CAMBRIDGE — Several hundred guests attended the Block Party to benefit Next Step, a Boston area organization that helps young people with chronic or life-threatening diseases. The event was held on Friday, April 27, 2018 at the Walker Memorial on the MIT Campus in Cambridge. The evening included a beer garden, live music and dancing, live and silent auctions and a raffle, games, and food and beverages from popular local restaurants, breweries, and distilleries. The…

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PHOTOS BY BILL BRETT DORCHESTER — Hundreds gathered this morning to pay their final respects to Mary Brett McCarthy, a longtime clerk-secretary for the Boston Police Department who worked out of Area C District 11 in Dorchester, where she grew up. And it was to Dorchester, her home church of St. Margaret’s, that Mary returned one last time. A couple of pipers from the Boston Police Gaelic Column of Pipes and Drums played as her…

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UPDATED 04.29.2018 HINGHAM — Mary Brett McCarthy, of Quincy, a longtime civilian member of the Boston Police Department, died on Saturday, April 28, 2018, at the Pat Roche Hospice Home in Hingham, after a long period of declining health, fighting her illness with unbelievable strength and dignity. She leaves her husband, Robert T. McCarthy, children Maryellen McCarthy of Quincy, Sean and Michael McCarthy, both of Dorchester, and her beautiful granddaughter, Bridget Lenehan. Mary also leaves…

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