Dorchester Reporter

The public is invited to attend a workshop this Saturday (April 18) at the Codman Square Branch of the Boston Public Library to learn more about an effort to memorialize and identify Black women buried in Dorchester's Cedar Grove Cemetery. dotnews.com/2026/04/14/sat…

Dorchester's own Taina Mair has been selected by Seattle Storm as #14 pick in WNBA draft. dotnews.com/2026/04/14/wnb…

New in DotLife podcast: The top stories from The Reporter, including: The latest on the Stephenson King-Officer O'Malley case; Tech Boston Academy's students win Aspen Challenge; and Dorchester's Taina Mair looks to future and WNBA draft. dotnews.com/2026/04/13/dot…

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Despite some modest gains, Blacks and Latinos in Massachusetts are trailing whites in homeownership, business ownership, and wealth accumulation, state officials said during a State House hearing held last week, via @YawuMiller dotnews.com/2026/04/08/sta…

MBTA says Red Line signal repairs at Columbia Junction near JFK-UMass were finished ahead of schedule. Regular service resumed on Wednesday. dotnews.com/2026/04/09/mbt…

The family of Stephenson King, Jr. (shown here), who was shot to death by a Boston Police officer who was attempting to arrest him while he was driving a car-jacked vehicle on March 11, has hired high-profile attorney Ben Crump. dotnews.com/2026/04/08/fam…

The justices of the state's Supreme Judicial Court peppered lawyers for the city of Boston and plaintiffs suing over the White Stadium project with questions in a hearing this morning. dotnews.com/2026/04/08/sjc…

Should Roxbury's Ruggles station be re-named to honor trailblazing author Phillis Wheatley? dotnews.com/2026/04/08/som…

Boston officials planning a tighter budget for FY27 are pointing to multiple factors, from “economic headwinds” and faltering growth in the tax base to a bulge in healthcare spending, partly due to the cost of medications for weight control. dotnews.com/2026/04/08/wu-…

When it comes to climate change and flooding, Dorchester’s Port Norfolk is always at the center of the conversation. The village is now the focus of a city pilot program offering free home assessments to about 40 or 50 property owners starting this month. dotnews.com/2026/04/07/cit…

We try to convert them all, but we do miss a few... PULSE program faculty member David Manzo '77 writes why he's still a Yankee fan in the @DotNews: bit.ly/Manzo_DotNews0…

Housing activists from across Massachusetts gathered in front of the State House on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to pass rent control legislation. dotnews.com/2026/04/07/ren…

A gas station on Morton Street that is slated to house a five-story residential building has been sold for $6 million. dotnews.com/2026/04/07/new…

Police say a joint BPD-DEA raid at a Dorchester home earlier today resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of cocaine, fentanyl, and meth and the arrest of a Weymouth man. dotnews.com/2026/04/06/dot…

Don't miss this week's episode of DotLife podcast! dotnews.com/2026/04/03/dot…

The weekly DotNews segment of DotLife podcast: • Cedar Grove Gardens to become nail salon? • Ongoing Blue Hill Ave. bus debate • Rep. Pressley advances Haitian TPS petition • A project to promote Neponset River • Navy's oldest warship meets the newest youtube.com/watch?v=ZhFvtq…

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This week's edition of the Dorchester Reporter is now in circulation across the neighborhoods. You can also read it here (no paywall): dotnews.com/2026/04/02/apr…

Activists hoping to halt an ongoing construction park at White Stadium made a public appeal this week ahead of what will likely be a decisive court hearing in front of the state's Supreme Judicial Court on April 8. dotnews.com/2026/04/02/def…