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The field of candidates aiming to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner started to take shape this week, with the heavy favorite announcing his entrance and another candidate following shortly afterwards.
As expected, on Monday, Tito Jackson, a top... Read more |
UMass-Boston officials were reminded this week that parts of the campus are crumbling – literally.
The Columbia Point campus’s chief of facilities management said in a Thursday e-mail to Chancellor Keith Motley and other university officials that a 385-... Read more |
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Dissatisfaction over the Boston School Committee’s decision to close nine schools and merge eight others into four has stirred chatter about having elected committee members on the mayorally-appointed panel.
Boston shifted to a seven-member appointed... Read more |
The US Census Bureau has confirmed what the state’s top political leaders were dreading: Massachusetts will be losing a Congressional seat, one of ten states in the nation to do so, according to figures the bureau released on Tuesday.
Lawmakers will turn... Read more |
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The Boston Police Department reports a man who went to see his girlfriend and their child last night wound up getting beaten, dragged through the street and threatened with a knife by her new boyfriend and two accomplices Monday night.
Police say that... Read more |
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 21, 2010…. As widely predicted, Massachusetts will lose at least one of its 10 seats in Congress during the 2012 election cycle based on population counts collected during the 2010 Census, according to data released from the U.S... Read more |
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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 20, 2010... As leaders on Beacon Hill anxiously awaited the Tuesday release of 2010 Census population totals, those soon to be involved in the complicated and likely contentious process of carving up the state’s political... Read more |
UMass-Boston concrete falls: No one was hurt when this 385 pound section fell in an unoccupied area of Wheatley Hall on Thursday.UMass-Boston officials were reminded this week that parts of the campus are crumbling – literally.
The Columbia Point campus’s... Read more |
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The owner of a Lower Mills liquor store nabbed for selling beer to a Quincy teen vows to keep it from happening again.
Police spotted what appeared to be a suspiciously young guy load an 18-pack of Coors Light in the back of his car on Nov. 6 and drive... Read more |
The First Parish Church steeple came down in 2006. Bill Forry photo
First Parish Church, which dates back to Dorchester’s original settlement in 1630, plans to auction off most of its historic silver collection to help pay for a $5 million restoration... Read more |
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Emmett Folgert: On alert for alternatives
Editor's Note: This article is part of a larger series of stories on the same subject that was published in the Dec. 16, 2010 edition of the Dorchester Reporter.
After 30 years of ground-level violence... Read more |
Tina Chery: A pioneer in citywide efforts to curb violence, Chery's son Louis was killed in a December 1993 shooting, not far from her current office in Fields Corner..
The numbers are deeply disturbing: Nearly eighty percent of the shootings in Boston in... Read more |
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Fields Corner: 1510-1514 Dorchester Ave. at Fields Corner Photo courtesy Fields Corner Main Street
A non-profit preservation group and the city’s Fields Corner Main Street program are joining with the owner of a Dorchester Ave. commercial building to... Read more |
Boston is known as a sports town, teeming with homegrown athletes throughout the city in both school and neighborhood sports programs. Behind these spirited athletes are their dedicated coaches, focused on fostering their players’ abilities on the field... Read more |
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State lawmakers are weighing in on the possibility that a labor dispute will cancel the National Football League’s 2011 season, lobbying the owner of the Patriots and arguing it could negatively impact the local economy if the labor dispute isn’t settled... Read more |
Boston Public Library officials and developers of the former St. Kevin’s school property are pushing ahead with a tentative plan to relocate the Uphams Corner branch library within one of their new residential buildings planned for the site.
The proposed... Read more |
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BPD Commissioner Ed Davis
Editor's Note: This article is part of a larger series of stories that was published in the Dec. 16, 2010 edition of the Dorchester Reporter.
Commissioner Davis says the increase in homicides this year reflects a “troubling trend... Read more |
Editor's Note: This article is part of a larger series of articles published in the Dec. 16 Dorchester Reporter.
Reverend Eugene Rivers earned a name for himself in Boston 18 years ago when he became one of the architects of the “Boston Miracle,” a plan... Read more |
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George Chip Greenidge
Editor's Note: This article is part of a larger series of stories that was published in the Dec. 16, 2010 edition of the Dorchester Reporter.
George “Chip” Greenidge believes the residents of Dorchester and Mattapan can stem the... Read more |
Tina Chery
Editor's Note: This article is part of a larger series of stories that was published in the Dec. 16, 2010 edition of the Dorchester Reporter.
At 15, Louis David Brown had great plans for his life, including going to college, becoming an... Read more |
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