Last Sunday (July 31), dozens gathered atop Savin Hill to hear more about the history of the park and the Neponset band of the Massachusett tribe that lived hereabouts before European settlers arrived in 1630. The event, sponsored by the Dorchester Historical Society and the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association, featured remarks by Thomas Green, a Bay State native and
The Friends of Savin Hill Park held its 38th annual Savin Hill Park cleanup up this past Saturday. The cleanups have been essential to the restoration of the top five acres of the park, with each year achieving an incremental improvement. This year, a group from the Patten’s Cove area asked to be part of the cleanup. Boston’s parks are well known in the world of urban parks,
Boston mayors have pledged to increase the city’s tree canopy for decades, and while the latest effort to do so seems to be in earnest, we have heard that refrain before. And yet, the extent of the canopy declined from 29 to 27 percent over the last 12 years. Bottom line: Our city departments don’t make trees a priority. Boston needs to add trees everywhere, but especially in
To the Editor: As parents of Boston Public Schools students and Dorchester community members, we strongly disagree with the recent commentary in the Dorchester Reporter by Bill Walczak and Meg Campbell (“Commentary: Let’s place our schools directly under the mayor”) that advocates for full mayoral control of the city’s public schools. The reform that the authors suggest is
Dorchester Avenue is embarrassing. Though certain sections, like the Lower Mills area adjacent to Milton, are better planned and developed, the northern half is an uneven mess. Dot Ave, as residents refer to it, is supposed to be Dorchester’s prestigious main street for businesses and services, and a thoroughfare for travel to downtown, but it does none of these things well.