DotLife podcast is back! Season 3.1: Linda Pham from Tết in Boston on celebrating the Lunar New Year and her experience growing up in Dorchester. Bill Forry joins from the Dorchester Reporter. Plus: Three At Home plays a Tiny Dot Concert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXc...

Holland Tech senior guard Caleb Florence notched his 1,000th career point during a game against English High on Feb. 2. Remarkably, the 17-year-old Grove Hall resident did not play high school basketball as a freshman. dotnews.com/2026/02/12/a...

Opinion— With federal funding for land and water conservation under threat, and the effects of climate change threatening our forests and watersheds, Massachusetts needs to act to protect our legacy of natural beauty — before it’s too late. dotnews.com/2026/02/12/o...

The wife of Seamus Culleton, a 38-year-old Irish man who has lived in the Boston area for nearly 20 years, is urging federal immigration officials to release her husband after ICE agents arrested him in September.

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get,” is how Forrest Gump put it, but if the box is made at Phillips Chocolates on #Dorchester's Morrissey Boulevard, what you’re getting is guaranteed: quality, handcrafted, gourmet chocolates. dotnews.com/2026/02/11/d...

Dorchester's Mather Elementary Schooll held its second annual community Tét Lunar New Year celebration – this is the Year of the Horse – last Friday evening (Feb. 6) in its auditorium with several hundred people in attendance. dotnews.com/2026/02/10/m...

BC High’s brand-new indoor swimming pool will be the scene for a gathering of young athletes who will participate in the school’s initial February School Vacation Swim Clinic later this month. #Dorchester dotnews.com/2026/02/04/b...

City officials last week unveiled a plan to create a half-acre farm, tentatively called “River Street Farm,” to be built on Boston Public Health Commission land next to the Mattapan Heights campus. dotnews.com/2026/02/05/c...

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The total $325 million project cost will be split between the city and Boston Legacy Football Club, a new professional women’s soccer team, which has agreed to put $190 million into the rebuild, as part of its $252 million long-term commitment.

The JFK Library is THE place to be on Presidents’ Day! Join us on Monday, February 16 for our 15th annual Presidents’ Day Festival and experience presidential storytelling, hands-on maker activities, live musical performances, and more for all ages. jfklibrary.org/2026presidentsday

The team charged with re-developing the vacant Carney Hospital campus told civic leaders and neighbors that they intend to build a health care facility and a mix of housing on the 12-acre Dorchester Avenue site. www.dotnews.com/2026/carney-...

NEW— Mayor Michelle Wu has just issued an executive order that offers clear guidance on how city government intends to respond to any future Minnesota-style "surge" of federal immigration agents into Boston. www.dotnews.com/2026/wu-issu...

Editorial—In a remarkable decision blocking the end of TPS for Haitians, US District Court Judge Anna Reyes blasted away at the Trump regime’s moral corruption and the white supremacist impulses that animate his attempt to purge the country of Black and brown people. www.dotnews.com/2026/us-v-do...

Opinions were split among Dorchester residents who participated in a virtual public meeting last week to discuss a proposed development on East Cottage Street that would demolish the Little House and replace it with a six-story extended stay hotel. www.dotnews.com/2026/comment...

Francisco DePina, the new president of Dorchester-based anti-violence program Boston Uncornered was once part of its target demographic. “I was the kid everyone would point their finger at and say, ‘That’s the bad guy." www.dotnews.com/2026/boston-...

After almost two decades of periodic campaigns for recovery and improvement, the MBTA's Red Line fleet in 2026 is still vulnerable to weather, and increasingly buffeted by stiffening headwinds in global trade, via @clovettboston.bsky.social www.dotnews.com/2026/red-lin...

Neighbors and elected leaders are pushing state highway officials to alter plans for a $21-million repair project on a Dorchester stretch of the I-93 expressway that is set to start in April and continue during nighttime hours for the next two years. www.dotnews.com/2026/plans-f...

Boston Public School employees are bracing for bad news this week in the form of layoffs that could impact as many as 400 people, Yawu Miller reports for The Dorchester Reporter. www.dotnews.com/2026/bps-is-...

Local elected officials on Monday night celebrated a federal judge’s decision to stay the Trump administration’s plan to end Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status, applauding its impact on Haitian workers and families here in Massachusetts. www.dotnews.com/2026/judge-g...

Judge blocks racist, Constitution-ignoring regime from beginning to deport several hundred thousand Haitians tomorrow www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-b... #immigrants #TPS #lawsuits

HUGE. DC District Court Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Trump regime's immediate end of TPS for Haitians set for tomorrow. Judge Reyes' 83-page ruling is an absolute banger. She eviscerates Krisit Noem and the regime's assault on the Constitution and decency. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Senator Nick Collins leads letter urging DHS to preserve and extend TPS status for Haitians, adding "They are our neighbors, colleagues, caregivers, and contributors to our Commonwealth. There is no justification to end TPS for Haiti given the facts on the ground." TPS is set to expire on Feb. 3.

