There are an estimated 30 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry in the United States. Here in Massachusetts, roughly one in four people traces roots to the Emerald Isle, where Boston is credibly viewed as the “next parish over.”
Dorchester Baseball’s 12-and-under All-Star boys’ team had a great summer-ending week in Cooperstown, NY, last month playing in a tournament while enjoying off-the-field time, thanks to the generous support of neighbors and businesses that put $26,000 in the pot to fund the trip.
For ten young people from Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury, the summer of 2025 was a time when words like urban agriculture and food justice turned into reality with their participation in the Urban Farming Institute’s (UFI) six-week-long Garden Bugs program.
As an ELA teacher, I am always looking to provide more feedback to my students on their writing. With 20+ students in each of my classes, there is never enough time to meet with every student and discuss their writings in depth.
The non-profit Parties from Above staged its second annual Back-to-School Fashion Show at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre last Thursday, just ahead of the Back-to-School rush.
The Conservatory Lab Charter School, which has converted its old Lower School building on Hancock Street – once a nursing home – into a first-rate school facility, welcomed some 225 students, most of them from Dorchester and Mattapan, into their new digs last Tuesday morning in the kickoff to a new school term.
Neighbors are planning a day-long block party along Pleasant Street for this Saturday (Sept. 6) with the street closed to vehicles from Trescott to Stoughton streets from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
By Cassidy McNeely and Seth Daniel
No one day shines a brighter light on the rental housing market in the city of Boston than Sept. 1, as thousands of people — largely college-aged students and young professionals — make the move into new quarters.
A renovated city-owned park in the heart of Codman Square is turning heads this week as the fences came down and residents celebrated its opening with a Labor Day community BBQ on Monday.
Polls are now closed across Boston in the preliminary election for mayor and city council.
An impressive showcase of vintage cars and trucks is planned for this Sunday (Sept. 7) in Dorchester Park.
It has been a year since DPH allowed the closure of the Carney Hospital, which had served Boston and nearby suburbs since 1863.
Rainesi Gonzalez Soto of Dorchester has been awarded a prestigious academic scholarship from the Jennison Charitable Foundation in the amount of $15,000 to support her tuition at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she plans to major in finance.
A group of about 30 Eversource employees left their daily business tasks behind to get down and dirty last Tuesday (Aug.19) as volunteers at The Food Project’s West Cottage St. farm, fanning out around Uphams Corner to clean up the Dudley Street Greenhouse, fill raised garden beds on North Ave, and harvest squash and dragon tongue beans at the Langdon Street site.
Ashmont Nursery School is back open in its familiar space on Washington Street and looking to fill some vacant seats. The school had to relocate temporarily after a man— apparently intoxicated— rammed through its wall on the night of Jan. 22.