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Hundreds of families, friends, and teammates of Thomas Lucas, 12, came out last Wednesday night at the Devine Rink for a fundraiser to support him and the Lucas family as the young man battles through treatments for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Thomas’s parents, Tommy and Lori Lucas, indicated that his prognosis was very positive and said Thomas is doing well with his treatments.

Gov. Baker last week signed a $3.76 billion economic development package that includes millions for a new Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center and the Dorchester Field House planned for Columbia Point. The outlays, funded through a state tax surplus and $500 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money, sends $112 million to the MBTA for work and safety

Fields Corner has become the “hot spot” in the city for Bubble Tea and other Asian drinks and desserts, thanks to its cluster of Vietnamese businesses that were well poised to capitalize on an international surge of interest in the market. “I would say Bubble Tea is to Fields Corner what the cannoli is to the North End,” said Jackey West Devine, director of Fields Corner Main

For Maura Healey and Andrea Campbell, Tuesday’s election was a day to set some markers. Healey, a South End resident, easily dispatched her Republican opponent for governor to become the first woman, and the first openly gay person, to be elected to sit in the Corner Office at the State House. Campbell, a Mattapan resident and former Boston City Councillor, trounced her

Facing what parents called an “unexpected pivot” by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (RCAB) regarding the future of St. Brendan’s church and school, scores of students and parents staged a noisy, but peaceful protest on Wednesday morning in front of a Braintree office building that houses RCAB administrative offices, including Cardinal Sean O’Malley. “Leave our School

Hundreds of goblins, werewolves and superheroes populated Pope John Paul II Park on Thursday night, Oct. 17 for the annual Pumpkin Parade, which has been ongoing for many years (previously it was the Pumpkin Float). Coordinators Maria and Julia Lyons joined the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), the Neponset River Greenway Council and the Neponset River Watershed

Between scenic shots of the High Speed Trolley clicking through the falling snow, of water rushing along the lush banks of the Neponset, and of the Blue Hill Avenue streetscape, teen film director Moses Sibley of the Mattapan Teen Center (MTC) located the pulse of the people of Mattapan and put it on film in “Mattapan The Documentary,” which has become the talk of the

The typical site visit for higher-ups at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) include muddy boots, rolling fields of wheat in the Midwest, or fruit-filled orchards in California, but this week the USDA came to Dorchester to promote the agency’s interest in an urban agriculture model underway at two sites in our neighborhood.

On Oct. 1, Mayor Michelle Wu and community gardening and farm activists from around the city gathered at the Boston Housing Authority’s Franklin Field Elderly development on Ames Street in Dorchester to celebrate the announcement of the GrowBoston: Office of Urban Agriculture’s Advisory Board. The mayor used the occasion to also announce $600,000 in Grassroots Program funding

The artwork, by Corita Kent, is getting a touch-up.