Boston Police command staff led by Commissioner Michael Cox met with neighbors in the basement of the Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church last Thursday night for a briefing on crime trends in the Area C-11 district, which includes much of Dorchester eest of Washington Street. The meeting, billed as a “Community Compstat,” drew about 50 people, along with a group of 20 uniformed officers.
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Veteran Boston journalist and election expert Chris Lovett joined Bill Forry from the Dorchester Reporter and DotLife host Erin Caldwell to highlight the week’s news, including election results, Mayor Wu’s State of the Schools address, Savin Bar + Kitchen takes down its Whitey/Flemmi decor, and what’s next for Morrissey Boulevard.
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The Boston Teachers Union (BTU) welcomed thousands of Boston families to its 12th Annual Back to School Fair at its headquarters in Dorchester on Sat., Sept. 27.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, who visited Dorchester’s Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate on Wednesday afternoon for a discussion focused on “civility” in the nation’s political discourse, denounced violence and extremism on both sides of the American divide …
The senior advisor to Mayor Wu who has been overseeing high priority construction projects at White Stadium and Long Island has left City Hall for a new job as deputy chief of special projects at the Boston Water and Sewer Commission.
There’s no shortage of foot traffic in Codman Square’s business district, but destinations have dwindled for shoppers as commercial vacancies have accelerated at a pace that has community stakeholders concerned.
A large Boston Fire Dept. response is ongoing at this hour at 2 Morrissey Blvd. in Dorchester, part of a Santander Bank complex. A reporter on the scene for the Dorchester Reporter says firefighters are investigating a fire in a
Mattapan’s Canterbury Brook might as well be the Loch Ness Monster. Few have actually seen it, no one is quite sure if it’s real, and it disappears right after it appears.
By Sunday, as talks percolated in Washington about a potential deal to reopen the federal government, both Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Gov. Maura Healey were promising more SNAP litigation
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