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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An impressive showcase of vintage cars and trucks is planned for this Sunday (Sept. 7) in Dorchester Park.
Rainesi Gonzalez Soto of Dorchester has been awarded a prestigious academic scholarship from the Jennison Charitable Foundation in the amount of $15,000 to support her tuition at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she plans to major in finance.
A group of about 30 Eversource employees left their daily business tasks behind to get down and dirty last Tuesday (Aug.19) as volunteers at The Food Project’s West Cottage St. farm, fanning out around Uphams Corner to clean up the Dudley Street Greenhouse, fill raised garden beds on North Ave, and harvest squash and dragon tongue beans at the Langdon Street site.
The Codman Square Farmer’s Market welcomed multiple farm stands, a cooking demonstration, and a group of aerialists who performed in Rev. Loesch/Wainwright Park on Saturday morning and afternoon as part of a program sponsored by the organization Dorchester Speak for the Trees.
Ashmont Nursery School is back open in its familiar space on Washington Street and looking to fill some vacant seats. The school had to relocate temporarily after a man— apparently intoxicated— rammed through its wall on the night of Jan. 22.
Two Boston-based educators are leading the charge to standardize the Cape Verdean Kriolu by authoring a dictionary that they hope can be used to teach the language more broadly.
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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