New at Media Nation: A stunning violation of the First Amendment as the Trump regime arrests two journalists. dankennedy.net/2026/01/30/a...

Water mains burst in Hyde Park, Dorchester www.universalhub.com/2026/water-m... #Boston #BWSC

Cold weather has crippled a big chunk of the MBTA's Red Line fleet, which is mainly comprised of antiquated cars that break down in very low temps. www.dotnews.com/2026/mbta-co...

Jean Appolon Expressions, the Haitian folkloric and contemporary dance group, celebrated the grand opening of its new dance center in Roxbury’s Nubian Square on Tuesday, Jan. 27. The studio and black box performance space is the group’s first permanent location. bostonhaitian.com/content/jean...

Keegan Hegarty and Kevin Tarr have co-founded the Dorchester-based Boston Emeralds Football Club, which will make its debut in the United Premier Soccer League’s (UPSL) Division 1 on April 4. www.dotnews.com/2026/coming-...

Editorial— Gov. Healey, state leaders should stand-up a rapid-response task force to monitor, police abusive federal agents in the Commonwealth www.dotnews.com/2026/editori...

George Boakye-Yiadom once faced premature death due to a heart condition that ended his pro basketball career. Now 36, he is living a normal life in Mattapan, thanks to an anonymous organ donor and a heart transplant. Now, he's a leading advocate for organ donations. www.dotnews.com/2026/heart-t...

New statement out from Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden condemning ICE, Customs Border Patrol and DHS tactics that “threaten citizens everywhere.”

Apparent '80's holdovers sought for breaking into EMS bay at old Carney Hospital www.universalhub.com/2026/apparen... #Boston #Dorchester #crime

Twenty young men and women took the first step toward becoming members of the Boston Fire Department during a pinning ceremony held last Thursday (Jan. 21) at the new Engine 17/Ladder 7 station on #Dorchester’s Meeting House Hill. www.dotnews.com/2026/twenty-...

No school in Boston on Tuesday.

Gov. Healey: Kristi Noem should resign via State House News Service www.dotnews.com/2026/healey-...

The Reporter's top picks for sledding spots in the neighborhood. www.dotnews.com/2026/what-ar...

MBTA says: "Mattapan Line service will likely be suspended [on Monday, Jan. 26] and replaced with shuttle buses as snow conditions worsen to accommodate expected accumulated snowfall and to protect the nearly 80-year-old trolleys from potential damage."

Snow emergency to start in Boston at 8 a.m. tomorrow. MOTORISTS: If you are parked on a marked "snow emergency" road, you will be towed. Get the latest: www.dotnews.com/2026/wu-snow...

Official snow emergency declaration from @wutrain.bsky.social for city of Boston. Effective 8am on Sunday 1/25

A new $75 million facility in Roxbury's Nubian Square has Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology headed into its next 100 years on solid footing. www.dotnews.com/2026/frankli...

The Pearl in South Bay is closing its doors. www.dotnews.com/2026/south-b...

Construction is expected to start this spring and continue into 2028 on repairing a heavily traveled section of Interstate 93 in Dorchester. www.dotnews.com/2026/i-93-re...

A room filled with elected officials, activists, union officials and residents vented about the slow pace of reform measures within the Boston Police Department (BPD) during a forum held last Saturday afternoon in #Dorchester. www.dotnews.com/2026/frustra...

In a lengthy Mattapan hearing led by @pressley.house.gov and @markey.senate.gov, advocates warned of dire consequences in Massachusetts from the now-imminent end to Haitian TPS status and feared Minneapolis-style ICE deployment via State House News Service www.dotnews.com/2026/lawmake...

In op-ed, Councillor Brian Worrell writes: "Boston deserves a City Council that’s a true co-equal branch: one that collaborates with the administration and isn’t afraid to set its own agenda and lead with our own ideas, oversight and independent judgment." www.dotnews.com/2026/worrell...

Happening now in Mattapan

District 7 City Councillor Miniard Culpepper hosted a community inauguration celebration at the Thelma Burns Building in Grove Hall last week, via @yawumiller.bsky.social www.dotnews.com/2026/culpepp...

The Boston Police Department welcomed 50 new officers into its ranks last Friday (Jan. 9) with a swearing-in ceremony held at Dorchester’s IBEW Freeport Hall. www.dotnews.com/2026/bpd-wel...