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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