponset neighborhood and includes more of Fields Corner, which has long been a Vietnamese residential and commercial stronghold. The field has two

There are more centenarians nowadays than ever before, we are told, and like Mattapan’s Anna Coleman, who turned 102 on April 10, they continue to amaze with their lived experiences, their active lifestyles, and their spot-on social critiques. Mrs. Coleman, who has lived in the same home in Mattapan for more than 40 years and is the neighborhood’s oldest resident, was the

Ashmont Hill resident Michaela Flatley will be living her dream on May 7 when she opens The Local Hand Shop + Gallery in a retail space on the ground floor of the Carruth Building. A credentialled, accomplished artist, Flatley said she was sick of “working from home every day in her sweatpants” but thought that having her own store was out of reach. “The concept is something I

The Mattapan Teen Center turned into a recruitment center on April 6 as city officials began publicizing a finely tuned youth summer jobs program that will offer up to 7,000 opportunities for youth ages 14-18. Gone are the days of the “red shirts” toiling in the weeds of the neighborhood’s many vacant lots through July and August. Now young people can be matched with jobs that

Crane workers removed the top of the Bayside Expo Center sign, a 41-year-old vestigial token of the long-demolished event hall, on Tuesday afternoon (April 11). The workers spent the morning hours hooking a giant C.J. Shaughnessy crane to the top of the sign and using a blowtorch from a cherry-picker to weaken upper parts of the structure.

At 3 Melville Ave., Kava Realty’s Johnny Ho has succeeded in completing a masterpiece of renovation and new construction in replacing a crumbling structure that was a blight on one of Dorchester’s premier thoroughfares. But all the work comes with a financial asterisk. The property at 3 Melville Ave., once a nursing home, was left vacant for years after the home’s operators

Haitian migrants landing in Massachusetts are waiting months to years for documentation that will allow them to work in the U.S. Meanwhile, worker shortages continue to plague industries from construction to school transportation. Seth Daniel, news editor for the Dorchester Reporter, joins The Common to discuss how this backlog is impacting Haitian immigrants locally and the Boston community at large.

On an ancient hill in Dorchester, all signs pointed to the future Monday when city officials broke ground on what is only Boston’s second new fire station in 40 years. The new Meetinghouse Hill Fire Station got underway late last year with construction crews blasting away at solid ledge rock for several weeks. Work is now underway on the station’s foundation. With that

Nearly every day, scores of Haitian men and women, some of whom walked thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United States, make their way to a modest office in Mattapan Square, the headquarters of the nonprofit Immigrant Family and Service Institute (IFSI). The migrants, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the US government, are looking for help

Today’s front-page report by Seth Daniel on the plight facing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Haitian refugees now living in the Boston area should compel elected leaders and policy makers to find a solution to an increasingly urgent problem in Boston and across the country. In December, the Biden administration announced that it would extend its existing Temporary Protected