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I have been actively engaged in the Dorchester community all my life – from participating in organizing park and field cleanups, block parties, and fundraisers to volunteering as a youth coach for basketball leagues at ... 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.
When I purchased my three-decker on Jones Hill in 1984, I didn’t give much thought to the fact that it wasn’t insulated or had knob and tube wiring. Built in 1916 on a classic granite foundation, it has served me and my ... Read more.
Fields Corner native Julio Salado earlier this month spent a week in Lviv, a war-damaged city in western Ukraine, working alongside other volunteers inside a kitchen preparing meals for Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the ... Read more.
Dorchester’s Epiphany School welcomed Bishop Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church USA and the first African American leader of the church, to its campus on April 14.
Bishop Curry, along with ... Read more.
The Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) welcomed Boston Globe columnist and editor Jeneé Osterheldt to its April meeting to talk on the theme of building resilience and community in Mattapan.
Osterheldt, a ... Read more.
New Englanders wait longer than most other Americans for flowers to bloom and the trees to bud in the spring, and maybe the wait makes that blooming much more glorious when it happens. People I know who have moved south ... Read more.
Ashmont Hill resident Michaela Flatley will be living her dream on May 7 when she opens The Local Hand Shop + Gallery in a retail space on the ground floor of the Carruth Building.
A credentialled, accomplished ... Read more.
One Boston Day took over Savin Hill last Friday (April 14) as scores of neighbors and members of the Columbia/Savin Hill Neighborhood Association joined volunteers from John Hancock to spruce up the neighborhood.
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The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board last Thursday awarded a tentative designation to a team that plans to redevelop the former Bank of America property at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Uphams Corner.
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The annual Little Miss Dorchester and Young Miss Dorchester contests will be held on Sat., May 13 at First Parish Dorchester on Meetinghouse Hill. The competitions are open to girls ages 7-9 and 10-12, respectively. The ... Read more.
The news last week that a 21-year-old man from southeastern Massachusetts has been charged with giving away top-secret US military documents is unsettling. The accused, a member of our own Massachusetts Air National Guard ... Read more.
Near the end of a campaign fundraiser ahead of Election Day in 2021, Michelle Wu turned to a topic that hadn’t drawn the same headlines as her support for a return to rent control and a “Green New Deal” to combat climate ... Read more.
A vacant industrial property on the banks of the Neponset River in Hyde Park will be the first target of a much bigger federal clean-up effort this month, according to US Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s office.
The old ... Read more.
After a hugely successful launch last year, the Ashmont-Adams section of Dorchester will host the second annual DorchFest on Sat., June 3. The Dot Day weekend festival will feature live performances on porches and front- ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal last Tuesday approved builder Neil Guilden’s plans to construct a three-decker with three parking spots on what has long been a vacant lot at 17 Longfellow St. in Dorchester.
Some nearby ... Read more.
Port Norfolk residents rallied to block state environmental officials from taking down a vacant brick building that overlooks the Neponset River, arguing that it has historical value as the former counting house of the ... Read more.
While the City Council was bickering yet again over the redrawing of political boundaries, an aide to Mayor Wu was busy launching his campaign for one of the four at-large slots.
Henry Santana, a Dorchester ... Read more.
There are more centenarians nowadays than ever before, we are told, and like Mattapan’s Anna Coleman, who turned 102 on April 10, they continue to amaze with their lived experiences, their active lifestyles, and their ... Read more.
On a sunny Saturday in mid-April, a white bus pulled into the parking lot of Mattapan’s Jubilee Christian Church off Blue Hill Avenue just north of the Square. “Next stop: Opportunity,” said a sign on the side of the bus ... Read more.
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