The Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 Innovation School held its annual Science Fair in the gym of the Dorchester school last Wednesday (March 11).
More than 3,000 eggs full of candy have been prepared for placement for Sunday’s (March 22) Easter Egg Hunt at Savin Hill Park.
City officials received a tough critique last week from neighbors wary about the latest White Stadium gameday transportation plan to accommodate the Boston Legacy women’s professional soccer team starting in 2027.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, was living in Dorchester until his arrest last year. He died earlier this month in Arizona where he was being detained by ICE. Family photo
The Boston Bridge Brigade sets up on the Savin Hill bridge with anti-war messaging that they say is resonating with the drivers passing-by on the southeast expressway.
The 17th annual event brought one of the largest crowds in its history to the St. Margaret’s Church basement for a breakfast to raise money for the year-round food pantry, which is named for the late mother of the event’s organizer, Jim Brett.
A plan to build a three-family house at 42-44 Granger St. in Fields Corner was the key item before the membership of the Fields Corner Civic Association (FCCA) on March 3. Architect Ethan Rittershaus was on hand to present revised plans on behalf of property owner Cindy Lam.
A Boston Police investigation is underway following the death of a man in his 60s who was found unresponsive inside a newly renovated former hotel on Morrissey Boulevard that now houses formerly homeless individuals.
A federal funding bill that ended last year’s US government shutdown also unlocked funding for a long-awaited Blue Hill Avenue improvement project that will include center-running bus lanes.
A New Jersey company hopes to build a 145,000 sq. ft. self-storage facility in an industrial park near Fields Corner in Dorchester.
OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center’s comprehensive look at Black history in the multi-faceted production “Our Story” wa staged at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre last week.
The work – part dance, spoken word, and music – was performed twice at The Strand Theatre in Uphams Corner last Friday (Feb. 27), the final day of Black History Month.
The long-delayed second phase of the Dot Block development – an all-affordable 84-unit apartment building that will rise five stories above Hancock Street– has received key state subsidies that should clear a path for construction to start this year.
A seven-story, 108-unit residential apartment building would replace what is now an auto body shop in a largely industrial zone near Fields Corner under a plan filed earlier this week by a Quincy-based LLC controlled by Colman Grealish.
Dorchester photographer Mike Ritter has embarked on a new project called ‘Who Are We?,’ a patchwork presentation of more than 200 portraits that he will put together to form a large American flag. Seth Daniel photo
Indoor track season is wrapping up at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury, but for new executive director Richard Ward, his race has just begun.
