Ann M. Walsh, a former head of an education nonprofit who worked for City Councillor At-Large John Connolly, on Thursday became the latest candidate to join the field of District 3 candidates running to succeed outgoing Councillor Frank Baker. Walsh, a 51-year-old Lower Mills resident, first worked as Connolly’s policy director and then his chief of staff. After Connolly’s
You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline. Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus-Citizen. The year was 1983, and the insert’s red-white-and-black cover saluted a high point of the preceding twelve months with a lead photo of President Ronald Reagan
Big Sister Boston will be participating in Sunday’s Dorchester Day Parade. The girl-serving organization will feature a trolley “float” filled with Big and Little Sisters and staff and a table with activities along the parade route. Big Sister President and CEO Annissa Essaibi George will be commentating the parade alongside WBZ-TV’s Courtney Cole. “I’m excited that Big Sister
What started as a way to help kids connect to their culture during recess has become baton twirling and dancing journey for Estrella Tropicales dance team, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year while also marching yet again as a decade-long participant in the Dorchester Day Parade. Franklin Field’s Joselina ‘Jossie’ Leon, 58, said the Estrella Tropicales (which means