“Open Streets,” last year’s event that temporarily shut down Dorchester Avenue to traffic and opened it up to pedestrians, is scheduled to return on Sun., Sept. 17. The shutdown will stretch a little over a mile between Fields Corner and Ashmont. City Hall officials have shortened the length from last year’s extent, which ran from Dot Ave. at Freeport Street to Gallivan
The Trotter K-6 Elementary School playground on Humboldt Avenue has no shortage of open space, but the problem is there’s nothing happening there. That will soon change, thanks to a $1 million Community Investment Act grant that was announced last week that will be used to transform a play space now consisting of paved surfaces, a small track, and a few patches of grass into a
A file photo shows the scene on April 23, 1965 as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a crowd from the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common following a march from Carter Playground in Roxbury. In April 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. returned to Boston for a three-day stay in the city where, a decade earlier, he had lived while he studied at Boston University, and
The Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center has hired Dr. Simone Ellis, a family medicine physician, as its new medical director. Dr. Alice Lin has been serving as interim director at the clinic. A native of Bridgeport, CT with roots in Jamaica and Belize, Ellis first became familiar with the areas served by the Harvard Street center as a medical student at Boston