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Thursday, January 10, 2008

GOING PUBLIC
A beginner gets schooled on BPS choices, kindergarten

Dorchester's Kim Willingham counsels city parents on their choices when entering the Boston Public School system. She is shown in front of the Campbell Resource Center off Dorchester Ave., where registration for the '08-'09 school year got underway last Friday. Reporter editor Bill Forry writes on the experience of signing up his own four-year old. Photo by Bill Forry

TOP STORIES

Over mayor's wishes, President Feeney plans civic summit

Youth builders push green envelope

City may put homeownership developments on pause

New year opens with two murders in Dot
Comment: Moms on both sides of the guns meet to find peace

UMass defends dorms at Columbia-Savin Hill

Pine Street to take control of Savin Hill elderly home

New library pushed as plus for Burke High, Grove Hall

Columbia Point Master Plan Task Force chosen

Low-ceiling on Freeport bridge snares trucks

COURTHOUSE ROUND-UP
Convict pleads guilty to 1995 slaying

Friends plan "time" to help barber, union man

Tiny Burt St. development awakens old grudges


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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.

Hockey hero O'Sullivan trades blades for patrolman's badge

Chris O'Sullivan, of the well-known Neponset hockey clan, has crossed a new blue line. The former NHL player was sworn in as a Boston Police officer last month. O'Sullivan is shown above after his swearing-in ceremony with three of his brothers (l-r) Tommy, Shaun and Peter. At right, Chris is shown wearing no. 19 during his stint with the Calgary Flames. Photos courtesy O'Sullivan family/ Calgary Flames Hockey Club.
Plus: Latest Dot puck prospect headed for the Heights





On the Waterfront
The good, the bad, and the unfinished work of
reclaiming Dorchester's shoreline 

Dorchester History
by Peter F. Stevens
Artwork courtesy of Celia McDonough
 

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