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WEBThe latest barber shop atrocity rattles nerves, raises questions. Last week’s brazen double shooting inside a Four Corners barber shop, which left 20-year-old Elijah Ricardo Clunie of Dorchester dead and a second man wounded, has the city on edge. While Boston’s crime rate is down overall...
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WEBScobie’s Café & Bar, Boston’s newest Irish pub and restaurant, opened its doors and pulled its first pints for the public on Sept. 6. Husband-and-wife owners John and Anne Lydon have created a space that seeks to ...
Member of violent local gang sentenced to seven years in federal …
WEBMember of violent local gang sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Joshua Teixeira was only 2 when Nardo Lopes fatally stabbed Bobby Mendes in 1995, setting off years of murderous violence in Dorchester's Cape Verdean community. That violence and the lure of profits from trafficking drugs, guns and women eventually swept Teixeira up. Last ...
Lit Drop | A changing of the guard, and a name with deep roots in ...
WEBFeb 14, 2023 · In 1976, South Boston’s Michael Joseph Donovan won a nine-way Democratic primary for the down-ballot job of Suffolk Superior Court Clerk for Civil Business. He was the youngest person ever elected to the position, and over the next forty-six years and eight elections, he faced few opponents. But Donovan has quietly retired from the job, which paid $164,000 in 2022, and since
Projects dominating Dot neighborhoods; residences are rising at ...
WEBJan 26, 2022 · Frank Baker remembers that when he was first elected as a city councillor in 2011 the area around Dorchester Avenue and Hancock Street was in rough shape, featuring a meth lab, prostitutes, and johns at the prominent neighborhood intersection. A crane towers over that area today with new buildings and a new village, including an underground garage, taking shape below it.
Savin Hill Park: A monument to civic persistence - Dorchester
WEBAug 4, 2022 · Last Sunday (July 31), dozens gathered atop Savin Hill to hear more about the history of the park and the Neponset band of the Massachusett tribe that lived hereabouts before European settlers arrived in 1630. The event, sponsored by the Dorchester Historical Society and the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association, featured remarks by Thomas Green, a Bay State native and
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WEBFederal judge kicks redistricting back to City Council. The City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a US federal judge ordered on Monday. Councillors verbally sparred for months last fall before a 9-4 vote on a map that sliced up Dorchester-based...
'Save this hospital!' Urgent calls for Carney intervention at packed ...
WEBAug 14, 2024 · An overflow crowd of 500-plus people packed Florian Hall on Tuesday night for a hearing on the proposed closure of Carney Hospital. The public meeting, sponsored by the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH), is a required step before the hospital’s planned shutdown on Aug. 31 – an outcome that many speakers who attended pledged to block, if possible, although Dr. Robbie
DPH deems Carney Hospital 'essential,' but refuses to delay or halt ...
WEBAug 20, 2024 · While DPH insists that it cannot force Steward to keep Carney open past Aug. 31, it itemizes improvements to the closure plan in a 17-step comment section that includes "directives" on how the state wants Steward to proceed before closing. State Sen. Nick Collins, who has reviewed the DPH response, called …
Cristo Rey Boston High School graduates 38 - Dorchester
WEBJun 15, 2023 · Cristo Rey Boston High School in Savin Hill celebrated its graduation on Sat., June 3, at St. Teresa of Calcutta in Dorchester. This year’s graduating class of 38 students will attend eighteen colleges and universities across the country, including Boston College, Northeastern University, University of Dayton, and the …
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