Residents interested in the future of the Neponset River Estuary and what rising seas could mean for communities along its shores can learn more about new research at a free presentation to be hosted next week by the Neponset River Watershed Association.
Leaders from The BASE, Sportsmen’s Tennis and Enrichment Center, and All Dorchester Sports and Leadership talk about their Change the Game Coalition.
From traditional public meetings with hundreds in attendance to one-on-one sidewalk encounters meant to engage regular bus riders, there has been a whole lot of outreach since 2022— much of it documented by MBTA and city of Boston reports and in the pages of The Reporter and other media outlets.
Three local lawmakers discuss their positions on whether or not a major overhaul of Blue Hill Avenue should move forward and how.
In 1976, seven-year-old Michael Platt of Mattapan watched awe-struck as the huge ships and aircraft passed by in Boston Harbor. This week, as an admiral for the US Coast Guard, he led the Eagle into Boston for Sail Boston 2026.
Our Journeys: A Traveling Exhibition” is being hosted in a side gallery at the new Modern Party Art store (which opened on July 15) at 1524 Dorchester Ave near Park Street.
Registration set for Aug. 3
The free event, running from this Friday (July 10) through July 16, is expected to draw more than one million visitors as more than 60 vessels representing more than 20 countries enter the harbor for a week of public ship tours, waterfront festivities, fireworks, and cultural events.
The Rev. Trey Garland, the 14th rector of the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, is a travelin’ man.
Even though it has already upheld Javaine Watson’s first-degree murder conviction for the murder of Romeo McCubbin on Havelock Street in Dorchester in 2013, the Supreme Judicial Court today gave him and his lawyer permission to have “forensic testing” done of several phones seized after the murder in an attempt to make his case that he had nothing to do with the murder and that he was framed by one of the other three men who were also convicted – and that guy’s allegedly lying girlfriend.
Fields Corner is set to turn into a bustling open-air street festival again this month as Boston Little Saigon hosts its annual Night Market/Chợ Đêm on Saturday, July 18, from 4 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Conservatory Lab Charter School (CLCS) graduated 23 students from eighth grade on Mon., June 22, with state Rep. Chynah Tyler serving as the keynote speaker.
State official say they hope the project will also restore the facility as a ‘resource’ for the Dorchester community.
How is it that the Fairmount Line has become somewhat of a non-factor in the ongoing discussion about transit equity in Boston’s neighborhoods?
