Friday, November 30, 2007
New regional
Catholic school system
unveiled
St. Peter, St.
Kevin to close, Blessed Mother Theresa to move
The long awaited final
decision on which of eight Dorchester and Mattapan K-8
Catholic Grammar schools would be closed and which would
remain open was announced to principals on Thursday. St.
Peter and St. Kevin schools will be having their last day of
school this June, and Blessed Mother Theresa School on Savin
Hill Avenue will move in to a renovated St. Margaret School
by next September. All remaining schools will be part of one
regional school called Pope John Paul II Academy. Each
surviving school will likely be renamed and renovated if not
rebuilt in a multi-phased plan. Read
the full story so far.
UPDATE: No plans yet for St.
Mark, St. Ann, St. Angela or St. Gregory school renovations
or reconstruction work, according to Father James O'Leary, a
participant in the planning process. No word yet even on
which schools will be rebuilt and which will be renovated.
The 2010 Initiative planning committee told teachers the
approved plan, as it stands so far, will be added to
rcab.org
on Saturday.
Menino
'open' to UMass-Boston
dorms
Mayor Tom Menino, whose
opposition to a 2003 UMass-Boston campaign to build student
housing was pivotal to blocking that effort, says that a new
master plan that includes dorms on Columbia Point is
probably a good idea.
Parents,
cops debate merits of warrant-less home
searches
Boston Police made their
case for conducting voluntary home searches for illegal guns
to a skeptical Grove Hall audience at the Trotter Elementary
school last week.
Police hope the new initiative
- which has not begun yet - will help them intervene in the
life of a young person who has not yet become an "impact
player" in street crime.
Plus: Grove
Hall activists probe ideas for a new youth
center
Cell
phone ban prompts complaints, new business, in Codman
Square
Cell phones have been
banned in Dorchester District Court for months now and the
rule has generated its share of complaints and something of
a cottage industry at local convenience stores, which charge
people to "hold" the phones while they attend
court.
Eighth-grader
girl one of top
wrestlers in the
nation
In a ranking full of older
high school girls, Kayla Cox, an eighth-grade student at the
Lilla G. Frederick Middle School on Columbia Road, is ranked
number seven in the country.
COMMENTARY
Bullies, buddies
and boyos:
A day spent with
'EEI
Contributing editor Tom
Mulvoy finds legit sports talk with a heavy dose of
incivility.
OTHER STORIES
Fields
Corner mall upgrade
nearing
completion
Plans
for land next to Mattapan park take neighbors by
surprise
New
drug treatment center targets Bird
St.
Proposed
Boston St. buildings get mixed
reviews
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, what about the take from Dorchester?
Hear from five local voices who have 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
Savin
Hill treasure fetches big bucks at
auction
This portrait of a young Edward Reed Dorr, right, hung in a
Savin Hill home owned by the Dorr family for over 100 years.
In August, it was "discovered" by a Boston auction house
and, this month, it sold amid furious bidding for
$866,000.
Commentary:
Why we must change city voting cycle, add term limits
by Councillor John
Tobin
Commentary:
A tale of two very different election days
by Matt O'Malley
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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