The Relay: We’ve reached the finish line
Seven months after Boston beat out three other US cities in its quest to host the Olympic Games, things ended abruptly on Monday–a frenzied morning press conference, a couple hours of waiting until, unceremoniously, a joint press release cut the cord and let us go.
IT’S A SIGN: 2024’s Boston campaign gains traction in Dot
They’re appearing up and down Dorchester Avenue, the backbone of Boston’s largest neighborhood, and beginning to dot store fronts in businesses across the city.
You can spot one in the front window of Thuy’s Beauty Salon in Fields Corner, and another in the window of The Sugar Bowl in the Polish Triangle.
Outdoor art project planned at Mather School
Mather School
Compelling problems + achievable solutions = positive change.
There are dozens of complicated and controversial public policy issues on the agenda for action at City Hall, the State House and in the US Congress that won’t be resolved for months or years or maybe never. Most of these directly affect Dorchester residents and the quality of their lives.
Meanwhile, local resident activists and civic organizations are finding ways to address the same issues and find often temporary stop-gap first-step practical solutions for their children, their families, and their neighbors — in their own neighborhoods.
Building’s facade falls onto sidewalk in Codman Square
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Take a virtual tour of the Fields Corner Business Lab
Now you can tour the state-of-the art Fields Corner Business Lab without ever having to leave your desk.
Fireworks in June
“Look out into the July night, and see
the broad belt of silver flame which flashes
up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as
the bonfires of the meadow-flies.”
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man stabbed to death on Washington Street
The Boston
Cape Verdean attorney launching candidacy for Henriquez seat
An attorney with roots in Cape Verde is jumping into the race to replace former state Rep. Carlos Henriquez. Evandro Carvalho, who lives in Fields Corner with his fiancé Ashley, emigrated from Cape Verde at age 15.
Reporter’s Notebook | Walsh mulls appointments: ‘Trying to see what works’
On the morning after Mayor Thomas Menino’s first State of the City address in January 1994, an analysis in the Globe said, “Although the new mayor coasted through the holiday season on a surfeit of good will, his administration never got out of first gear.” The report noted that he hadn’t replaced any department heads who had served under Ray Flynn and that he is “still heavily dependent upon Flynn holdovers in critical staffing roles.”