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Despite a decrease in student enrollment by 15.2 percent since 2014-15, officials have unveiled a long-term facilities vision for the Boston Public Schools (BPS) without identifying a single building that would close ... Read more.
With the current state of chaos in Haiti at the forefront, the annual celebratory Boston Haitian American Unity Parade could not go on without serious thought and solidarity with those who suffer perilous conditions on ... Read more.
Fresh off meeting Pope Francis and participating in the Vatican Climate Change conference, Mayor Wu followed visited Savin Hill’s McConnell Park on May 23 for the first in a series of planned coffee hours in Dorchester. ... Read more.
The annual Haitian American breakfast and ceremonial flag raising to commemorate the May 18 Flag Day took place on City Hall Plaza last Friday (May 17) and was used as a vehicle to highlight young Haitian American artists ... Read more.
Add to the ‘hype’ of the Dorchester Day Parade with College Hype’s annual Dot Day t-shirt.
The custom print and embroidery business, founded by Jack Doherty in 1987, began in a dorm room at Westfield State ... Read more.
Last year Dorchester’s own David and Stephen St. Russell – known as the “Renovation Husbands – starred on HGTV’s show “Battle on the Mountain,” but it wasn’t until the end of February that they could finally share their ... Read more.
Squares+Streets has come to Dorchester. The Boston Planning and Development Agency’s (BPDA) local planning process officially started in Fields Corner two weeks ago. Codman Square’s kickoff was postponed when the city ... Read more.
Michael J. Pallamary lives in California, but he grew up in Dorchester and still visits a few times a year. With the recent publication of his first novel, “Days of Eight,” he brings his readers back to his version of the ... Read more.
Dave McKay, then 13, sat in his math classroom decades ago at the former St. Marks School on Centre Street ditching his assignment to focus on calculating statistics for the neighborhood baseball team he was helping to ... Read more.
The VietAID community center in Fields Corner was the setting for a unique competition last week (May 21) as thirteen would-be entrepreneurs vied for prize money in an event aimed at boosting Asian-American businesses. ... Read more.
The Little Miss and Young Miss Dorchester contests were held last Saturday on May 25 at the Saint John Paul II Academy’s Columbia Road campus, with participants speaking and answering questions from long-time coordinator ... Read more.
(This list of parade participants is in alphabetical order, not in the order of procession.)
4 Star Dance Studio
Allepo Shriners
Bay Cove Human Services
Bethel Hispanic Seventh
Day ... Read more.
Dorchester’s porch fest-style musical celebration, Dorchfest, will return to the Ashmont-Adams section of the neighborhood for a third time on Sat., June 1, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
More than two dozen porches, patios ... Read more.
State officials joined beachgoers in South Boston on a sunny 80-degree afternoon last Friday to talk about water safety and services on the waterfront before the start of the Memorial Day weekend.
Brian Arrigo, ... Read more.
For six years now, it has existed as a dream project, but just beyond the grasp of the people who conjured it up in the first place. But now, the ambitious plan to build a $70 million state-of-the-art indoor facility to ... Read more.
Look for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester to have a large presence in this Sunday’s Dot Day Parade. The club will begin an observation of its 50th anniversary this weekend with an alumni reunion event at their ... Read more.
A large crowd gathered on Memorial Day afternoon to observe the 37th annual Vietnam Veterans Memorial ceremonies at Dorchester’s permanent park on Morrissey Boulevard to those killed in the war.
The event featured ... Read more.
‘We can’t close our way out of’ enrollment spiral
Despite a decrease in student enrollment by 15.2 percent since 2014-15, officials have unveiled a long-term facilities vision for the Boston Public ... Read more.
Educators at Codman Academy Charter Public School announced recently that they are organizing a union with the Boston Teachers Union (BTU). The new entity will include more than 60 staff at the school and is the second ... Read more.
Although the skies weren’t sunny last Saturday (May 18), the 44th annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale was a bright spot for deals and bargains on good stuff – as well as some neighbor-to-neighbor bartering. The event brings ... Read more.
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