A youth-focused facility going up in Columbia Point got caught in a City Hall crossfire this week. The construction of the Dorchester Fieldhouse at 315 Mount Vernon St. is a joint development of two local nonprofits, the Martin Richard Foundation and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, that received sign-off from city planning officials earlier this year. The project
A youth-focused facility going up in Columbia Point got caught in a City Hall crossfire this week. The construction of the Dorchester Fieldhouse at 315 Mount Vernon St. is a joint development of two local nonprofits, the Martin Richard Foundation and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester, that received sign-off from city planning officials earlier this year. The project
Bob Scannell celebrated his 35th anniversary as the leader of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester on May 26. Bob Scannell was hired out of college as executive director of the then called Colonel Daniel Marr Boys Club in May 1987. “I am so fortunate to have spent the last 35 years alongside the most dedicated and caring individuals in the City who make the members and
Hundreds of young members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD) gathered secretly in the gym at the Deer Street building Monday afternoon to stage a high-energy surprise send off to long-time club leader Mike Joyce, who is travelling to Chicago this week to accept a national award. With homemade signs reading things like ‘We love you Mike,’ and chants of “We like
The project to build a state-of-the-art indoor fieldhouse for Dorchester youth is getting a big boost from the federal government in the form of a $1 million grant, said Congressman Stephen F. Lynch, who pushed through the funding as part of an $1.5 trillion appropriations package passed and signed into law last week. The fieldhouse a partnership of Boys and Girls Clubs of