On one of this summer’s few sunny days, Jennifer Johnson walked down Rita Road in Dorchester with a smile on her face, ready to begin one of her favorite activities these days: Door knocking. Johnson, who is running for the open District 3 Council seat, had parked outside St. Brendan Elementary School and crossed the street to talk with residents who were outside their homes,
Between breakaway dunks, stifling defense, and colorful play-by-play narration, there is a grass-roots effort underway this summer at Ronan Park by key adults and organizations to “take the park back.” When they say “back,” leaders said they don’t just mean to take ownership back, but also to take it back to its heyday, when hundreds of high school aged boys and girls gathered
Tania Fernandes Anderson, who chairs the City Council’s Ways & Means Committee, told members of the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council (GMNC) early this month that the city bureaucracy moves too slowly in distributing funds and the Main Streets model does not work in Black and Brown communities. She suggested that some other type of program replace the model in communities
Jennifer Johnson, who has served as president of the Meetinghouse Hill Civic Association and on the board of Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets, plans to run for the City Council’s Dorchester-based District 3 seat. Incumbent Frank Baker has not formally said whether he’s running for another two-year term as a member of the 13-person body. He has held the job since 2012, succeeding
VietAID has reduced the number of units and increased parking at what it hopes will be its first-ever senior housing development. The property, at 25-33 Hamilton St., now features a vacant lot and a vacant home. The affordable housing developer joined members of an online meeting on Nov. 22 to discuss some changes to the project it first presented in September, including