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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Presented by Fowler Epstein Farm, this afternoon at 487 Norfolk Street in Mattapan- fresh local produce, great vibes, and live music! Come for the farm-fresh fruits and veggies, stay for the community spirit and tunes. Happening Friday, 7/18 from 1:30-5pm.
The Caribbean community in Massachusetts will stand tall in the midst of “the callousness and the aggression” aimed at them by the federal administration, a former longtime Boston lawmaker told a crowd at the State House on Thursday.
An enthusiastic group of neighbors and officials gathered late last month to mark the groundbreaking of Hamilton at Mt. Everett – a 36-unit affordable housing development for older adults at 25-33 Hamilton St.
Nicole LaChapelle, the mayor of Easthampton since 2018 and a participant in various Healey administration initiatives in recent years, will replace Brian Arrigo as the new head of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
After a more than two-year tenure in which she charted the state’s path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh will step down and hand the reins over to Undersecretary Kiame Mahaniah.
The Codman Square Health Center is having community discussions about installing a vending machine at their Codman Square campus that would dispense the drug Narcan, an over-the-counter nasal spray as of 2023 that is dispensed in much the same way as nasal allergy sprays and reverses the effects of an opioid overdose when administered.
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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