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.
The Codman Square Health Center is planning to use a mobile van to serve new and existing patients who find it difficult to get to Codman or other health facilities. If things go well, appointments could be in play by next spring.
City on a Hill Charter School (CoaH), one of the first 14 charter schools in Massachusetts, graduated its final class of students last month, then closed its doors after 30 years as a learning place.
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) and the Uphams Corner Health Center broke ground last week on a senior citizen housing model in Grove Hall that will include health services accessible to both residents and patients.
There’s no need to go to Newbury Street when Blue Hill Avenue is just around the corner.
Overall crime is down by 5 percent so far this year on the Area C-11 police district that covers much of eastern Dorchester, according to the Boston Police Department, but larcenies are on the rise, many of them driven by a specific crime: shoplifting.
The 4th annual Night Market/Cho Đêm put on by Boston Little Saigon cultural district was another feather in the cap for Fields Corner and the neighborhood at-large with thousands gathering for food and entertainment in a showcase of Vietnamese American culture.
The Dot Block Diner opened for business this week, mixing a little of the old with the new in the neighborhood breakfast game and bringing the first ground-floor retail activity to the Dorchester Avenue complex that began to house hundreds of residents in 2023.
Calling for local sports fans and investors to target the Connecticut Sun, a Boston City Council member says his “very excited” colleagues will “absolutely” approve his resolution Wednesday to support the presence of a professional women’s basketball team
