Amidst an atmosphere pulsating with festive enthusiasm and camaraderie, Dorchester’s Pope John Paul Park II came alive last Saturday as hundreds of runners converged at the edge of the Neponset River for the Dorchester Running Club’s annual Halfway to Dot Day 5k Road Race. “We started the event in 2013 with the purpose of just getting the neighborhood and community together to
Amidst an atmosphere pulsating with festive enthusiasm and camaraderie, Dorchester’s Pope John Paul Park II came alive last Saturday as hundreds of runners converged at the edge of the Neponset River for the Dorchester Running Club’s annual Halfway to Dot Day 5k Road Race. “We started the event in 2013 with the purpose of just getting the neighborhood and community together to
“Neponset Day’ is coming up this weekend (Sun., July 30) at Neponset II Park by Granite Ave with free paddling, music, and family activities. Our organization, the Neponset River Watershed Association, is dedicated to cleaning up and protecting the Neponset River. We love nothing better than to see the big smiles on kids’ faces at Neponset Day, as they shove off from the shore
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Many years ago, the only experience most people in Dorchester and Mattapan had with turkeys was on the last Thursday of November, and those specimens usually came frozen and ready for the oven. While the gobblers had disappeared as everyday wanderers across Massachusetts for more than 100 years until about 1970, a long repatriation effort by state wildlife experts over the