Trail site opinion? Patrick passes
Gov. Deval Patrick, who lives in Milton near the multi-use path along the Neponset River, has declined to weigh in on how the state should make the trail connect Pope John Paul II Park to the Hyde Park neighborhood and Mattapan Square to Milton’s Central Avenue.
The state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is considering several options on how much the trail should veer into Milton or Mattapan. “No, it’s probably best if I don’t express a preference, to you or anybody,” he told the Reporter with a chuckle. Read more
Program on energy efficiency launched in Dorchester
Bostonians will have more options this winter to make their homes as energy efficient as possible through to a new city program launched last week in Dorchester’s Meetinghouse Hill neighborhood.
Mayor Thomas Menino announced the Renew Boston Residential Program program on Thursday by showcasing the Potosi St. home of Saithlyn Jones, who cut her heating bill in half by taking advantage of the new program. Read more
UMass-Boston’s WUMB kicks off push to make its renewal a winner
WUMB, the University of Massachusetts Boston’s official radio station ,known for its folk and singer-songwriter music, kicked off its “Preserving the Past, Building the Future” Capital Campaign earlier this month with a fundraising gala.
Since its inception in the late 1960s, WUMB radio has evolved from a closed circuit on-campus collegiate radio station to a five station radio network that reaches most of central and eastern Massachusetts as well as parts of Rhode Island. The station’s web broadcast boasts listeners in all 50 states, 103 countries, and seven continents. Read more
Reporter’s Notebook: Lawton charges opponent with vandalizing his sign; I didn’t do it, says Henriquez
Barry Lawton, one of the four candidates running to replace former state Rep. Marie St. Fleur, is accusing a fellow Democratic candidate of trashing one of his campaign signs. Lawton said that while driving with his children last Thursday he saw Carlos Henriquez putting one of his signs in a trash barrel outside of the Brown Food Market at the corner of West Cottage St. and Dudley St. Lawton’s sign had been up in the store since April, Lawton said.
“I’m disappointed, number one,” Lawton told the Reporter. “I’m just disappointed and I’m just surprised. He can’t deny it.” Read more
Education focus at Sixth forum
Four of the five candidates running to succeed retiring state Rep. Willie Mae Allen made their pitch to voters last week at a Grove Hall forum, discussing local jobs policies and education, and why Sixth Suffolk District residents should vote for them.
Russell Holmes, a community activist and certified financial planner with Ameriprise, touted his financial experience, saying his work with families on balancing their budget will help when he gets to the State House, which has faced making $8 billion in cuts to the state budget in the last several years. Read more
Carpenters say their new center speaks to their community roles
In the lobby on the third floor of the new Carpenters Center at 750 Dorchester Avenue are sleek black chairs and hardwood floors and the receptionist behind her desk hums along to the radio on this quiet August afternoon. Beside the long counter of the reception desk is a small metal sculpture of a carpenter wielding a hammer that make one think more of a dentist’s office or the Museum of Contemporary Art than Woody Guthrie and Eugene V. Debs. Read more
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Search for roots leads one man to Cedar Grove
Cornelius Thomas and his wife NancyWhen Raymond Reddick began going through his grandmother’s attic after she passed away in 1985, he stopped to look through a box of pictures. Inside were photographs of his family members going back several generations.
For Reddick, it was just the beginning of an investigation into his family’s history that would take him from Boston to Connecticut to Chicago, and finally to a grave in Dorchester’s Cedar Grove cemetery. His imagination fired by the photographs, Reddick immediately wondered how he could match names to the unidentified faces. Read more
A dream takes shape along Dudley Street: Kroc Center, with $115 million price tag, will be region’s largest
Kroc CenterLess than a year after the ground-breaking, construction at the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center – the largest social service facility in New England history – is nearing completion. Read more
Two Eagles, two Blackhawks
Jimmy Hayes: Stands out for BC's national champs (AP photo)
Kevin Hayes: Drafted by the Blackhawks (AP photo)Dorchester has had quite its share of hockey success stories over the years. But few have been as remarkable as the tale of the Hayes brothers of Neponset.
Jimmy, 20, is a standout forward for the NCAA national champion Boston College Eagles. His younger brother, Kevin, 18, has excelled on the ice for Nobles and Greenough and will join his brother at the Heights next season.
The boys have never played on the same team, so the BC angle looked to be special – until the National Hockey League’s Chicago Blackhawks beat them to the punch. Read more
Children of the Quake: Young survivors learn in a new land
Children of the Quake: Sherline Gustave, 18, survived Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake and joined family to live in Boston in February. She is one of many Haitian nationals now learning English through a special Boston Public School program. She is pictured above in a classroom at Hyde Park High School. Photo by Tara Merrigan
Sherline Gustave, 18, slept on the streets of Port-au-Prince for weeks after January’s earthquake leveled her family’s home.
“I felt the house shaking and it crumbled just as my family and I got outside,” said Gustave in her native Haitian Creole—translated to English by her teacher, Evelyn Prophete. “We [Gustave and her family members] were sleeping out in the street in the sun and even in the rain. Read more
This (really) old house gets a facelift: Pleasant Street site dates back to original settlement
This (really) old house gets a facelift
While tourists are drawn to Massachusetts’s rich history in places like Beacon Hill, Plymouth, and Salem, Dorchester has its own share of notable landmarks, including the oldest surving structure in the city: the James Blake (circa 1661) near Edward Everett Square.
Now local preservationists have turned their gaze to another structure worth saving: a dilapidated house at 65 Pleasant St. that stands on a foundation that dates to the town’s very first days. Read more
