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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Overall crime is down by 5 percent so far this year on the Area C-11 police district that covers much of eastern Dorchester, according to the Boston Police Department, but larcenies are on the rise, many of them driven by a specific crime: shoplifting.
The 4th annual Night Market/Cho Đêm put on by Boston Little Saigon cultural district was another feather in the cap for Fields Corner and the neighborhood at-large with thousands gathering for food and entertainment in a showcase of Vietnamese American culture.
The Dot Block Diner opened for business this week, mixing a little of the old with the new in the neighborhood breakfast game and bringing the first ground-floor retail activity to the Dorchester Avenue complex that began to house hundreds of residents in 2023.
A heat emergency is now in effect for the City of Boston through Friday, July 18 with temps ranging from 91 degrees to 97 degrees in the daytime and “little relief” overnight, according to a statement from city officials.
More than ten years after the closing of the Long Island Bridge, and twenty years into a national opioid crisis, a top official in Boston has declared the city’s efforts to resolve the drug-use problem in its South End neighborhood a failure.
This 4-and-a-half year old dilute calico cat is mostly white with orange and grey patches and disappeared from Codman Hill Avenue on July 1, one day after her family moved there from Gallivan Boulevard.
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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