The City of Boston and MBTA will present updated design renderings and seek additional input after more than three years of community feedback. The City of Boston and the MBTA announced a series of community meetings to present an updated design for the Blue Hill Avenue Transportation Action Plan and gather additional public feedback. At the meetings, residents will have the opportunity to review the updated project design block by block, ask questions, and provide feedback on parking...

By: Olivia Grant Kay Savage (front center) awarding Certificates of Improvement to participants. COURTESY PHOTO Before the music starts and the first marching steps begin, Kay Savage has a ritual. She makes her way around the room, greeting every participant with a hug. If someone arrives late, she notices. If she misses someone in the crowd, she circles back. No one leaves without that embrace. “I hug every last person,” Savage said of her wildly popular Fit for Life class at the Dorchester...

Many Black res­id­ents in Mat­tapan greet plan for redesign of Blue Hill Avenue with skep­ti­cism. Boston Sunday Globe By Emma Pla­toff In the middle of Blue Hill Avenue’s weeknight chaos — the triple-parked cars and the scoot­ers zip­ping around them; the par­ents grip­ping their chil­dren’s hands as they step off the side­walk to cross; the city bus lum­ber­ing along, belch­ing and hiss­ing — one seg­ment of the street is stag­nant: the wide, empty median. On a street where every­one is...