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When Auston Harris looked out on the newly finished garden and open space on Magnolia Street last week, he recalled the early days of the effort when he was a teen-ager who joined with other volunteers to dig out polluted soil on the site and level off the ground by hand. He remembers long days with a shovel and pickaxe driven by a community vision for the space that at the
The horrific murder of an 11-year-old girl four decades ago in Dorchester’s Ronan Park is again stirring emotions as a proposal to re-name a playground inside the park as a memorial to the victim is under consideration by city officials. Maryann Hanley was found murdered and raped in the park on Aug. 1, 1983. The then-boyfriend, Val Mayfield, of one of her sisters, was
While ongoing roofing work seeks to button up the leaks in Humphreys Art Studios at Uphams Corner, the second phase of New Atlantic Development’s plan to save the studios – which includes a new 21-unit affordable housing development – is underway. “This has already been given a thumbs up,” said Catherine Infantino, of New Atlantic. “Part of the effort now is reminding people
Long before Dorchester native Calvin “Wolf” Davis was earning accolades for his many track successes, including a bronze medal in the 400m hurdles in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, his family knew he had the gift of speed, mostly because no one could catch him when he got into trouble. “We always knew he was faster than anyone else,” said his sister, LaTanya Davis, in an
The first in-person community meeting regarding a controversial proposal by Boston Medical Center to build supportive housing at the Shattuck Hospital site on the Dorchester-Jamaica Plain border took place last Tuesday (Sept. 19) at the Lena Park Community Center in Dorchester. It was a tale of two meetings: BMC officials and some of their partners convened in an official