By Bill Forry, Executive EditorDorchester Reporter, September 18, 2024 A rendering shows the preliminary design of the 1975 Project memorial that organizers would like to situated inside Fields Corner’s Town Field park. The key element is a bronze banyan tree sculpture topped with traditional Vietnamese conical hats with four pillars representing distinct waves of Vietnamese migrations to the United States, …

A person uses a CharlieCard.(Craig LeMoult photo / GBH News)  Alexi Cohan  September 03, 2024  Updated  September 04, 2024  Massachusetts residents with an income below 200% of the federal poverty level will be able to apply for reduced MBTA fares under a new program that launched Wednesday.  MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng celebrated the income-eligible reduced fare program in Malden …

By Seth Daniel, News EditorJuly 17, 2024 Danny Wang “feeds” Nguyen Van during the Pho eating contest. The duo tied for second place in the competition. The third annual Little Saigon Night Market/Cho Dem street festival came together in just the right way last Saturday evening as families and people young and old from the neighborhood and beyond mixed and …