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Nearly 130 years after abolitionist, orator, and newspaper publisher Frederick Douglass addressed state lawmakers, the Senate unveiled a bust in the branch’s chamber honoring his legacy during a ceremony last week.
... Read more.Dancing instructor Michael Winward visits the Standish Village Lower Mills community regularly to teach dance through the Steps in Time program, which aims to spread joy through social dance by approaching dance as a ... Read more.
Darnell Billings, who has been a member of the METCO Board of Directors since 2017, is the group’s new board chairman. An associate broker at Keller Williams Realty Boston, Billings is a Boston native who was a METCO ... Read more.
The Crispus Attucks Children’s Center (CACC)in Dorchester’s Grove Hall has received a $50,000 grant from The Boston Foundation to provide early childhood education for children, including children of recent immigrants, ... Read more.
Feb. 7 marked National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and the Mattapan Community Health Center (MCHC) along with other community partners participated in a panel discussion held at the Spoke Art Center in downtown Boston, ... Read more.
BPDA will host two public meetings on the proposed “Article 80 Modernization” project, which city officials say will “improve the way the city reviews new development projects.” The first meeting is set ... Read more.
Boston City Council President Ruthzee Louijeuene has been appointed to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Local Government Advisory Committee, where she will be one of four members on the national committee ... Read more.
The early voting period runs from this Saturday (Feb. 24) to next Friday (March 1), and as long as you are registered to vote, you can return your ballot at any convenient ballot box.
If you miss the early voting ... Read more.
Leaders from 16 non-profit organizations that will split more than $352,000 in funds contributed by the owners of the Dot Block development gathered last week to highlight the grants, which were awarded through a process ... Read more.
The deadline to nominate a local small business for the city’s Legacy Business Program has been extended to this Friday (Feb. 23). This is the second year that the mayor’s Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion ( ... Read more.
Escalating her administration's response to a potential health care crisis, Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday suggested Steward Health Care transfer its Massachusetts hospitals— including Dorchester's Carney Hospital— to new ... Read more.
A proposal by St. Mary’s Center for Women and Children to expand their footprint on Jones Hill and offer new housing for low-income families won approval from the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) on Thursday ... Read more.
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board yesterday approved a revision to an already-approved project at 3 Aspinwall Rd. in Dorchester that will add 11 additional units and a fifth floor to the building. ... Read more.
Dorchester's Maura S. Doyle, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in Suffolk County, will not seek re-election this year, according to Doyle's office. Doyle, first elected 28 years ago, is currently the longest-serving ... Read more.
The annual Tet in Boston celebration put on by Dorchester’s Vietnamese American Community of Massachusetts (VACMA) brought a lively and packed event to the Cruiseport in South Boston on Feb. 4 to celebrate the Tet (Lunar ... Read more.
If there’s one thing outgoing cabinet chief Mariama White-Hammond hopes to complete before she leaves her post in April, it’s eliminating third-party electrical suppliers who are well known for going door-to-door using ... Read more.
Thamara Pierre-Louis has joined the Boston Parks and Recreation Department as its Community Outreach Coordinator. A native of Mattapan and an alumna of Codman Academy Charter Public School, she holds degrees from Bentley ... Read more.
Marie Etienne of Dorchester has retired as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) at The Boston Home, a role she has performed with loving care for 28 years. She is looking forward to spending more time in Haiti, her native ... Read more.
Mary Cahill, left, and her sister, Eileen Boyle, connected with Dot native Mark Wahlberg in Las Vegas last weekend prior to attending Sunday’s Super Bowl courtesy of the Patriots Foundation. The sisters — two of eight ... Read more.
RODE Architects, a Boston-based collaborative design and architecture firm, last week announced the promotions of five employees, including three from Dorchester, as the firm deepens its leadership team and diversifies ... Read more.
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