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The 5th annual Deatrich Wise Block Party took place last Saturday (Oct. 5) with Hazelton Street blocked off and the Josh Kraft Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) playing host to what has become a popular fall event in the ...
New name, logo – it’s Dot House Health | Dorchester Reporter
Apr 30, 2015 · DotHouse Health celebrated the official dedication of its new name and logo with a ribbon cutting event on Tuesday that featured former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy as the keynote speaker. Formerly known as the Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, the health center has long been dubbed the “DotHouse” and the new identity— rolled out last fall— seeks to embrace that and
Baby, woman shot in Franklin Field development
Sep 17, 2024 · A woman and a badly injured baby were taken to separate local hospitals after being shot on Stratton Street in Dorchester about 20 minutes before midnight on Monday, Boston Police said, noting that the baby had sustained life-threatening injuries. The violence took place outside 81 Stratton Street near the intersection of Ames Way in …
Lit Drop | A changing of the guard, and a name with deep roots in ...
Feb 14, 2023 · In 1976, South Boston’s Michael Joseph Donovan won a nine-way Democratic primary for the down-ballot job of Suffolk Superior Court Clerk for Civil Business. He was the youngest person ever elected to the position, and over the next forty-six years and eight elections, he faced few opponents. But Donovan has quietly retired from the job, which paid $164,000 in 2022, and since
Morrissey planners eye new roads, parkway U-turns, and signals
Aug 14, 2024 · Above, a rendering shows a view looking south along Morrissey Blvd. and a potential new traffic signal at Victory Road. Below, a slide from a MassDOT images. The signalized intersection is about one-quarter of a mile from K-Circle and would slow down traffic and remove the service roads that now parallel along the boulevard.
New principal takes helm at Henderson School; means to ‘protect ...
Sep 18, 2024 · This fall, with the hiring of Dr. Lori Wiggins, the Henderson Inclusion School joined the list of many Boston Public Schools welcoming a new school leader for the 2024-2025 academic year. A native of Mystic, Connecticut, Wiggins has more than 20 years of experience as an educator and school leader. While most of her career has …
Parks chief Ryan Woods leaving Wu administration; 24 years with …
Sep 25, 2024 · Seth Daniel photo. At the age of 16, Ryan Woods, working his first day for the Boston Parks Department, picked up a baseball and began teaching kids in Dorchester how to throw and catch it. Next month, he will leave the agency, having over 24 years climbed to the top of the organizational ladder as the youngest Parks Commissioner ever appointed.
Huge crowd cheers as new firehouse opens on Meetinghouse Hill
Sep 27, 2024 · Meetinghouse Hill is only the second firehouse built in Boston in the last 40 years, the other being in Egleston Square in 2021. The city hasn’t determined yet what it will do with the former firehouse on Parish Street, which opened in 1928. Memories of a century of heroism and sacrifice fluttered throughout Meetinghouse Hill today as a large ...
Memorial to Vietnamese diaspora eyed for Town Field site; early …
Sep 18, 2024 · Organizers who are planning an ambitious new memorial to honor the Vietnamese diaspora living in Dorchester unveiled a preliminary design during a Saturday event that drew about 150 people to the Vietnamese American Community Center on Charles Street. Led by artist and community organizer Ngoc-Tran Vu, the 1975 ac initiative hopes to create a permanent installation in Town
Editorial— Once again, GOP slander is meant to dehumanize …
Sep 16, 2024 · By Bill Forry and Linda Dorcena Forry. September 16, 2024. Pastor Nicolas Homicil, the bishop at Mattapan’s Voice of the Gospel Tabernacle: “All of us feel terribly hurt,” he told The Reporter. Seth Daniel photo. Once again, and very likely not for the last time, Haitians find themselves in the crosshairs of the Republican propaganda ...