.WriteHandMan captures the scene

“We’ve got to have the time to get this right. I feel like MassDOT’s usual way of doing things is running up against the law and the reason why this commission was created.” - Jake Wachman, a member of the Morrissey Commission via Taylor Brokesh in Dorchester Reporter

Coming up soon in #Dorchester

From its inception, Franklin Park has been both a landmark and a kind of 'go-fund-me' venture. That opens the door to opportunities--and conflicts.

The Hales’ gift puts the #Dorchester Fieldhouse fundraising campaign at the halfway mark, momentum that makes its success unstoppable. “We wanted to make that happen to give confidence to others that this project will happen,” Rob Hale told me this week.

Read our Commentary re BPDA upcoming Squares + Streets planning initiatives in #Dorchester in this week's Dorchester Reporter

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“I’m going to be serving the people that I am surrounded by. My main goal for my business is to make people feel good and then to see them around,' says Nicole Flaherty, owner of the soon-to-open BostonX business in #Dorchester 's Adams Village via Cassidy McNeeley

A thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the contentious Franklin Park/White Stadium debate from veteran #Boston journalist Chris Lovett

The proposal includes 20 below-grade parking spaces.

About 75 people attended a union-organized community forum about the ongoing crisis involving Steward Health Care and Carney Hospital on Thursday evening at St. Gregory’s parish auditorium, via Cassidy McNeeley

Two letter carriers robbed within the past hour in Dorchester, one on Mora, one at Selden.

Halina Nguyen, a 16-year-old sophomore at Boston Latin School who learned to play tennis at #Dorchester 's Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center, has become a one of the best high school players in the state and among the most promising young talents in New England, via WriteHandMan

Coming up on Sunday, May 5 in #Dorchester

The city-led planning effort centered around Day Blvd. hopes to nail down its engineering designs by 2026 and have a shovel-ready project that will then need to be funded for a far bigger sum.

“Once I saw there was an open house, I just shot my shot... The T has always been in the back of my mind because I always knew there were great opportunities here.' - Peterson Desir, 33, of #Dorchester , one of 23 new heavy rail operators now on job at MBTA

This evening in #Dorchester

K Circle is a nightmare for motorists, pedestrians, and cyclists. A critical (but partial) solution is to divert traffic to lessen the congestion... re-institute the left-hand turn directly off east-bound Columbia Road traffic onto 93 north. - Christopher Binns in Dorchester Reporter

#Dorchester news via Taylor Brokesh

A food forest takes root on a Jones Hill side street 🌱
Dorchester Reporter ⤵️
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The top of the old Bayside sign was lopped off and removed from this white-metal-sheathed tripod a year ago. The orphaned appendages have sat in forlorn fashion for four seasons and now can be reunited with their decapitated better-half in the scrapyard of #Boston history.