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Universal childcare - where children are entitled to a free or cheap place at nursery or daycare - does not benefit the majority of youngsters, according to the report.
More than 500 children and families gathered at Pope John Paul II Park in Neponset on Oct. 26 for the annual Halloween Pumpkin Parade, formerly the Pumpkin Float, for a night of music, games, costumes, and – of course – candy by the handful. The event had been cancelled due to the pandemic for a couple of years but returned last year with good results.
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
If left untouched, Tenean Beach will continue to flood and eventually affect the MBTA’s Red Line extension to Braintree, I-93 and Morrissey Boulevard — three major transportation lines in Dorchester that carry hundreds of thousands of riders and drivers every day, according to a new report.
The Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, paid a flying visit to Charleville last Monday afternoon, where she visited Charleville Sheltered Housing Complex at Love Lane, and the Macauley Day Centre at Main Street.