Dorchester

After a month of planning with help from about 100 volunteers, Dorchester residents touched by the Boston Marathon bombings gathered this afternoon to jump in moon bounces, paint, eat, and raise money for the One Fund for bombing victims ...

Police arrested two men from Somerville and Dorchester after seeing them exchange heroin and cash at the JFK/UMass Red Line T station Friday night, Transit Police said ...

A Quincy man pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Victor Otoadese, 21, and Sean Repetto, 25, in Dorchester, said a spokeswoman for the Suffolk district attorney's office ...

The first portion of the subway line that would become the MBTA opened more than 115 years ago, and by the standards of that time, it's doing pretty well ...

(Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff) Mayor Thomas M. Menino today at the proposed site of a handicapped friendly park near Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown ...

For the 38th-year in a row another class from Roxbury Community College has received their diplomas and certificates.

POKORSKI, Robert "Staga" In Dorchester, May 16, 2013 ...

The second-annual MathRocks competition brought mathletes from across the city together for a day of putting their mathematical skills to the test ...

Boston residents and area cyclists can provide feedback about proposed locations for new Hubway stations as the bike-share program gears up to expand to the South Boston Innovation District, Jamaica Plain, North Dorchester and Charlestown, city officials announced Thursday.

The cyclist community is coming together to honor the fallen after a string of tragic deaths in Boston this year ...

Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Boston's Chief of Human Services/Boston Centers for Youth & Families' (BCYF) Executive Director Daphne Griffin are pleased to announce that the Boston Neighborhood Basketball League (BNBL), presented by Reebok, is currently accepting registrations for teams to compete in the 44th annual summer season ...

Reporter Staff The tragic events of April 15 affected us all, but Dorchester was especially hard hit ...

Event: Hometown Comfort Our neighborhood is forever changed by the tragedy of April 15 ...

Designer, Michelle Competiellostarted her design business 2 years ago, specializing in print design; invitations; flyers; posters; etc ...

Date:  Sun, 05/19/2013 (All day) On May 19, 2013, join members of the community to take part in Hometown Comfort, a day for our community to honor victims and first responders by collecting needed blood for the Red Cross, raising money for The One Fund-Boston, and supporting one another with the embrace of a hometown ...

Professional dog walker Daniel Lombard gives pets a personal touch for playtime ...

Stretching from South Boston to the Mattapan and Hyde Park line, the First Suffolk district encompasses a number of Bostons neighborhoods and has a diverse make-up of residents ...

'If Trees could talk, would they talk to me?' A poem dedicated to Earth Year #43, April 22, 2013 to April 21, 2014 ...

Shirley-Eustis House Lecture: Immigrant-Built Tenements - Boston and New York- Shirley-Eustis House lecture, May 9, 2013, 6:30pm: Zachary Violette, a PhD candidate in American and New England Studies at Boston University, will examine the ways immigrant tenement builders in Boston and New York used architectural ornament to create meaning in the buildings they built for the poor and the working class at the turn of the 20th-century.

The 2013 Dorchester Day Parade Committee Essay Contest is open to students grades 6-8 living in Dorchester or attending a Dorchester school ...

The three-way race for the Democratic candidate for 1st Suffolk State Senator highlighted changes in the traditional racial, turf and gender positions that have determined election outcomes for the past 40 to 60 years ...

ArtPlace in Uphams Corner is planning an Advisory Group field trip on Sunday, May, 2013 from 1:30pm to 3:00pm to Boston's SOWA Open Market - this in preparation for piloting an Uphams Corner open market for local crafters, artists, musicians and other producers of local products ...

With mitts in hand, members of the Savin Hill Little League marched down Dorchester Avenue Saturday to celebrate the leagues Opening Day.

If you were to move to any Massachusetts community, where should you go? We analyzed and ranked each towns crime rateincluding violent and property crime,the number of public transit options, the number of historical sites per resident, the percentage of acres that are open space, and the number of grocery stores ...

Here's a slideshow of the 10 towns with the cheapest home values in Massachusetts ...

How fun is your town? We ranked the top 10 most fun communities in Massachusetts by analyzing the number of restaurants, theaters, and museums, using Tripadvisor and other online sources, per population data provided by the US Census ...

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