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Here’s an idea to give a boost to your neighborhood: Hold a community cleanup. A week ago last Saturday, three sites in Savin Hill saw some community love when 40 residents picked up rakes, shovels, and other implements and gave a few hundred hours of volunteer time. On the menu were Savin Hill Park, Patton’s Cove, and the new Wildlife Garden and adjacent highway berm on
Savin Hill residents are deploying new signage to make their case for a quicker implementation of the Neighborhood Slow Streets program in their section of Dorchester – a part of the neighborhood prone to cut-through traffic and speeding vehicles. Neighbors recently unveiled three prototypes of signs that have been springing up around Savin Hill and along Columbia Road. At the
Mayor Michelle Wu’s “Vision for Boston’s Urban Forest” is an impressive document. The plan, at 237 pages, has specific goals, cites best practices from other cities, and has a system of evaluation toward the goal of increasing the city’s tree canopy. Mayors Menino and Walsh also had ambitious plans to increase the canopy, neither of which came to fruition. In fact, it has
On a recent hot summer day, a steady beat sounded throughout Dorchester’s Savin Hill Park, as several dozen Black seniors gathered to learn how to play Japanese drums called taiko. It looked like a fairly simple set-up chairs, drums, an instructor, microphones and loudspeakers but organizers put a lot of effort in to make the event feel inclusive. The event was funded by a