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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.
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.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester will mark its 50th anniversary this year. The organization’s first clubhouse swung open its doors on Deer Street in July 1974, but the effort had begun four years earlier with a core ... Read more.
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.
The first observance of Dorchester Day, in June of 1904, took place under a tent on Savin Hill. A celebration of local history and pride, it was also meant to protect an urban wild with a panoramic view from a frenzy of ... 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 a time when Haitians and their American cousins find it hard to celebrate amid ongoing turmoil back home, a groundbreaking ceremony for Boston’s Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center near North Station brought a welcome ... 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.
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.
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.
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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