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A workforce training center that hopes to prepare people of color for careers in the Commonwealth’s bio-tech sector celebrated the opening of a new, 4,000-square-foot space on Thursday inside Southline Boston, the former Boston Globe building on Dorchester’s Morrissey Boulevard owned by Beacon Capital Partners. Bioversity takes direct aim at recruiting men and women of color,

The Mildred Avenue Senior Citizens group had a lively Christmas breakfast and lunch party at the community center on Dec. 19 – with more than a little dancing and singing mixed in as well. The seniors started their day-program at the Mildred Avenue Community Center last February. It has become wildly popular with scores attending every Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1:30

With six adult-use, recreational cannabis stores now open in Dorchester and Mattapan, and several more expected to come online in 2024, local retailers are getting a better feel for the day-to-day challenges of the evolving industry and its real-world issues – tax reform, pricing, and oversaturation. Retail locations are now open on Bowdoin Street, Freeport Street, Washington

Juan Carlos Santana originally came through the doors of Uphams Community Care to try to better understand health insurance and the Massachusetts Health Connector. Now, he shows up every day to help others figure out that same conundrum – but now as a certified Health Connector navigator at Uphams. And over the next few days, as an extraordinarily busy open enrollment period

The Dorchester Elite Eagles U14 Pop Warner football team and the Boston Lady Raiders Bantam cheer team celebrated in awesome fashion Saturday afternoon as they rode up front in the neighborhood’s first-ever national title parade along Talbot Avenue, and later participated in an energizing ceremony at the Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club. The Eagles won the Division 1 Super Bowl on

New street sign on Woodrow Ave. honors his legacy Of all places, a military posting on the outskirts of London during the late 1950s was where the late Bishop Hurshel Langham found his calling to preach the gospel and live out a life in the ministry. That turn of life eventually led him to Dorchester’s Woodrow Avenue, where he would lead the Faithful Church of Christ family

The All Dorchester Sports & Leadership (ADSL) organization was formed 40 years ago to use athletic competition to help combat the youth violence and truancy that was plaguing the neighborhood from one side to the other. Since then, ADSL has not strayed from its mission of keeping youth pointed in a positive direction, said Executive Director Candice Gartley during ADSL’s 40th

Dorchester’s TechBoston Academy indoor track team began rigorous practices last week, but the athletes won’t set foot on a real track until their first winter meet, this despite the existence of a world-class indoor track in the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury that is supposed to have practice periods set aside for Boston Public School (BPS) student-athletes that are not

Six community members and organizations were honored at the annual Codman Square and Four Corners ‘Hidden Heroes and Sheroes’ gala on Nov. 17 in the Great Hall, with five teens from the neighborhood receiving $2,000 scholarships as well. The annual gala has been ongoing for more than 25 years and is meant to honor those in the two communities that are doing incredible work

VietAID in Fields Corner held a ribbon cutting last Friday (Nov. 17) for their completely renovated and expanded outdoor play space. The Au Co Preschool is the state’s only bi-lingual, bi-cultural Vietnamese early education facility. The improved facility, which is situated behind the VietAID building on Charles Street, serves several preschool classrooms. The renovations were