The annual Hidden Heroes and Sheroes Celebration will be held on Sat., Nov. 21, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Southline Boston in Dorchester.
Dorchester’s Dr. Lianne Hughes-Odom, the principal at Dorchester’s Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 Innovation School, will be honored by the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation on Wed., Oct. 21 at an event in Kensington, NH, where she will receive the Harriet R. Lewis Gutsy Young Leader award for her work at the school.
It’s the beginning of a new school year, and I’m thinking back to the summer of 2017. I had walked into a brand new school, grade, and community. Upon entering my classroom, I was handed three texts and told, “These are the books we read, just connect them to the standards. You gotta sink or swim.”
This week’s pathetic assault on the First Amendment and press freedoms suggests that this president and his aides know that a reckoning is coming in November.
Fields Corner native Julio Salada, who regularly visits Ukraine to provide humanitarian relief, shares his thoughts on what the people of that war-torn country are experiencing.
John McColgan says a hotel project on East Cottage Street, “apart from physical harm to the neighborhood, will also yield ruinous loss to Dorchester’s long, complex history.”
Runners and walkers alike will gather at Franklin Park Playstead in November for the third annual EmpowerHer 5K, a community-focused race celebrating movement and wellness.
If Angel Monét Ledbetter-Glaude can’t say it with music, her puppets will fill in the gaps. Monét, 58, and her son, Dominic, 26, are just hitting their stride with two puppets named ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Boogie’ coming off their fourth successful House of Inspiration (HOI) Family Music and Arts Festival in Almont Park this summer.
Mayor Michelle Wu visited UMass Boston’s Dorchester campus on Monday to launch a partnership between the school’s Urban Public Health Department and the city’s Public Health Commission (BPHC) that is aimed at improving the health and well-being of all Boston residents— particularly its teenagers.
Critics of the plan as its stands argue that city and state officials have overstated the number of customers who would benefit from the faster commutes.
Darrin Howell, a long-time labor leader, is journeying through the pardon process for a conviction he had 23 years ago that continues to affect his life.
Blue Hill Avenue needs investment. But improvements must center residents and their quality-of-life during construction, says Mattapan’s Chad Fletcher.
The meeting, scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m., will include a presentation by the development team followed by questions and comments from the public.
Members of the West of Washington (WOW) neighborhood association gathered with city officials last Saturday (Sept. 19) to break ground on a new public park, marking the culmination of a community-led effort that began a decade ago.
Joan Elaine Tighe died peacefully on Sunday, August 9th, 2026 at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Roslindale, MA. Joan was born in New York City to the late Charles Tighe and Natalie (Newbery) Tighe. Joan attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls school in Manhattan, attained a bachelor’s degree at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, and two masters degrees, one in Theology and Social Change at Goddard Cambridge Graduate School and the other at Boston University School of Social Work. She was a member and leader at Church of the Covenant in Boston since 1973. After college, Joan lived in Boston’s South End before moving to her home in Dorchester.
