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I was wondering when we’d start having retrospective discussions on lessons learned from our bout with Covid 19. My first such invitation came from the Boston Public Health Commission for a program on “Advancing Health ... Read more.
Symone Crawford, the executive director of Dorchester-based Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA), and her staff and volunteers welcomed hundreds of residents, housing advocates, and business leaders to a ... Read more.
The late Jim Clark Sr. rarely missed a civic meeting in Mattapan, in particular those of the Boston State Hospital Community Advisory Committee (CAC) that he chaired for many years. Last Wednesday (April 26), the ... Read more.
With the announcement last week by city officials of a request for proposals (RFP), Franklin Park’s White Stadium, built 78 years ago at a cost of $2 million as a center for Boston Public Schools athletics programs, is on ... Read more.
“PLAN: Mattapan,” an effort to remake the neighborhood by allowing backyard residential units and strengthening Mattapan Square as one of the city’s economic hubs, is set to be placed before the Boston Planning and ... Read more.
As Tiffany Williams put the finishing touches on her planting of a tree in Dorchester’s Dr. Loesch Family Park on Wainwright Street last Friday, it was an exercise in celebrating a new life, and remembering one lost. For ... Read more.
In what was likely the final meeting before their proposal goes before a city board for approval, Pine Street Inn and The Community Builders, the two nonprofits seeking to revamp the Comfort Inn at 900 Morrissey Blvd. ... Read more.
Since City Councillor Frank Baker’s announcement two weeks ago that he won’t be running for a seventh term inside City Hall, the field of District 3 candidates has begun to fill in.
Barry Lawton, who has run four ... Read more.
Boston Police have asked for the public's help to locate a Dorchester woman who they say has been missing since April 24.
In a posting on ... Read more.
The Santander Bank branch in Uphams Corner is set to close on July 20 and customers will be sent to the Fields Corner branch. The closure is part of the bank's consolidation plan.
Santander announced last week that ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by a company to lease a former Catholic school at 120-124 Babson St. for use as 14 affordable apartments for seniors ... Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to let Dorchester resident Yimi Lajara open Mofongo Factory Restaurant at 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester - and to ... Read more.
The Boston Little Saigon Cultural District’s Night Market (Cho Dem) event will be back again this year on Sat., July 15, after a very successful inaugural event in Fields Corner last summer. Festivities will take place ... Read more.
District 3 Councillor Frank Baker’s decision against running for reelection has opened up a seat in a recently reconfigured district that curves down from the Ink Block complex in the South End to Gallivan Boulevard in ... Read more.
In the Boston Public Library’s first in-person meeting since before the pandemic set in, BPL President David Leonard and Chris Genter, of Oudens Ello Architects, on Monday night presented the latest conceptual design for ... Read more.
The Loop— a new, 135-unit, mixed-use building next to Mattapan MBTA station— celebrated its grand opening on Tuesday morning with a ribbon cutting and speeches from dignitaries who had gathered to mark the milestone. ... Read more.
The Dorchester Baseball Little League kicked off its season last Saturday (April 22) with a parade through Savin Hill that ended at the brand-new Little League field in McConnell Park. More than 550 kids are part of ... Read more.
District 3 Councillor Frank Baker, who developed a reputation over six terms for delivering constituent services and sometimes clashing with mayors and his colleagues on the City Council, isn’t running for reelection. ... Read more.
The Trotter K-6 Elementary School playground on Humboldt Avenue has no shortage of open space, but the problem is there’s nothing happening there.
That will soon change, thanks to a $1 million Community Investment ... Read more.
A group of business leaders and residents in Fields Corner has called on the city to conduct a parking study that could lead to the first-ever parking meters on Dorchester Avenue. Much of the avenue’s path through the ... Read more.
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