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The Mildred Avenue Senior Citizen drop-in program hailed all the fathers that come to the center, as well as their significant others, in celebrating Father’s Day last Thursday (June 22). While the women participants enjoyed a meal together in the dining room, the men were treated to a private “Man Cave” with shrimp and grits, sandwiches, snacks, comfortable couches, and a

A new bird-themed mural now dominates the side of a building at 1487 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner. The “Fly, Like You” artwork was created by the street artist “Rixy,” a Roxbury native and UMass Boston graduate who displayed her first-ever mural at the same location five years ago. “Back then, that was the first time I’d been on a lift or painted 10-feet up in the air,”

Mayor Michelle Wu wants her administration to combat violence in Dorchester and Mattapan by drilling down to individual blocks and using crime data to target the most heavily impacted areas. In a recent interview with the Reporter, Wu said the strategy needs to be an intense, year-round effort focused on pockets of the neighborhoods that account for an overwhelming number of

More than 100 people gathered at Dorchester’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Monday morning to recite the names of 80 service members from Dorchester who lost their lives in service to their country during the war in Vietnam. Ed Pimental, who served as master of ceremonies, noted it was the 36th annual Memorial Day event at the Morrissey Boulevard memorial since it was dedicated

The old bricks, thriving weeds, and peeling paint on the side of an auto body shop near the former home of the ‘Bubble’ community center in Grove Hall for a long time conveyed an unfortunate message about that stretch of Geneva Avenue: blight and neglect. But that was before Jeremy Harrison – who paints under the name ‘Sobek’ – and his crew of artists, known as the Flava Unit

A few years ago, when the city approached neighbors in the Edgewater Drive area of Mattapan to ask if they would want to build out a food forest on a landlocked city-owned vacant lot in their neighborhood, the residents’ first question was critical: What, exactly, is a food forest”? According to the Boston Food Forest Coalition (BFFC), a food forest involves a coalition of

City Councillor Ruthzee Louijeune hosted a breakfast with support of Haitian Americans United (HAU), the group that organized the previous Sunday’s Haitian Unity Parade on Blue Hill Avenue, last Thursday (May 18) as the city’s Haitian Americans celebrated their ancestry and called for more help for the Caribbean nation during events held to commemorate Haitian Flag Day at

Cutting the ribbon on a new cannabis dispensary or getting state approvals for marketing marijuana can seem like a normal course of business these days in Boston. But for a number of Dorchester operatives, the possession of permits represents years of navigating steep learning curves. After five years of meetings, cobbling together financing, and completing an endless number

Mayor Michelle Wu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Reporter in her City Hall office this week as she prepares to launch a multi-week tour of neighborhood parks, beginning in Fields Corner’s Town Field on Fri., May 12, at 10 a.m. The Reporter will publish a series of articles based on our conversation with her. We begin with her thoughts on safety concerns in the

As Tiffany Williams put the finishing touches on her planting of a tree in Dorchester’s Dr. Loesch Family Park on Wainwright Street last Friday, it was an exercise in celebrating a new life, and remembering one lost. For her, adding a tree in the park was about creating a living memorial to her mother, Jacqualine Williams, a Dorchester woman who was one of many who died during