When Luis Perez Demorizi reports to his new job on Sept. 15, he’ll walk into his 527-acre office as Franklin Park’s first executive director.
The city’s Parks and Recreation Department has been without a full-time leader since Dorchester’s Ryan Woods left the post last year, and while the search for a permanent chief continues, a familiar face has stepped up to fill the interim role.
With the sound of the starter’s horn, 380 participants in the first-ever Mattapan Unity 5K were off and running on Saturday morning.
Achieving affordability and speed for new housing in Boston may not be as complicated as the wholesale reform of process that many are seeking, as some construction professionals believe that a simple re-thinking of the city’s long checklist of fees and deposits required of developers on projects large and small could result in major positive boost to housing production.
High-octane hoops drew hundreds to Harambee Park at Franklin Field last weekend for the 12th annual Crew Love basketball tournament, which this year featured a 10-team men’s competition, a women’s all-star game, and a heated neighborhood rivalry that has become a hallmark of the event, drawing crowds and notables like Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla.
The annual Crew Love basketball tournament in Harambee Park at Franklin Field takes place this weekend with help from Jaylen Brown’s 741 Performance company.
It was a day filled with “Yee haws,” “Howdys,” and line-dancing into the sunset at Rev. Loesch-Wainwright Park in Dorchester on Sunday afternoon with the 3rd Annual Ice Cream Social Rodeo event.
It’s time to sharpen those pencils: Dorchester’s Isaque ‘Brother Ike’ Rezende and radio and record-store legend Skippy White – who brought soul and rhythm & blues music to generations of Bostonians – are delivering music education classes with their radio show and podcast, “Soul School.”
It was just after 9:30 a.m. last on Thursday when Judge Jonathan Tynes entered the First Session courtroom of the Dorchester division of Boston Municipal Court as a bailiff instructed the three dozen or so people waiting on benches to rise.
A development team has purchased a former car wash on Hancock Street and is preparing to start construction on a residential building that will be a companion to The Meetinghouse project next door that it completed in 2020.
State Sen. Liz Miranda has added to the new energy on Blue Hill Avenue by opening a district office in Grove Hall. The storefront at 350 Blue Hill Ave. is not a campaign headquarters; it is meant to serve Second Suffolk constituents when they have official business to conduct.
The Codman Square NDC hosted the annual Caribbean Jerk Festival, with scores of residents taking in the best cuisine and music from the neighborhood.
The issue involved MassBiologics – an agency run by the University of Massachusetts’s Chan Medical School – and whether or not it will move ahead with plans to expand its existing campus on Walk Hill Street.
The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation hosted the annual Caribbean Jerk Festival on the lawn of the Second Church in Codman Square last Saturday with scores of residents taking in the best cuisine and music from the neighborhood.
The 15th annual Mattapan on Wheels bicycle rally celebrated a milestone on Saturday morning (July 26) before excited riders set out to usher in the use of the Neponset Greenway Extension for their roughly 20-mile ride from Mattapan to Castle Island.
