Category: Dorchester Reporter
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Businesses urged to join city’s World Cup guide before Sunday deadline
Businesses still have time to join Boston’s FIFA World Cup Neighborhood Business Guide before Sunday’s deadline. City officials are urging local shops, restaurants and bars to sign up for a guide meant to steer soccer fans into Boston’s neighborhoods. The FIFA World…
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‘Legacy’ Boston businesses honored for staying rooted in neighborhood life
When Elizabeth Deveney Frazier walks through cemeteries across Boston, she can often recognize her family’s work before she sees the name. “I can walk around any cemetery in Boston, and I can pick out stones that we made,” said Frazier,…
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Meet Richard Dobbyn: Lifelong Dot resident, Vietnam vet, and chief marshal of the Dot Day parade
Richard Dobbyn is no stranger to the annual Dot Day parade. Born and raised in Dorchester, he marched in it as a Boy Scout at age 13. Now 78, the lifelong Dorchester resident will assume the role of chief marshal,…
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A Q&A with Katie Nolan, newly-named Dorchester mayor, about Dot Day and home
‘I don’t ever want to leave this area,’ says Katie Nolan.. Katie Nolan has been going to the Dorchester Day Parade for as long as she has been alive. Born in February 1998, she notes that she was at the parade that…
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A BPS program that helped 3,000 families avoid homelessness is surprised by a major funding cut
A partnership between Boston Public Schools and support organizations that helps families avoid homelessness has seen its funding cut… A new study showed that a partnership between Boston Public Schools and support organizations helps families avoid homelessness, increases students’ school attendance rates,…
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A ‘full-service support system’ makes Salvation Army’s responses invaluable
Kroc Center team is ever at the ready to assist Bostonians impacted by disasters such as house fires. Truman Dickerson reports… When an apartment building in Mattapan went up in flames last month, the Boston Fire Department, as usual, responded…
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Senate bond bill includes funding for ongoing rehab of Town Field
An environmental bond bill passed by the State Senate and awaiting action by the House of Representatives includes roughly $3 million in funds aimed at Dorchester projects, according to Sen. Nick Collins. In its current form, the “Mass Ready Act”…