Tens of thousands turned out for the
annual Boston Carnival last Saturday as it made its way
through Roxbury and Dorchester to Franklin Park. The
colorful celebration of Caribbean pride and unity is one of
the largest in the United States.
Photo courtesy: Michael Smith/ Boston Carnival
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Riverfront park beckons... sort
of
The fence is down and the grass has been seeded,
but a new park along the Neponset has not yet officially
opened to the public. Last Monday DCR officials took the
Reporter on a walk-thru of the $7 million park, pointing out
the bellsand whistles of a facility that they say will
officially open by mid-September.
Police track
shifts in crime 'hot
spots'
Much attention has been given this summer to
neighborhoods plagued by shootings and violent crime, but
detectives in C-11 have turned their focus to 'hot spots' of
a different order: a rash of food delivery robberies in
Fields Corner and Meetinghouse Hill.
Neighbors
fear Ashmont Street house is being used as a
church
A two-family home at 487 and 489 Ashmont Street
has drawn large crowds and caused traffic snarls on several
recent weekends, neighbors say, prompting speculation that
the house is being used as a church and drawing a stop-work
order from the city's Inspectional Services Department.
Parking
woes delay baseball plan on Columbia
Point
News that UMass-Boston will have to indefinitely
close the parking garage that doubles as the university's
foundation could mean delays for at least one group's plans
to build a minor league baseball stadium on the
peninsula.
Dot dames
put their wheels to
work
These mild-mannered, workaday women swap ther
paying gigs for roller skates, elbow pads, and intimidating
pseudonyms as competitors in the Boston Derby Dames,
Boston's only all-female roller derby league. A handful of
the dames are from Dorchester, and they say there's no
better way to unwind after a day at the office than by
slamming a fellow Dot rink rat into the boards at Moakley
Park.
Next phase of
Baker development hangs on resident
vote
Residents of the Baker Square condominium complex
in Lower Mills have until September 14 to vote on an
agreement that could mark a decisive turn in long-awaited
construction of new housing units in presently empty
buildings on the historic chocolate factory footprint. The
agreement would extend the deadline for completion of the
project into October and in exchange the developer, Winn
Development, would pay the condo association $250,000
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REPORT
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candidates for governor: a
Q&A
On July 27, the Reporter asked each of the six
candidates who are running to succeed Mitt Romney a series
of questions that touch on considerations on the minds of
many who live in Dorchester.
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