Ted Loska News Today

On Monday of this week, a hearing held by City Councillor Henry Santana’s Committee on Education to take up the issue of how the city’s student-athletes can reclaim priority time slots for practices at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury attracted its sponsoring councillors, city officials, representatives of the Lewis Center, and Jackie Jenkins-Scott,

The Boston United Track and Cross Country Club's old home is being converted to a temporary shelter for migrants. Now, they're relocating to the nearby Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury.

Efforts to slow down driving in Dorchester have increased in intensity over the last few months with speed hump installation being prioritized across the neighborhood. Bowdoin-Geneva and the Hancock Street Triangle are the latest named as key areas where a new program will focus on quick fixes and long-term changes to enhance safety for drivers and pedestrians.

A proposal to rename a playground in Ronan Park after the late Maryann Hanley, an 11-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in the park in 1983, continues to roil the neighborhood in controversy, with family members saying they won’t give up the cause and some community members still debating the appropriateness of the idea. After an intense informal community meeting on the