Adams
Corner homeboy goes cowboy on reality TV
City slicker
Joe McEachern looks to prove that just because he's from
Dorchester, it doesn't mean he can't rope 'n ride in the
Country Music Channel's reality show "Cowboy U." Bill
Forry photo
Joe McEachern is one of the stars
of a reality TV show called "Cowboy U", which takes city
slickers to Oklahoma for a few weeks of dude ranchin' and
rodeos. The winner of the competition, which features eight
novice cowboys, takes home $25,000 in prize money, a wicked
saddle sore, and bragging rights.
St.
Ambrose church braces for possible change
Parishioners at Saint
Ambrose Catholic Church in Fields Corner were buzzing with
news this weekend that their longtime pastor, Fr. Vincent
von Euw, has been asked to consider leaving the Adams Street
parish in the coming weeks.
Uphams
Corner site selected for new community
center
The Salvation Army has
selected Dorchester's Dudley Street-Uphams Corner
neighborhood as the preferred site to build a massive new
community center that will constitute an $80 million
investment into the neighborhood.
Small
supermarket thrives in Dudley Square
The Garrys, the father
and son team who run Tropical Foods in Roxbury, say that
small grocers like theirs are the only thing holding off a
monopoly by big box stores.
Making
an Impact
Pho 2000; My Xuyen;
Nha-Trang. Of 225 Fields Corner businesses, 126 are
Vietnamese owned. A recent study commissioned by the
Immigrant Learning Center and penned by three UMass-Boston
professors examined the explosive growth of Vietnamese
entrepreneurship in Fields Corner alongside similar trends
in Latino East Boston and multi-ethnic Allston.
Activist's
passing leaves huge void in Savin Hill
Long-time Savin Hill
activist Richie Pacitti died Sunday. He was 53. Friends from
across the city struggled this week to find the words to
describe the loss of a man who was above all else devoted to
his family and to Savin Hill.
City
inspectors target landlord in weekend
sweep
Inspectors from the city
of Boston's Inspectional Services Department (ISD) on
Saturday conducted a sweep of six properties across the city
owned by a landlord who has become one of the neighborhood's
most chronic code violators, according to city
officials.
Full
schedule of events on tap for MLK day
A long and varied list
of Martin Luther King Day events and remembrances is planned
for the city where Dr. King studied theology at Boston
University and preached from Shawmut Ave.'s Twelfth Baptist
Church.
Young
Cape Verdeans look to accentuate the
positive
Distraught at seeing their
countrymen fall prey to drugs and violence, a group of young
Cape Verdeans in Uphams Corner decided that they wanted to
celebrate the positive aspects of their culture.
Dbar
gets support for temporary entertainment
license
The Columbia-Savin Hill
Civic Assocation on Monday voted to give support to a
temporary 2 a.m. entertainment license to dbar, the
Dorchester Ave. restaurant and nightclub that opened last
year in the former home of P.J. Quinn's.
Cedar
Grove airs frustration with Minot St.
proposal
An as-of-right proposal to construct a two-family duplex
on Minot Street stirred long-standing passions about
overcrowding in Dorchester at the Cedar Grove Civic
Association's monthly meeting on Tuesday night.
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