The Dorchester Reporter’s co-founder and publisher emeritus Ed Forry was front-and-center for Sunday’s Dorchester Day Parade. Ed, 81, was honored this year with the Dorchester Day Parade Committee’s Legacy Award, recognizing his decades of work in community journalism and neighborhood civic life.
Ed, who grew up on Vera Street on Codman Hill and has lived on Richmond Street since 1975, started The Reporter in 1983 with his late wife, Mary Casey Forry, who passed away in 2004. He remains a vital part of The Reporter’s newsroom and business operations and has recently helped to launch a new foundation named for him and Mary to support community journalism and other causes, including a new scholarship program to train young reporters from Boston’s neighborhoods. Ed has a long history covering the parade and was at times part of the committees that organized the annual celebrations.
Here, Ed is pictured outside of his alma mater, the former St. Gregory Grammar School before the start of Sunday’s parade, which he watched from the sidewalk with family, friends, and colleagues.
Photo courtesy Brianne Gore
