

Bethel Tabernacle Pentecostal Church celebrated the completion of a 20-year mission to convert the former St. Leo’s campus into its own expansive service center and worship space.

The annual Neponset Day festival on the banks of the Neponset River last Saturday morning and afternoon at the Neponset II Park on Hill Top Street brought out a large gathering to enjoy a great summer day.

The free, family-friendly festival will feature canoeing and kayaking on the Neponset River, along with food trucks, live music, children’s activities, environmental exhibits, and other attractions.

Award-winning independent film producer Phil Keefe of Dorchester is a key part of the success of “Cotton Fever,” a feature film that recently won top honors at New York City’s legendary Tribeca Film Festival.

Veteran Boston newspaper and TV journalist Chris Lovett connects the dots of a raging debate about American identity with a Dorchester lens from the pre-Civil War resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act through present-day.

Tom McKenna and Mary Dyer will host a Meet & Greet on Thursday, July 30, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Eire Pub, where attendees can meet both writers, purchase signed copies of their books, and reminisce about the neighborhood that inspired their work.