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 Codman Square NDC hosted the annual Caribbean Jerk Festival, with scores of residents taking in the best cuisine and music from the neighborhood.
Suffolk County prosecutors will bring charges against a 16-year-old juvenile from Braintree next month for a May assault that left another teenager with severe injuries to his face.
The issue involved MassBiologics – an agency run by the University of Massachusetts’s Chan Medical School – and whether or not it will move ahead with plans to expand its existing campus on Walk Hill Street.
When egg prices shot up dramatically earlier this year, the Urban Farming Institute (UFI) in Mattapan decided to take a crack at providing its neighbors with a more affordable option for the popular product. For 14 weeks, the group sold discounted eggs for just $3 per dozen.
The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation hosted the annual Caribbean Jerk Festival on the lawn of the Second Church in Codman Square last Saturday with scores of residents taking in the best cuisine and music from the neighborhood.
A property owner’s preliminary plan to build out as many as two dozen additional housing units on a Minot Street lot that includes an existing two-family house is stirring early opposition among some neighbors, who are calling for more transparency if the project proceeds.
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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