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Educators at Codman Academy Charter Public School announced recently that they are organizing a union with the Boston Teachers Union (BTU). The new entity will include more than 60 staff at the school and is the second ... Read more.
Although the skies weren’t sunny last Saturday (May 18), the 44th annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale was a bright spot for deals and bargains on good stuff – as well as some neighbor-to-neighbor bartering. The event brings ... Read more.
Last Monday (May 20) at the end of the school day, 32 students gathered in Cristo Rey Boston’s gymnasium to announce their colleges of choice before the school’s annual Decision Day parade.
Cheers and applause ... Read more.
A small fire on Tuesday (May 14) has sparked the temporary closing of Dependable Cleaners and Laundromat at 1141 Dorchester Ave. in Savin Hill.
The fire, which took place above the laundromat but away from the dry- ... Read more.
After more than 20 years at Dorchester’s Richard J. Murphy K-8 School – 10 of those years as the school leader – Courtney Sheppeck announced this week she will be leaving to take a new position as principal of the ... Read more.
Dot Art, the non-profit organization that has provided arts education to Dorchester’s children for 25 years, has hired a new executive director in the person of Deniz Ozturk, a veteran nonprofit leader and development ... Read more.
The UP Academy network of Dorchester schools held its first-ever fundraising gala, Shine Dorchester, on Thurs., May 2, at the Southline Boston building on Morrissey Boulevard.
UP Academy is an in-district Boston ... Read more.
On Sunday mornings, congregants at Total Health Christian Ministry meet for early worship in the fellowship hall of the Parkway United Methodist Church in Mattapan. They enter the hall, filling in the two columns of 120 ... Read more.
Haitian Americans will gather in the shadows of the Zakim Bridge next to TD Garden next Monday (May 20) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a kickoff ceremony for the new cultural center named for Haiti’s revolutionary hero, ... Read more.
For those of us with ties to Haiti, the month of May is a time of celebration and solemn reflection. Here in Dorchester and Mattapan, that includes a parade on Blue Hill Avenue and the after-parties and barbeques that ... Read more.
The Mildred Avenue Seniors went all out for mothers on Thurs., May 9, ahead of Mother’s Day with a celebration of the many mothers at the center and their talents. More than 100 showed up for the special day and the ... Read more.
Mayor Wu’s Coffee Hour series returned to Walker Playground on Wed., May 1. Though a bit raw weatherwise, neighbors came out to get their potted plants and chat with the mayor and other city officials.
“Our job as ... Read more.
Keren Cezar was out having dinner with friends in Boston last month when she got a terrifying call from Haiti. Her mother was on the phone in a panic: Local gangsters were rampaging close to her home and had burned down a ... Read more.
The Open Streets Dorchester festival took over Dorchester Avenue last Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – blocking off traffic and allowing for a safe walking and biking environment to a thoroughfare usually dominated by ... Read more.
Almost half a century after the start of desegregation in the Boston Public Schools, City Council President Ruthzee Louijeune could point to a model of inclusive learning in Mattapan, at the Mattahunt Elementary School. ... Read more.
Haitian American Heritage Month is in full swing this week with a series of events upcoming, highlighted by Sunday’s annual Unity Parade on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan and Dorchester.
The 22nd annual parade kicks ... Read more.
As retail drug store chains in and around Dorchester close, Uphams Community Care has become the latest community health center to step up and bridge the growing gap of prescriptions services. Last Tuesday (May 7 , the ... Read more.
There’s a lot to like in the Healey/Driscoll administration’s Mass Leads Act, but I write today to draw attention to one piece in particular – the providing of $150 million for the Massachusetts Public Library ... Read more.
Massachusetts is ranked tenth in the nation for total installed solar capacity, boasting enough solar to power more than 900,000 homes. Yet, beneath this statistic lies a disconcerting truth: Solar energy may be ... Read more.
The Fairmount Line traverses neighborhoods where over 60 percent of Black Bostonians reside. Despite this, the line has suffered from chronic underinvestment, leaving communities along its route in dire need of faster, ... Read more.
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