To the Editor: I have been a resident of the Melville Park neighborhood of Dorchester for 36 years, and in that time have seen much change. I have been active in the Melville Park Association, one of the many associations established throughout the city with the support of the various administrations to assist in addressing local issues. For the past six years our
It’s back to the drawing board for some refinements on a planned four-unit townhouse configuration for long-derelict 15 Parkman St. in the wake of a rejection of the project by the St. Mark Area Civic Association (SMACA). The attorney Chung Lee presented the plan, and while it was a bit of a scattered presentation, the nuts and bolts include four townhouse units on the lot in
Volunteers gathered at Dorchester's Loesch Park in one of the first tree plantings to remember lives lost to COVID. It kicks off a tour of tree plantings in cities like New York City, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
As Tiffany Williams put the finishing touches on her planting of a tree in Dorchester’s Dr. Loesch Family Park on Wainwright Street last Friday, it was an exercise in celebrating a new life, and remembering one lost. For her, adding a tree in the park was about creating a living memorial to her mother, Jacqualine Williams, a Dorchester woman who was one of many who died during