
In the shadow of the National Grid rainbow tank, state and city officials gathered Wednesday morning to cut a ceremonial ribbon at the most recent section of the Neponset Greenway trail to open.

Legendary Coach Paul O’Malley threw out the ceremonial first pitch of the year during opening ceremonies of Dorchester Baseball on Saturday in McConnell Park. Seth Daniel photo

Marabou Cafe co-owner Paulette Firmin: “It’s not just a place for Haitians to eat, but every ethnicity and age group. We need other communities to learn about it.”

A team of workers led by City Archaeologist Joe Bagley spent two days last week digging for traces of Native American artifacts at a River Street parcel that is slated to become an urban farm.

VietAid’s second large affordable housing project on Bowdoin Street will receive $3.3 million in city funding to move forward, Boston housing officials and Mayor Wu announced last week.

A gathering at the Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) on Fri., April 10, night that was billed as community meeting was actually a surprise party to salute the center’s director Rick Aggeler on his 20th year of work anniversary.

Features of a $1.4 million renovation of Toohig Park, including a new basketball court, new playground equipment, an improved entrance, and new softball dugouts – among other upgrades.

A new mural dedicated to Ruth Batson was dedicated outside the Dorchester school that now bears her name.

Mormon semi-truck donation helps stock
Brett Pantry in Dorchester.

A 3-year, $21 million state highway project to repair a key stretch of the I-93 expressway near Columbia-Savin Hill that is scheduled to start soon will be disruptive at times.

Naamah Brown decided to create a safe play space for her son Jason and other kids on the autism spectrum.

Every student got a hat and students and educators were surprised with two tickets to an upcoming home game.

An oral history project that focuses on stories from a wide range of Dorchester community members from teenagers to elders who left Vietnam in the 1970s has been turned into a 90-minute documentary that producers hope to screen publicly this summer.

A March 31 huddle between the city’s public safety leaders and neighborhood activists in Dorchester offered up a sometimes harsh critique of how the Wu administration is funding and deploying street-level resources to thwart violence.

The Supreme Judicial Court peppered lawyers for the city of Boston and plaintiffs suing over the White Stadium project with questions in a hearing this morning.