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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Parents of students in the Sumner and Philbrick schools in Roslindale were ambivalent in 2022 when Boston Public Schools officials announced the school communities would merge. The district has merged and closed dozens of schools over the last 20 years and the processes have often left parents and students angered and disillusioned.
With Massachusetts facing a critical shortage of primary care providers, community health facilities like Dorchester’s Codman Square Health Center (CSHC) are trying to fill in the gaps in the neighborhood.
Boston’s bike share system is expanding throughout Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, with 20 new Bluebikes stations to be installed in those neighborhoods. City officials hosted an open house on Oct. 1 at the Marshall Community Center, where residents reviewed proposed site maps and offered feedback on potential station sites (see map below for specific locations).
MBTA General Manager Phil Eng has been tapped as the state’s interim transportation secretary effective immediately, filling in a role created Thursday by the resignation of Monica Tibbits-Nutt.
UMass Boston (UMB) reports that more in-state freshman enrolled this fall than in at least a decade, with a record number of freshman reporting to the Columbia Point campus mostly in response, officials say, to a new state funding plan, upgrades to the campus, and the quality of the institution’s educational offerings.
A rowing club on the Neponset River that was once open only to teens from Milton High School is looking for new crew members from Boston’s neighborhoods to join in its fun, adventure, and fitness activities.
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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