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Thursday, December 27, 2007
MATTAPAN TROLLEYS BACK ON THE RAILS
Service along
the MBTA's Mattapan High Speed Trolley line went back on the
rails last Saturday. The trolley service had been replaced
by shuttle buses for the last year as the T worked to make
renovations at the two terminals on either end of the
trolley line, Ashmont and Mattapan Square. The T is also
making upgrades at the trolley stops. That work will
continue through the spring. Photo by Ed Forry
TOP STORIES
Sydney
Hanlon's Courthouse
The first justice at
Dorchester's busy district court says she's still learning
new things about her job - more than 10 year after taking
charge at the Washington Street courthouse.
UMass
trustees debate merits of campus expansion,
dorms
Elected
leaders discuss picks for president
Port
Norfolk activist Mike Leahy dies after heart
attack
Anti-violence
grants go to local orgs
Ashmont
Grill gets kudos for going
Green
The
top ten biggest local stories of
'07
The Reporter's picks for
the most important neighborhood stories of the last
year.
Crime
down, but youth violence and unsolved murders take
toll
A look back in the year in
crime and punishment.
Robbery
at convenience store ends in
shooting
Locals
put stamp on First Night
Ark-inspired
building on Blue Hill to anchor near
Zoo
A new building designed to
resemble an ark will soon rise on a vacant corner of Blue
Hill Avenue near the Franklin Park Zoo.
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Special
Reports
Key
Catholic school advisor sees "renaissance"
ahead
John Fish, the
CEO of Suffolk Construction who is a member of a committee
overhauling Dorchester and Mattapan's Catholic school
system, laid out his vision for the project's future- and
addressed some lingering questions about the reconstruction
of local school buildings in an interview with the
Reporter.
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.
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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Dorchester
History
by
Peter F. Stevens
Artwork
courtesy of Celia McDonough
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