Mccormack Middle News Today

When current high school seniors at the Boston Community Leadership Academy (BCLA) were recruited years ago for the new BCLA-McCormack 7-12 School on Columbia Point – they were promised that they would move onto a fully renovated Dorchester campus from Hyde Park and graduate from the merged school community this year. Those dreams were shot this week for those seniors and for

The year in crime and public safety was one of major leadership changes from the US Attorney for Massachusetts to the Boston Police and Fire departments. It was also a year of heartbreak in neighborhoods where murders by gun and assaults took a heavy toll. Following is a look back at it all, beginning in January: •As DA Rachael Rollins prepared to leave her post in January for

Last week, the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s board of directors approved a plan to build a new $50 million fieldhouse in Dorchester’s Columbia Point neighborhood. The vote was unanimous, and for good reason: This project, once completed, will be a game-changer for the kids in our city who deserve the sort of state-of-the-art, indoor facility that will be built along

As more and more people get vaccinated, the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths are finally declining. We know this pandemic won’t last forever. But — what happens next? Do we just pick up where we left off in March 2020? Or have things changed in a fundamental way? We asked 10 people to imagine life after the pandemic. (Dan Nott for WBUR) What will work look like after COVID? What about parenting? Friendship? Faith? Will our understanding of public health change, as epidemiologists ra...