Thursday, November 1, 2007
VOLUNTEERS PLUNGE INTO NEPONSET
DEBRIS
David Conant,
a volunteer with the Neponset River Watershed Association,
dug deep into the muck and junk beneath the Central Avenue
bridge near Lower Mills last Sunday. The volunteer effort
netted a huge amount of rusting shopping carts, bikes, even
a Vespa. The organization says it will need to return to
continue the effort.
Photo by Carly Rocklen
TOP STORY
St.
Brendan's opts out of 2010 school
initiative
The pastor at St.
Brendan parish says he has decided that the parish will not
participate in the ongoing effort to regionalize Dorchester
and Mattapan parochial schools. The decision came just as a
series of parish-based briefings describing the
neighborhood-wide effort concluded. Cardinal Sean O'Malley
is expected to announce a specific plan to consolidate
schools and create a new administrative system to manage
them by the end of this month.
Carney's
woes overstated in report, MDs
say
A published
report last week in the Boston Globe which announced that
Carney Hospital might be "sold or shuttered" stirred new
anxieties at the Lower Mills campus, where staff were
instructed to tell nervous patients that "There are NO plans
to close Carney Hospital." Still, the news has triggered a
flurry of activity by the local political delegation and the
broader medical community.
Special
gun court tackles rise in firearm
arrests
The special
session is aimed at streamlining gun possession cases, which
are popping up with increasing regularity in the
neighborhoods.
Push
to move streetworkers into school gets
hearing
Boston City
Councillor Michael Flaherty's proposal to re-deploy some
city styreetworkers into the schools got some push-back last
week at a City Hall hearing.
COURTHOUSE
ROUND-UP
Malden man banned
in Dorchester
HEALTH
New
campaign against lead poisoning to launch
Saturday
POLITICS
At-large
candidates hit final stretch before Tuesday
election
CIVIC SCENE
Billboards
get Cedar Grove thumbs-up; donation to school
promised
Casey Affleck
stars at "Patrick Kenzie" in the film Gone Baby,
Gone
DOT
ON THE BIG SCREEN
Gone too far?
The Affleck
brothers' adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone Baby,
Gone has received rave reviews from the Hollywood press.
But &emdash; so far &emdash; the take from Dorchester is not
so generous. Hear from three local voices whoi've seen the
flick.
Send
us your own view on the
movie.
Neighborhood
Notables
A comprehensive listing of
upcoming events in and around Dorchester.
Do you have an
event to add? Send non-profit, community listings
here
Special
Reports
Shaky
Foundation
Condo
conversions, foreclosures threaten to undermine signature
three-decker stock
WHAT
THE BUBBLE LEFT
BEHIND
On one street,
foreclosures create "ghost town"
effect
Hendry Street, in the Bowdoin-Geneva section, may be the
poster street for what can happen when foreclosures ravage
city neighborhoods. Chris Lovett reports.
Cops
find new footing with patrols in Codman
Square
Left: Boston
Police Officers Jay Tully, Takisha Skeen, Andrell Jones and
Sergeant Lucas Taxter on patrol on Washington Street. A new
Boston
Police initiative has deployed daily walking beats to Codman
Sq.
and other sections of the neighborhood.
Photo by Gintautus Dumcius
Justice
speaks in many tongues
Dorchester
Court hustles to meet language
needs
Meeting the demand for interpreters is a
constant
struggle at Dorchester's busy courthouse.
On
the Waterfront
The good, the bad, and the
unfinished work of
reclaiming Dorchester's
shoreline
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