News | Dorchester Reporter (2024)

Funding restored for Dot’s Peace Institute in 'partial' override

It was after almost seven hours of budget grind, and a barrage of mostly failed amendments, when Liz Breadon dropped the f-bomb, ... Read more.

Mayor Michelle Wu visited a newly-renovated Mother’s Rest Park near Four Corners in Dorchester on Wednesday morning, the last stop in a tour of city parks and playgrounds as part of a “coffee hour” series across the ... Read more.

After five years of planning, the local development team of Caribbean Integration Community Development (CICD) and the Archdiocese of Boston’s Planning Office for Urban Affairs (POUA) broke ground on their third Mattapan ... Read more.

With the weather warming up, many of us have one thing on our minds – enjoying the great outdoors! As we gear up for another summer, the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) kicks off its annual safety campaign, Too Hot ... Read more.

Boston Day and Evening Academy
Tyra Perry
Dorchester
Tyra has had a special interest in working with children throughout her life. As part of her Capstone project, she researched the ... Read more.

Some 45 volunteer summer interns from John Hanco*ck blanketed the historic Blake House on Columbia Road last Friday (June 14) to mark a day of service.

Columbia-Savin Hill resident Des Rohan, a Hanco*ck employee, ... Read more.

Reflecting on my high school experience, resilience seems to be the defining factor in how I and my fellow members of the class of 2024 navigated the dark and uncertain years of the Covid-19 pandemic.

I grew up ... Read more.

In the mid-1960s, Lyda Peters taught first graders at The Quincy Dickerman Elementary School in Dorchester, then a low-income, predominantly Black neighborhood. Peters was one of the few Black teachers at the school. ... Read more.

Last Friday (June 21) marked the 50th anniversary of Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s decision in Morgan vs. Hennigan, the Boston school desegregation case that led to busing. The plaintiffs comprised 14 adults and 43 ... Read more.

BC High cruised to Division 1 State baseball championship on June 15 with a 5-1 win over St. John’s of Shrewsbury and celebrated afterwards at at Polar Park in Worcester.

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Cynthia “Cindy” Dye’s story is not over, but the chapter about her life as the Fields Corner children’s librarian is nearing its final pages. Originally from Colorado, Dye, came to Boston in 1985 to pursue her master’s ... Read more.

Looking at the landscape of Fields Corner, business partners Junior Pena and Vivien Veth recognized that there was a growing population of residents from the Dominican Republic in the neighborhood, but no restaurant ... Read more.

The BPDA will host a virtual public meeting on Mon., July 8. at 6 p.m. to discuss a proposed change to the next phase of the Olmsted Village housing development on Harvard Street along the Dorchester and Mattapan border. ... Read more.

As Steward Health Care goes through bankruptcy proceedings, many doctors and patients are reluctant to associate with its seven operating hospitals in Massachusetts, according to health care leaders and people who work in ... Read more.

The vacant city-owned lots on the west side of Dorchester and into Mattapan that have sat vacant and underutilized for 35 or 40 years are getting fewer by the day. Just this month at a City Hall roundtable discussion, ... Read more.

Edwarda Parkinson is the class of 2024’s valedictorian at City on a Hill Charter School (COAH) in Roxbury. Her journey to this point did not come without challenges, and she recently met with The Reporter to talk about ... Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a land owner's plans to replace a convenience store and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams ... Read more.

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city- ... Read more.

For years children in the Boston area with various physical and intellectual disabilities were being excluded from participating in America’s favorite pastime. Ten years ago, Brendan McDonough decided the same would not ... Read more.