We are thrilled to announce that HarborOne Bank has signed on as a $5,000 sponsor of the South Boston Street Festival.

"We welcome HarborOne to South Boston and appreciate their commitment to assisting small businesses in the community through their generous Street Festival partnership, as well as their small business programming," said Donna Brown, executive director of South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation.

Courtney and Chelsea Mulligan and Vi Thai are spending this summer taking care of the plant beds and picking up trash along Broadway, planting flowers and caring for gardens, and cleaning up the area for the Farmers Market. But this is way more than just a summer job for these Youth Ambassadors.

It’s preparation for their futures: in education, in confidence, in the workforce, and in their communities.

Courtney, Chelsea, and Vi are part of South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation’s longtime summer program and are under the tutelage of a former Youth Ambassador, Noah White, who is in his second year overseeing the program.

Help is on the way for small businesses in South Boston thanks to a $34,000 Tufts Medical Center grant awarded to South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation.

In an effort to stabilize or grow existing local small businesses, with a preference for minority- and women-owned establishments, SBNDC will use the funding to hire additional staff to provide expanded technical assistance.

The South Boston Neighborhood Aid Network distributed the last of its Care Kits last week to South Boston families in the Mary Ellen McCormack housing development.

South Boston's newest public park and community garden opened this week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, lots of sunshine and gratitude.