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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.
A lifetime Dorchester resident, Chief Marshal Jeff Buckley, now 48, attended Mt. Hope High School in Bristol, RI., and then enlisted in the US Marine Corps. Today, he is a union steward with Local 223 where he has worked ... 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.
The Massachusetts Legislature has tackled the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care by passing a fairly comprehensive package of regulations that may help avoid another meltdown at a major medical system.
But there’s ... 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.
Dorchester resident Joyce Linehan received the Champion of Courage Award last Thursday (May 23) at the annual Children’s Celebration luncheon at Venezia in Neponset that was sponsored by the Boston nonprofit MAXCourage ... Read more.
Play Ball! – The Martin Richard Challenger Baseball program opened its 2024 season this past Sunday (May 26) at the newly renovated McConnell playground in Savin Hill. The pre-game ceremony featured a rendition of the ... Read more.
At the turn of the 20th century, the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) was founded with the mission to care for the neglected and largely forgotten population of animals living on the streets. The idea for this ... 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 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.
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.
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.
In April 1865, Dorchester’s Town Meeting gathered to consider an important civic measure – “to procure…a Corporate Seal of the town.” Many modern residents of Dorchester are familiar with that seal, emblazoned with the ... Read more.
Maeghan Driscoll, 25, is this year’s honorary mayor of Dorchester, a title she earned by raising the most money to support Sunday’s parade. The contest is one of the primary ways that the parade committee finances the ... Read more.
To the Editor:
What an outrage! I attended the May 21 Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) zoom hearing on a development at 243D Savin Hill Ave. Against the opposition of all the abutters directly affected, a thumb’s- ... 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.
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