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WEBAt a hearing on Sept. 12, four days after an article in The Economist hailed Boston as the “safest big city in America,” District 4 (Dorchester/Mattapan) City Councillor Brian Worrell was focused on the state of a smaller...
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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 ...
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
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WEBOwner of Mattapan plumbing-supply company gets four months in prison for cheating on taxes to buy gold and silver. A federal judge last week sentenced the owner of Economy Plumbing and Heating Supply on Morton Street in Mattapan to four months in prison, a year of probation, restitution of $2.96 million and a fine of $200,000 for his guilty ...
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.
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WEBBiden, Trump win in Boston, statewide. Boston voters went to the polls on Tuesday to complete balloting for the presidential primary. President Joe Biden was, by far, the top vote getter, receiving 40,141 votes or 77 percent of the those cast by those who picked a Democratic ballot.
Wu moves to blunt tax burdens for city homeowners: ‘New …
WEBApr 3, 2024 · Faced with a sharp downturn in office property values in Boston, Mayor Wu is trying to cushion the blow of rising tax bills expected for owners of residential property. Last week, she announced plans to file a home rule petition with the Boston City Council that would allow for the shift in the tax burden to be reduced and slowed down temporarily.
J’ouvert route changed for Saturday’s Caribbean Carnival
WEBAug 21, 2024 · The early-morning J’ouvert parade that kicks off the annual Boston Caribbean Carnival will take place in a new location this weekend as city leaders and event organizers seek to pre-empt any violence that has disrupted past events. Eight people were shot at last summer’s “daybreak” event on Talbot Avenue next to Franklin Field. All of the victims survived and two men were
Long before Salem, Dorchester executed its own 'witch'
WEBBut decades before Salem began its bloody purge, Dorchester was the site of an apparent "witch" execution. In 1648, eighteen years after Dorchester's first English settlers arrived, Alice Lake was arrested right here in Dorchester for witchcraft and, according to historical documents recently uncovered by a distant relative, was executed. The ...
The Reporter turns 40 this year | Dorchester Reporter
WEBJun 1, 2023 · The Dorchester Reporter family is celebrating our 40th anniversary this year. Founded by my parents, Ed Forry and Mary Casey Forry, in a spare bedroom of my childhood home on Richmond Street, the newspaper started as a monthly publication in 1983. I was ten years old. My sister Maureen was five. The inaugural edition of The Reporter – published in September – carried a