Forum at JustBook-ish to examine redlining, blockbusting in Dorchester
September 1, 2026
A forum exploring the history of redlining and blockbusting in Dorchester and Mattapan — and the neighborhood organizing that pushed back against those practices — will be held on Wed., Sept. 9, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at JustBook-ish, 1463
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved Hung Nguyen’s plans to open Tach Coffee at 1411 Dorchester Ave. at Greenwich Street in Fields Corner.
Polls across Boston will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday approved Hung Nguyen’s plans to open Tach Coffee at 1411 Dorchester Ave. at Greenwich Street in Fields Corner.
In 1976, seven-year-old Michael Platt of Mattapan watched awe-struck as the huge ships and aircraft passed by in Boston Harbor. This week, as an admiral for the US Coast Guard, he led the Eagle into Boston for Sail Boston 2026.
Our Journeys: A Traveling Exhibition” is being hosted in a side gallery at the new Modern Party Art store (which opened on July 15) at 1524 Dorchester Ave near Park Street.
Registration set for Aug. 3
The free event, running from this Friday (July 10) through July 16, is expected to draw more than one million visitors as more than 60 vessels representing more than 20 countries enter the harbor for a week of public ship tours, waterfront festivities, fireworks, and cultural events.
The Rev. Trey Garland, the 14th rector of the Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, is a travelin’ man.
Even though it has already upheld Javaine Watson’s first-degree murder conviction for the murder of Romeo McCubbin on Havelock Street in Dorchester in 2013, the Supreme Judicial Court today gave him and his lawyer permission to have “forensic testing” done of several phones seized after the murder in an attempt to make his case that he had nothing to do with the murder and that he was framed by one of the other three men who were also convicted – and that guy’s allegedly lying girlfriend.
Marcus McNeill, a 22-year-old Fields Corner native, is a key go-between for residents and City Hall services.
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