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[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 23, 2017] SOUTH END — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, former Mayor Ray Flynn, and numerous other city officials, South End residents, and students turned out recently at the McKinley School for a birthday celebration to recognize community leader/author/former politician Mel King. Called a “Son of the South End,” King is perhaps best remembered as a community leader who challenged Flynn in 1983 to be Boston’s mayor after then Mayor Kevin White…

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Recent Events

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SOUTH END — 450 guests attended the United South End Settlements annual Neighborhood Gala that raised more than $380,000 to fund the 127-year-old nonprofit’s programs that support children and their families. Guests included actress and producer Eliza Dushku and her husband, the developer Peter Palandjian. The organization, which has as its core mission to unite the South End community to end the cycle of poverty, held the gala in the open space underneath the Southeast…

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Special Guest

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SEAPORT — More than 400 guests attended the 17th annual Adopt-A-Student Foundation’s gala to support scholarships for Cathedral High School students. More than $1.3 million was raised at the Oct. 18 event, which was held at the Seaport Hotel. The dinner honored Linda Dorcena Forry, vice president for Diversity Inclusion and Community Relations at Suffolk Construction. The Adopt-A-Student Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization established to ensure that students of all economic, educational, and…

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Game Changers

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[UPDATED] SOUTH END/ROXBURY — Bill Brett was stopped along Mass. Avenue near Washington Street the other night at dusk when he took this photograph of the old Alexandra Hotel, a gothic style building that people have watched for years wondering how it will be redeveloped. The Boston Globe’s Dan Adams wrote about a new sale in a story that was published on Aug. 1, 2017. The Boston Globe reported on this building’s status in 2015…

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