Eats made by ZAZ Restaurant Cash Bar Vibe with DJ WhySham Mattapan Square and Blue Hill Ave are being redesigned?!

Come and enjoy a cocktail – or mocktail – with Consult LeLa and other partners to get the scoop on what is happening. Talk with the Boston Transportation Department about the project, learn about PLAN Mattapan and the development in the neighborhood, meet the faces behind the community engagement of Blue Hill Avenue, and find ways to be civically involved with Spark Boston. When you’re tired of networking, enjoy a cocktail, food from ZAZ Restaurant, and play an oversized yard game while jamming to vibes by DJ WhySham. We can't wait to chill with you, Mattapan!

Join us on June 21 along with the USS Constitution Museum for our 2022 LGBTQ Veterans' Celebration featuring keynote speaker, Hill Wolfe!

For more information, call 617-241-8387, visit the USS Constitution Museum website, or email veterans@boston.gov.

We will lead you on a 90-minute group ride to practice your street skills. The route will include off-street paths, separated bike lanes, and low-stress shared streets. This class is perfect for women who:

• have completed our Street Skills: Road readiness course
• are comfortable biking on paths but not sure about riding in the street, or
• want to build confidence riding on street.

Created in honor of Latin music icon Tito Puente, this series celebrates 15 years of bringing live Latin music with a strong salsa influence to Boston parks.  The series is sponsored in part by:

• Berklee College of Music, and
• Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion

Free salsa lessons are led by MetaMovements.

All Tito Puente Latin Music Series dates

The Office of Fair Housing and Equity (FHE) is excited to be hosting a series of events we are calling "Picnics in the Park!" We will provide a tailored Fair Housing training that will not only cover the history and laws protecting fair housing, but specifically discuss the rights of Boston's LGBTQIA+ community to have equitable access to housing. Afterwards, participants will take proactive steps by canvassing the local area with posters that we will display in local businesses and bulletins. Of course, light lunch will be served because what is a picnic without some refreshments! We look forward to this informative and collaborative event.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Maggie Callaghan at maggie.callaghan@boston.gov or 617-635-2536.

DISCUSSION TOPICS

1.  Agenda

   The hearing will be held at 10 a.m. on a request for the removal of one pin oak tree measuring 20 inches dbh (diameter at breast height) due to a park redevelopment project being undertaken by the Boston Public Works Department at Frederick Douglass Memorial Plaza located between Tremont, Cabot, and Hammond Streets in Roxbury.

   The hearing will be held by the City of Boston’s Tree Warden (or designee). Please note that due to the current pandemic the hearing will be a virtual meeting via ZOOM. Written comments or questions may be submitted to parks@boston.gov prior to the hearing. The information for the ZOOM hearing is as follows:

   JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING

   • Participate by phone: 1-646-558-8656
   • Webinar ID: 867 8805 6071

   Public testimony will be taken or may be provided prior to the hearing in writing to the Tree Warden, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, 1010 Massachusetts Avenue, 3rd floor, Roxbury, MA 02118 or by emailing parks@boston.gov with “Roxbury Tree Hearing” in the subject line.

   A final decision regarding the request will be made within two weeks of the hearing. For further information, please contact the Tree Warden at 617-635-7275.

Meet your neighbors, City of Boston employees, and SPARK Boston council members past or present in Notch's biergarten at the center of the Charles River Speedway! We'll have information about our next council cycle, voter registration forms, special guests, and more. Come grab a pint with us! 

Register Today

We're recruiting 20 to 35 year old Boston residents from all across the city to participate in Mayor Wu's 2022-2023 SPARK Boston Council, a volunteer group of young adults dedicated to advancing civic engagement in their generation and beyond. Applications are open now through Friday, May 13.

Apply Here

The JROTC program has expanded from the first unit, established in the Mario Umana High School in East Boston in 1976 to one which now includes 6 Boston High Schools.  The goal of the program is to motivate young people to become better citizens. The purpose is not to prepare students for active military service, but to develop leadership, responsibility, self-esteem and an understanding of good citizenship.