Next weekend promises to be a busy and fun-packed one in the neighborhood. Our June 1 edition will have a full rundown on all of the activities, including a preview of the annual Dot Day Parade, which starts at 1 p.m. on Sun., June 4. The parade has its roots in celebrations that go back to the turn of the 20th century and it has always been the highlight of what we consider
“Open Streets,” last year’s event that temporarily shut down Dorchester Avenue to traffic and opened it up to pedestrians, is scheduled to return on Sun., Sept. 17. The shutdown will stretch a little over a mile between Fields Corner and Ashmont. City Hall officials have shortened the length from last year’s extent, which ran from Dot Ave. at Freeport Street to Gallivan
Frank O’Brien, a Neponset native who documented the highs and lows of the local sports scene for the Boston Globe for more than 40 years, died on March 29 – his birthday at age 82. He was buried out of St. Ann’s on Monday after a jam-packed wake in Milton drew bold-faced names from the world of journalism and hundreds of his neighbors past and present from the slopes of
Dorchester resident, an architect at the Dorchester-based firm RODE, is Boston Architectural College’s latest recipient of the Boston Society of Architecture Award for Excellence in Teaching. Originally from Rhode Island, DelleFave, attended Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston and worked in New York City and Baltimore before moving back to Boston with his wife soon