A team of workers and executives from Comcast converged on the Mildred Avenue Community Center in Mattapan last Wednesday (July 26) and announced a $10,000 donation to the center as they toured the facility and worked on improvement projects. Comcast’s Project Team Up, a company volunteer program, has been instrumental in providing internet access to the center over the past
There are more centenarians nowadays than ever before, we are told, and like Mattapan’s Anna Coleman, who turned 102 on April 10, they continue to amaze with their lived experiences, their active lifestyles, and their spot-on social critiques. Mrs. Coleman, who has lived in the same home in Mattapan for more than 40 years and is the neighborhood’s oldest resident, was the
The last 10 acres of land available at the former State Hospital in Mattapan will be home to several new and different ways of housing community members in settings that include multi-generational buildings and key mentorships to some of the most vulnerable young people in the neighborhood, according to the designated developers for the state-owned site. The Lena New
A plan to re-develop the final 14 acres of the old Boston State Hospital property along Morton Street became a flashpoint of controversy this month as some leaders in Mattapan and Dorchester say that a process to pick a new developer for the site was not transparent, a position disputed by a committee set up to oversee the undertaking. The site in question sits near the corner