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The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the owner of the parking lot at 372 Neponset Ave. in Dorchester to replace it with a four-story, ten-unit apartment building with 13 parking spaces.
A vintage green vase, a purple leather jacket from the ‘80s, and a handmade violin from the 1900s are just a few of the items that artist Shayna Engelbrecht will offer customers when her thrift shop, Blue Orchard, opens next month at 659 Gallivan Blvd.
YouthConnect, a non-profit focused on youth mental health and violence prevention, has named Keyla Jackson, a Dorchester resident who serves as interim executive director of Facilities Management at Boston Public Schools (BPS), to its board of directors.
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.