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Son of Codman Square
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We've all heard stories of high school and college athletes having their schoolwork and exams taken for them by other students. Cheating in and out of the classroom in order to obtain decent grades has been going on as long as,well,...
My Dorchester
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Date:
Wed, 03/06/2013 (All day)
The JFK forums are free and open to the public. Reservations for forums are strongly recommended. They guarantee a seat in the building but not the main hall....
Good and Plenty
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Definition of the word child from Encarta Dictionary: English
A young human being. A young human being between birth and puberty.*
Human Offspring. A son or daughter of human parents.
Somebody not yet of age – Somebody under a legally specified...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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A fed-up citizen grouses that three weeks after the blizzard, this space saver on East Cottage Street in Dorchester needs some D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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I don’t know about you, but there is no other food on the planet I love more than Italian. Even for an Irish lad, I consider myself pretty versed in Italian/American cuisine. Sh*tty commute aside, when I worked on the North Shore I was able to...
A DotRat's Guide to the World
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You gotta fill your need for Beastie Boys material any way you can. Why not mash it up with the Beatles….
The Beastles
Bob Cronin, known by the moniker dj BC, is a Boston-bred, Atlanta based mash-up DJ. BC’s work has been heard on radio and...
Dottie Hotties
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When the temps drop into the single digits and the snow piles high, our minds turn to comfort food and libations to warm the soul. In the most recent Boston Globe Dining Out section, writer Katie Johnston dished on one of the DottieHotties favorite new...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overruled a lower-court judge and said prosecutors could use a loaded gun found in a space behind a car dashboard during a Dorchester traffic stop as evidence against the man charged with its illegal possession....
Dottie Hotties
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… by Bekki
“A Little Snow was Here and There”
by Emily Dickinson
A little Snow was here and there
Disseminated in her Hair –
Since she and I had met and played
Decade had gathered to Decade –
But Time had added not...
Lower Dot
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A new restaurant has opened over the river in Milton to rival the high end cuisine of Dorchester. Steel & Rye is in a California-esque deconstructed space. They offer creative contemporary American cuisine. We started with the delicious picked quail...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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At least as of 6:30 p.m., no Snow Emergency or Parking Ban has been declared in Boston.
The news is unlikely to please either the East Boston resident who filed a formal complaint asking for action against somebody who "moved our space saver and stole...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Two Boston police officers who returned the fire of a man who started shooting at them on a Dorchester street in 2011 did nothing wrong, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says.
In a letter to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis on the death of...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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2/15/13 - 10:40 am
UPDATE: Photos of possible suspect released.
A man sitting in a white Mercedes outside 57 Stoughton St. was shot around 10:40 a.m.
A possible suspect is a male in a dark gray hoodie on a red Huffy bicycle, seen...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Globe reports state Rep. Marty Walsh is poised to introduce a bill - at the urging of constituent Joyce Linehan - to give the song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers the same status as the black-capped chickadee, cranberry juice and Roxbury...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Firefighter at Mather Street. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire at 49 Mather St. late last night quickly went to three alarms and sent two residents and two firefighters to the hospital. One resident was rescued from a top floor of...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Joe Cabrera photographed his Dorchester street before and after the blizzard.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Katia forwards these before and after pics.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Tania deLuzuriaga photographed her neighbor's lazy-ass space saving on Savin Hill early in the storm.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Dorchester Reporter has hired an outside editor to keep tabs of its coverage of the 1st Suffolk Senate race of Linda Dorcena Forry, whose husband, Bill, is publisher of the paper and the Boston Haitian Reporter and Mattapan Reporter.
Michael Jonas,...
Dottie Hotties
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(photo courtesy of: http://architalk-tlarson.blogspot.com)
( … but please refrain doing what’s called for in the next line of the song if you’re in public reading this; k? Thanks!)
Following on the heels of last week’s...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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2/5/13 - 7:00 pm
Police are looking for a black man, about 5'8" in a yellow hoodie and black gloves with white stripes for the armed robbery of a Vietnamese market at Adams and Centre streets. He was last seen running down Adams towards...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Just in case you were wondering.
So that leaves state reps. Nick Collins and Linda Dorcena Forry.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester) said today she will run for the 1st Suffolk state senate seat vacated all of a sudden by longtime incumbent Jack Hart last week.
Forry, 39, first won election to her current 12th Suffolk state rep's seat in...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Now that everybody's favorite scooter-riding, sticker-plastering city-council candidate has jumped into the race for the Republican nomination for the Senate. Ladies and gentlemen: Doug Bennett for US Senate.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The sad case of Tiffany Moore - the 12-year-old shot to death as she sat on a mailbox in 1988 - continues to wend its way through the court system.
A federal appeals court today ordered a new civil trial for Timothy Callahan, a homicide detectives who...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/27/13 - 4:12 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old, two 15-year-olds and a 14-year-old on charges they surrounded a couple of people at Dayton and Nixon streets around 4:10 p.m. yesterday and made off with an iPad, a wallet...
Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition
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Neponset River Greenway Sweet History Stroll along the Neponset River Saturday, February 9 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Meet at the public parking lot at Milton Landing, near 25 Wharf Street, Milton What do chocolate and the Neponset River have in common...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Boston firefighters responded to Logan Furniture, 50 Freeport St. battling what is now a three-alarm fire reported shortly after midnight. Firefighters were ordered to stay out of the building and off the roof.
The Boston Fire Department reports the...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/20/13 - 10:16 am
Boston Police report a woman suffered life-threatening injuries when shot around 10:15 a.m. today at 6 Arbutus St. in Dorchester. Brian D'Amico reports she was shot in the head.
Jeremy Harrison, 28, was arrested on...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Boston Police report officers responding to a fight involving somebody who might have had a gun found themselves confronted with an unleashed pit bull that refused to stop lunging at them.
Fearing for their safety, officers unholstered and engaged their...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Glove compartment of rental car outside Roxbury District Court on Oct. 23.
On Oct. 23 of last year, detectives who'd been listening in on the phone conversations of two gang leaders as part of a year-long investigation had to risk exposing their...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/17/13 - 9:50 pm
Boston Police report they are looking for an AR15 rifle stolen from the bedroom of a resident of 157 Intervale St. in Grove Hall yesterday.
Police say the resident returned home to find his front door unlocked and his...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Michael McCoy, 27, was arraigned in Roxbury District Court yesterday on charges of trafficking of a person for sexual servitude, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and threatening to commit a crime, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Boston Police report they are looking for Jackson Barros, 30, of Dorchester, in connection with today's early morning raids aimed at breaking up two Dorchester gangs involved in drugs and guns.
This would not be Barros's first arrest. In 2003, he was...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Several hundred Boston police officers and federal agents swarmed through Dorchester early this morning, arresting some 30 alleged members of the Woodward Avenue and Hendry Street gangs in a bid to quell violence in the Bowdoin/Geneva and Uphams Corner...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Brockton24_7 reports somebody jumped in front of an inbound Red Line train at Shawmut around 5:30 a.m. and that she was pulled out from under the second car alert and conscious. The T substituted buses between Ashmont and JFK/UMass.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/16/13 - 10:00 am
Boston Police are investigating a drive-by around 10 a.m. on Tremlett Street, around the corner from the main entrance to Dorchester District Court. The intended victim was not hit, shell casings were recovered. A...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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A woman injured during a brief but furious gun battle between a man she was talking to and police has filed a civil-rights lawsuit against the city and the police officers involved, alleging she's been left with permanent physical and mental scars...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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A Weymouth man who allegedly put a Boston cop in the hospital by dragging him with his car yesterday made bail yesterday, met his lawyer and a probation officer in court today and then skipped out before his case was called, the Suffolk County District...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Two men who forced two Livingstone Street residents back into their home at gunpoint Thursday briefly made off with a safe that contained more than $400,000 from the family business, a police source says.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office...
Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition
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With the Boston Gardeners Council, Boston Natural Areas Network is kicking off a three-part series about the importance of compost for all gardens. This first forum features Erika Rumbley, BNAN Garden Educator, introducing the critical role of compost...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/12/13 - 4:47 am
An city street worker, who is supposed to keep young teens away from gangs and violence, is scheduled for arraignment today in Dorchester District Court on charges of illegal possession of a firearm, possession of...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/13/13 - 11:56 am
Boston Police report a Weymouth man spotted buying heroin off Columbia Road in Dorchester around noon Sunday stopped for pursuing police, then drove away - dragging an officer down the street.
The officer was taken to...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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UPDATE, 11:25 p.m.: Man removed without injury to anybody.
Police and firefighters are swarming around 38 Brookview St., where a man who may have a Molotov cocktail is refusing to come out of an apartment. Brian D'Amico reports police have begun...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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Trapped resident signals firefighters with flashlight. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters are at 5 Everett Ave., where a fire called in around 4:15 p.m. trapped two people.
Firefighters got them out, suffering smoke inhalation, the...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/10/13 - 10:00 am
Boston Police report arresting two local men on charges they forced people leaving a Livingstone Street apartment yesterday morning back inside at gunpoint, ordered them to lay on the floor and then ransacked the...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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1/8/13 - 9:15 am
Two Dorchester men were ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail each today after police say they found nine weapons, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and 250 grams of cocaine in individually wrapped packages in a raid Tuesday...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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The Dorchester Reporter reports the state Department of Revenue has turned the volume down on Hi-Fi Pizza.
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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UPDATE: A second Red Line train died at Alewife; another Green Line trolley gave up the ghost, bollxing up outbound C and E service. Commuter rail? You don't want to know.
In this young year, the Red Line is now 2 for 2 in morning-commute delays due to...
Universal Hub on Dorchester
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By pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the 2003 death of Aston Dwayne Thompson, Linrose Woodbine received a sentence of 15 years, rather than risking another conviction that could have sent him to prison for the rest of his life, the Suffolk...
