




As community members danced to music and shopped at the Ashmont Friday Market, steps away, families, friends, and kids in Crocs admired the new mosaic installed at the tables in Peabody Square.

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.

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.

The Codman Square Farmer’s Market welcomed multiple farm stands, a cooking demonstration, and a group of aerialists who performed in Rev. Loesch/Wainwright Park on Saturday morning and afternoon as part of a program sponsored by the organization Dorchester Speak for the Trees.

The five original members of the R&B super-group New Edition will return “right back where they started from” this weekend for a long-overdue salute from the same city that seems to sometimes forget that the “NE crew” are the original native sons that “blew-up” back in the day

By Arielle Gray, WBUR
In 1974, photographer Constantine Manos spent nine months taking thousands of photos of people and neighborhoods across Boston.