The Dorchester Day Parade Committee held a new fundraising event last Saturday (March 23) at the Murphy School cafeteria with ice cream sundaes and a visit from the Easter Bunny. Committee co-chairs Kelly Walsh and Brianne Gore said they were very excited at the turnout as hundreds of young people came out to feast on Lazy Bear ice cream and dance with the Easter Bunny. They
In 2017, 15-year-old Dorchester pals Aidan Devlin and Thomas Donahue, who liked to play what they call “arena football” in the street hockey court at Garvey Park in Neponset, organized the first Neponset Bowl, a youth-led flag football tournament, as a way to raise money for neighborhood families experiencing hardships.
It takes no small amount of mettle as a family to survive the rigors of a child going through cancer treatments, but it’s a whole other kind of resolve to also have a parent diagnosed and treated for cancer at the same time. That’s exactly what Dorchester’s Olsen family has been going through over the past five months – with their youngest son and standout hockey goalie,
Life often has a way of throwing up roadblocks in the strangest places and at the most unexpected times. It’s something that 13-year-old Conor Olsen and his parents, Deb and Phil, experienced in late February. For the past two years, they have traveled from Dorchester to Foxborough weekly for goalie skills practice, but this time was different. “We were on our way to hockey,