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Hundreds gathered at Walker Playground, also called Norfolk Park, in Mattapan on Thursday, June 30, to celebrate the official opening of the complete renovation of the park and the basketball courts. The renovations have been in the works and on the drawing board since 2018, but the official end of construction was celebrated Thursday during Mayor Michelle Wu’s Mattapan Coffee

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,

Hundreds of Boston Latin Academy (BLA) students walked out of classes on Tuesday this week as part of the Students Demand Action national protest day against gun violence. The action was led in part locally by two Dorchester sophomores. As the clock struck noon, hundreds of students poured out of BLA, located on Townsend Street in Roxbury, as part of the movement, but they

Hundreds of Boston Latin Academy (BLA) students walked out of classes on Tuesday this week as part of the Students Demand Action national protest day against gun violence. The action was led in part locally by two Dorchester sophomores. As the clock struck noon, hundreds of students poured out of BLA, located on Townsend Street in Roxbury, as part of the movement, but they

The Dorchester Day Parade on Sunday returned to the neighborhood’s main thoroughfare after a two-year hiatus. Aided by sunny skies and cool breezes, the parade drew crowds along the three-mile route on Dorchester Avenue. High school marching bands mixed with candidates for governor, including Maura Healey and Geoff Diehl, as well as Mayor Michelle Wu. Luigi “Lou” Pasquale, a

The Dorchester Vietnam Veterans Memorial community came together at midday on Monday to commemorate the 35th annual Memorial Day services and the 80 American service members from the neighborhood who lost their lives in the Vietnam War – a conflict that is being marked for its 50th anniversary this year. “We want to welcome you to the celebration of our 35th Memorial Day

There were tears of joy and simultaneous calls to action by community members last Friday as Gov. Baker and Cardinal Sean O’Malley joined Mattapan leaders at a groundbreaking event for Morton Station Village, a four-story building that will soon rise next to the Fairmount Line station on the former site of a Boston Police station. The project brings with it 40 units of

The housing crisis in Boston is often seen very clearly in the number of homeless individuals on the streets in various parts of the city, but the greater number of homeless – that being families and children – are mostly unseen, and help for them is less available and at a critical place, according to city officials. Last Thursday afternoon, Hildebrand, a 30-plus year-old

Brooke Charter School Mattapan 7th grader Emily Ramirez lives for sports and craves competition, but far too often urban middle and high school students like her often don’t have the same opportunities to get on a playing field that their suburban and private school counterparts do.

The world of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is a mysterious environment to many, but an increasingly certain future for all of us. City officials and a growing number of Boston residents are already living the life of noise-reduced rides and battery-charging stations. When Dorchester’s Pamela McGee began looking for a new vehicle this year, she “just figured” an EV “would be