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The Boston Collegiate Charter School celebrated the completion of a $1.3 million expansion project during a ceremony on Tuesday of this week at its Mayhew Street campus. The lottery-based public charter serves grades 5-12 on two campuses, including the old St. Margaret school and convent. The school acquired a property next door at 21 Mayhew St., which now boasts new outdoor

Dozens of classic cars were on display at Dot Park’s Adams Street fields – everything from a 1946 Ford convertible to a 1950 Chevy truck (in red) to a 2012 Boss 302 speedster – as part of last Sunday’s 14th annual Dorchester Park Car Show. Hundreds of friends, neighbors and families came out to enjoy the day in the park’s “bowl,” complete with horse carriage rides, prior to a

When Denise O’Marde opened Café Juice Up on Blue Hill Avenue in 2019, it soon became a beacon for area residents who wanted to try something different, like healthy juices. Now, she and co-owner Dimitri Phanor are pioneering once again – they’re setting up an outdoor dining experience on the thoroughfare. To date, participants in the city’s outdoor dining program have been

The 2023 Boston Lights exhibit at Franklin Park Zoo, entitled ‘A Lantern Experience,’ opened on Aug. 4 and will run through Oct. 29 from 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Prior to the opening, on Aug. 2, community members from Dorchester and Mattapan were given the first look at this year’s exhibit, which Zoo officials said is their largest and most expansive to date. Here, Dorchester’s

At Bishop Nicolas Homicil’s Edgewater Drive church in Mattapan, the clocks on the wall don’t work. But time never stands still there, and neither does the 81-year-old Homicil. He could likely fit his programming into a 20-story building if it were possible, but as it is, he has a few one-story buildings, including a warehouse, where he and several dedicated volunteers provide

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

When Rose Dolin and her two sisters, Hans and Lynda, signed up for the one-year commitment to the Clemente Course in the Humanities at the Codman Square Neighborhood Health Center’s Adult Education program, they had no idea how many doors it would open to them intellectually. They thought they would simply be practicing English speaking and writing. While they did do that,