Thursday, December 6, 2007
New
centralized Catholic school system
unveiled
Kindergarten
students at St. Peter's School on Bowdoin Street finished
their schoolday on Tuesday. Last week, Cardinal Sean
O'Malley revealed that St. Peter's will be one of three
Dorchester school campuses that will not re-open next fall,
as the Archdiocese restructures its grammar school system.
Full
story.
Timeline:
A look back at the major milestones in Catholic
Dorchester
Editorial:
Many big questions remain for parents,
students
and Judge
Jim Dolan bades farewell to Sister
Chips
TOP STORIES
Civic
group green lights redevelopment of old St. William
church
Viet-AID's plans
to raze the church complex and build a mix of housing and
retail got a boost at Monday's meeting of the Columbia-Savin
Hill Civic Association.
Debate
bubbles, but civic activists table a vote on UMass
dorms
MBTA
slow to think rapid on Fairmount
Line
An old debate
over whether an existing commuter rail line should be
transformed into a high-speed line like the Red or Orange
lines continues as residents review the latest plans for a
new station in Four Corners.
Health
centers make final push for
insurance
The neighborhood's health centers unite to draw more
into the Connector.
Meetings
to reveal latest news on Neponset water,
dams
City
document outlines future for open space
plans
Dot
man is behind the First Night
button
Merchants
hope for sales boost from
holidays
Property
tax drop seen in new year
Police
seek help in missing person case
The Boston Police Department is asking for the public's help
in finding Atuey Pena, a 51-year-old man from Dorchester.
Pena's wife reported that her husband has been missing since
October 12, 2007. His wife last saw him at 12 p.m. on
October 4 at 110 Rosetter Street. Pena is reported to be in
good mental and physical condition.Pena is a Black Hispanic
male, stands 5 feet 7 inches tall, and weighs 190
pounds. He has black hair, brown eyes, and was last
seen in the area of the Andrew Square MBTA station.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Pena is
asked to contact detectives at District C-11 at
617-343-4335.
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
Neighborhood
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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
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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