The 40th annual National Night Out celebration of anti-crime efforts in the neighborhoods took place last week via a traveling caravan to most every neighborhood and police district. On Monday, July 31, the B-3 (Dorchester and Mattapan) district held its event in Hunt-Almont Park with live music from Conscious Reggae and free food prepared by the NECAT program and ice cream
The annual Neponset Day festival went off without a hitch on a crisp, blue-sky morning and afternoon at Pope John Paul II Park last Sunday. Hundreds of friends, families, neighbors, and Neponset River advocates flooded the park with positivity, eating lunch from the food trucks and ice cream vendors, then taking a paddle along the rolling river. The park has a dock and canoe
Between breakaway dunks, stifling defense, and colorful play-by-play narration, there is a grass-roots effort underway this summer at Ronan Park by key adults and organizations to “take the park back.” When they say “back,” leaders said they don’t just mean to take ownership back, but also to take it back to its heyday, when hundreds of high school aged boys and girls gathered
When Jeremy Colon and Kathy Le started Revamp Training studio in the St. Mark’s area in 2020, they were grateful for their 600-square-foot gym. But gradually they have outgrown the space and routinely found it hard to get people – whether landlords or financiers –to take their expansion plans seriously. That all changed this week for Revamp and six other Dorchester and