DORCHESTER — Veteran Boston journalist and radio host Dan Rea and his wife, Jeanne, made a “substantional gift” to the University of Massachusetts Boston to renovate and endow the weight room in the school’s Clark Athletic Center, UMass announced. Rea, who graduated from Boston State College a decade before it merged with UMass Boston, chose to honor the importance of both institutions and their athletic programs through the “Dan Rea ’70 Boston State College Varsity…

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DORCHESTER — Hundreds of well-wishers and mourners lined the streets of Dorchester near St. Ann’s church in Neponset for a touching farewell to Jimmy Hayes, a local native and former pro hockey player who died unexpectedly recently. He was 31. Although the actual funeral Mass was for immediate family only, the area outside the church to Florian Hall was lined with Dorchester residents, participants in the local youth hockey program, Jimmy’s friends from his days…

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DORCHESTER — More than 300 guests turned out for a send-off event at Florian Hall in Dorchester for “Paulie’s Push to Honor and Remember,” a fundraiser in which Paul Veneto, a retired United Airlines flight attendant, will push an airline beverage cart more than 200 miles. Veneto will push the beverage cart from Logan Airport in Boston to Ground Zero in New York, for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. He decided to do this to…

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