Every year, hundreds of City Year workers and volunteers use the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to complete a service project in the city rather than take the day off. On Monday, more than 200 individuals converged on the Oliver Wendell Holmes K-6 School in Dorchester to re-paint the school’s hallways and stairwells. Bethany Reynolds, of City Year, told the volunteers
Advocates for a workforce training center meant to prepare people of color for careers in an area where they are under-represented – the Commonwealth’s bio-tech sector – celebrated the opening last Thursday (Jan. 4) of a 4,000-square-foot space for that purpose inside Southline Boston, the former Boston Globe building on Morrissey Boulevard.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu began her 2024 State of the City address Tuesday night by basking in the glow of last month’s parade for the national Pop Warner football champions, the Dorchester Elite Eagles, and the Boston Lady Raiders cheerleaders a celebration that followed 18 years of disappointments. But, when it was time for the obligatory words about why the state of the city