The Boston Globe

Roxbury lost its recreation center for a time. Now the challenge is to reconnect it to the community.

Chris Sumner can look out one of the back doors of the Melnea A. Cass Recreation Center in Roxbury and see the house he grew up in: a gray structure on Dale Street. Sumner’s current job as executive ...
Boston Herald

Massachusetts migrant crisis: Roxbury rec. center returned to Boston kids

Boston kids are back running laps on an indoor track at a beloved Roxbury recreation center, a “home” they were displaced from when the Healey administration converted it into a migrant shelter. The ...
The Boston Globe

State’s $1 billion shelter program leaves taxpayers in the dark

The official opening of an emergency migrant shelter at the Melnea Cass Recreational Complex in Roxbury last winter was a full-blown media event as Governor Maura Healey walked among the rows of ...
The Daily Free Press

Early education, childcare programs to implement renovations with EEOST grant allocations

The Woburn Council of Social Concern opened its doors in 2004 and has had no renovations since. Governor Maura Healey during a press conference at the Melnea Cass recreational complex in Roxbury on ...