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The Roxbury Homecoming — Juneteenth Festival in Franklin Park was extremely well attended last Saturday.

Roxbury has long been known as the center of Boston’s black community. But it wasn’t always that way. Blacks didn’t begin moving into the neighborhood in great numbers until the middle of the 20th century.

Historic pride and preservation efforts in Roxbury are hardly a new trend. Nearly 100 years ago, an impressive volume, Picturesque Boston Highlands (Roxbury), Jamaica Plain and Dorchester offered an 1895 account of many areas that had then already endured as Roxbury landmarks.

Mansions built by Roxbury’s residents during the 1700s and 1800s are still standing. They are magnificent dwellings and figured prominently in our city's history.

This Saturday, June 15, families, old gangs and other groups stake out spaces with tents, awnings and chairs.

The Boston Planning and Development Agency will soon be releasing a request for proposals for the Dudley Square site known as Parcel 8.

The city’s decision to install kiosks to accept discarded hypodermic needles in front of and behind the Orchard Garden’s K-8 School has sparked controversy, with critics complaining the measure will do little to keep drug users away from children who attend the school.

State Sen. Nick Collins is looking to speed things up along the sleepy Fairmount Line with a budget amendment that would allow for service at 15-minute intervals.

Over the course of two decades, Jeanne Pinado, who will step down at the end of this year, steered the Roxbury-based community development corporation through Dudley Square’s redevelopment.

Around Roxbury, developers are squeezing in extra residential units in lots that require zoning variances because they are too small or have too little frontage on the street, in the name of creating enough and affordable housing, and crowding the neighbors that are already there.

An ongoing archaeological survey at First Church in Roxbury has found Native American and 19th-century settler artifacts on the property, which has been the site of five meeting houses since the 1600s.

At a community meeting Saturday morning, developers presented proposals for two city-owned parcels of land near Dudley Square which would create both housing and retail space.