Civics
Civics
BPL forming task force for Lower Mills shut-down
May. 19, 2010
By Reporter Staff
The Reporter has learned that Boston Public Library officials are organizing a meeting for this Monday, May 24, to form a task force as they move forward with their plans to close the Lower Mills Library. The meeting is slated for 6:30 p.m. on Monday at Carney Hospital, in the president’s board room.
Koren Stembridge, the BPL’s chief director of partnerships, said Wednesday that the meeting would discuss “transitioning services from the library.” The meeting, she said, is open to the public, although the Reporter had not been officially notified about the meeting as of press time this week. Stembridge said that the meeting was announced at Tuesday evening’s meeting of the Lower Mills Civic Association. Read more
Campaign to halt library closings ramps up
May. 7, 2010
Chris Lovett of Neighborhood Network News filed this report on the continuing campaign to halt the planned closings of four branch libraries, including the one in Dorchester Lower Mills.
Library Supporters Start Sign Campaign from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.
Commentary: Libraries can be saved if council stands tall
Apr. 15, 2010
In these hard times, it’s up to us, Dorchester’s residents and to our city councillors to save the Lower Mills Library and services at all our branches. We need to count on our two Dorchester Councillors, Maureen Feeney and Charles Yancey, and our four at-large councillors, Stephen Murphy, John Connolly, Ayanna Pressley, and Felix Arroyo to stand with us.
If each of these six politicians fights for the Lower Mills Library and services to all libraries, and if enough Dorchester residents add their donations and time, then the libraries will be saved. Read more
City agency pulling out of Marshall, Mattahunt community centers
Apr. 13, 2010
The Boston Centers for Youth and Families will pull out of eight facilities, including the Marshall community center in Dorchester and the Mattahunt community center in Mattapan, the agency's executive director told city councillors on Wednesday. The announcement comes ahead of Mayor Thomas Menino filing his fiscal 2011 budget with the City Council on Wednesday. Read more
Library trustees vote to shut Lower Mills branch
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Boston Public Library trustees voted Friday to close four branches, including the one in Lower Mills.
But City Councillors At-Large Felix Arroyo and Ayanna Pressley, and West Roxbury's Councillor John Tobin vowed to fight to keep all the branches open when the city council gets the proposed budget next week. Read more
This week: BPL and DOT
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In this week's Reporter:
-- Why did state Sen. Jack Hart walk out of a meeting with state transportation officials? Answer in link.
-- Anger over potential library branch closures continues to mount. The Boston Public Library trustees will vote on closure proposals tomorrow morning, along with the library system's fiscal 2011 budget. Read more
BPL president takes questions from community reporters
Apr. 2, 2010
Days before the Boston Public Library’s board of trustees is expected to vote on whether to close branches or pare back hours, the head of the library system spoke today with a group of community reporters at the main branch in Copley Square. Read more
EDITORIAL-Health Care Relief is Ours
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At long last, relief is here; let us be glad
$88,200.
How many of you earn that amount in a year?
Not I, says the teacher. Nor I, says the letter carrier. Nor I, says the clerk at the corner store. Certainly not I, says the senior citizen living on Social Security.
$88,200. That’s 1,700 bucks a week in your paycheck. If yours is a family of four, and you make less than that, some relief is here, at last. Read more
Five-termer Menino to put focus on ‘innovation’ and education
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Mayor Menino took to the lectern at Faneuil Hall on Monday to deliver his fifth inaugural address to a full house. Read more
Lower Mills Stroll on tap this evening
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Despite the drizzly weather, it was last year around this time that the first Lower Mills Holiday Stroll surprised organizers by attracting over 300 people, many of whom later returned to patronize shops they had peeked in on.
Tonight’s more elaborate second venture promises to attract even bigger crowds with its freebies, art displays, a book-signing for the new paperback about the Baker Chocolate Company, even free trolley service to shuttle shoppers too weary to “stroll†across the bridge between Dorchester and Milton. Read more
