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 non-profit Parties from Above staged its second annual Back-to-School Fashion Show at Dorchester’s Strand Theatre last Thursday, just ahead of the Back-to-School rush.
The Conservatory Lab Charter School, which has converted its old Lower School building on Hancock Street – once a nursing home – into a first-rate school facility, welcomed some 225 students, most of them from Dorchester and Mattapan, into their new digs last Tuesday morning in the kickoff to a new school term.
Neighbors are planning a day-long block party along Pleasant Street for this Saturday (Sept. 6) with the street closed to vehicles from Trescott to Stoughton streets from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
By Cassidy McNeely and Seth Daniel
No one day shines a brighter light on the rental housing market in the city of Boston than Sept. 1, as thousands of people — largely college-aged students and young professionals — make the move into new quarters.
A renovated city-owned park in the heart of Codman Square is turning heads this week as the fences came down and residents celebrated its opening with a Labor Day community BBQ on Monday.
Polls are now closed across Boston in the preliminary election for mayor and city council.
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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