Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco’s third-floor corner office on the UMass Boston campus looks out over dirt mounds surrounding a massive gash, where there once was a science building and a windswept plaza built atop a...
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When current high school seniors at the Boston Community Leadership Academy (BCLA) were recruited years ago for the new BCLA-McCormack 7-12 School on Columbia Point – they were promised that they would move onto a fully ... Read more.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB), the city’s largest youth-serving nonprofit organization, held its 2023 Annual Dinner at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport to celebrate the organization’s staff and kick off its ... Read more.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD) has named Pooja Ika as this year’s New England Women’s Leadership Awards (NEWLA) Event Chair. The event will be held on May 15.
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Rebuilding Together Boston, a nonprofit, recently teamed up with the builders from “This Old House” to fix up a home off Humphreys Street in Uphams Corner.
The no-cost repairs were made to the two-family home of 75 ... Read more.
Dorchester has been the focus of political conflict in Boston over the past few months. The City Council redistricting was mostly fought within our borders, and a proposal to transform a nearly empty Comfort Inn into ... Read more.
A large fight among TechBoston Academy students that started on the basketball court in Roberts Playground near Armandine and Washington streets ended with at least two ... Read more.
A federal judge last week sentenced NOB gang leader Michael "G Fredo" Brandao, 22, to nine years in prison for his guilty plea to RICO charges.
Federal prosecutors had asked for 12 years, saying that even after ... Read more.
As the MBTA struggles with service delays and prepares to suspend downtown Orange Line service for three upcoming weekends to work on tracks that were part of last year's month-long end-to-end shutdown, Gov. Maura Healey ... Read more.
When Dorchester native Judith Foster’s youngest son was murdered in 2013 in Charlotte, N.C, just a few months shy of his college graduation, she decided to turn her pain into purpose. Foster started taking nature walks as ... Read more.
Mayor Wu proclaimed last Wednesday, Jan.18, 2023, as Carla Tankle Day in Boston in honor of the Dorchester resident’s long-time service to the city. She has worked for several years at the Boston Transportation Department ... Read more.
A wine and cheese tasting tutorial and a Mass. General Hospital health seminar, all over Zoom. That, among other things, is what the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is offering to Greater Boston adults over the ... Read more.
A three-year-old organization, the Dropout Academy, is partnering with Roxbury Community College (RCC) in an effort aimed at helping students of color “drop out” of circumstances where “limiting thoughts” get in the way ... Read more.
A Monday morning brawl among eighth graders at Boston Latin Academy that left one student injured prompted four Boston city councillors to fire off a second letter to BPS Supt. Mary Skipper this week. The same group of ... Read more.
Scores of residents and professionals from the neighborhood delighted in taking a look at the renovated Pierce Building that has been painstakingly restored by the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (EDC) ... Read more.
A proposal that would place a four-story building with 24 condominium units on Coffey Street has received approval from the board of the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA). The development team includes Mildot ... Read more.
I have learned a lot of lessons in my half-century in Dorchester, both as a community activist and in my 42 years running organizations, and some of these lessons are relevant to the discussion of how development happens ... Read more.
Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) officials met last Thursday with state Rep. Brandy Fluker Oakley and local residents as the agency restarts an overhaul of River Street’s Ryan playground and wading pool. ... Read more.
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center’s new affiliation with the Boston Medical Center is being hailed as a partnership that will allow the facility to refer patients for specialty services and expand “the menu of ... Read more.
UMass Boston’s Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences is set to receive $3 million for a “home care digital and simulation lab,” courtesy of the federal government.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, a South Boston ... Read more.
A former St. Brendan’s altar boy has returned to his old neighborhood to propose a retail cannabis venture for an empty storefront on Gallivan Boulevard and so far, his team has received the neighborhood’s blessing.
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The latest iteration of “Dorchester Bay City” earned plaudits from community members as the $5 billion proposal, which would remake the former Bayside Expo Center and the Santander Bank complex on Morrissey Boulevard into ... Read more.
Diustin Cruz, the owner of La Parrilla, 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester, didn't appear at a licensing hearing Tuesday on a triple shooting early on Oct. 30 in what police ... Read more.
Mayor Michelle Wu has tapped John Borders IV, a Dorchester native who previously worked for the Boston Celtics, as her new director of tourism, sports and entertainment. He started the job Monday.
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A Dorchester man faces a federal murder-for-hire charge after he allegedly paid a hit man who was really an FBI agent the first $500 installment for killing his estranged wife, who had kicked him out of their home, and ... Read more.
An independent report from the national Council of Great City Schools (CGCS) on safety in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) recommended forming a committee of stakeholders to discuss restoring school police. The report also ... Read more.
