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WEBThe latest barber shop atrocity rattles nerves, raises questions. Last week’s brazen double shooting inside a Four Corners barber shop, which left 20-year-old Elijah Ricardo Clunie of Dorchester dead and a second man wounded, has the city on edge. While Boston’s crime rate is down overall...
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WEBScobie’s Café & Bar, Boston’s newest Irish pub and restaurant, opened its doors and pulled its first pints for the public on Sept. 6. Husband-and-wife owners John and Anne Lydon have created a space that seeks to ...
Mattapan | Dorchester Reporter
WEBOwner of Mattapan plumbing-supply company gets four months in prison for cheating on taxes to buy gold and silver. A federal judge last week sentenced the owner of Economy Plumbing and Heating Supply on Morton Street in Mattapan to four months in prison, a year of probation, restitution of $2.96 million and a fine of $200,000 for his guilty ...
Lit Drop | A changing of the guard, and a name with deep roots in ...
WEBFeb 14, 2023 · In 1976, South Boston’s Michael Joseph Donovan won a nine-way Democratic primary for the down-ballot job of Suffolk Superior Court Clerk for Civil Business. He was the youngest person ever elected to the position, and over the next forty-six years and eight elections, he faced few opponents. But Donovan has quietly retired from the job, which paid $164,000 in 2022, and since
The Codman Square Story: Where 'nonprofit innovation' wins the …
WEBJun 2, 2021 · Codman Square has an interesting story to share. Once the town center of Dorchester, where its Town Hall was located, it became a major commercial center in pre-annexation Dorchester, and remained a vibrant business area into the 1970s. Then, a combination of massive population loss, disinvestment, demographic change, …
'Save this hospital!' Urgent calls for Carney intervention at packed ...
WEBAug 14, 2024 · An overflow crowd of 500-plus people packed Florian Hall on Tuesday night for a hearing on the proposed closure of Carney Hospital. The public meeting, sponsored by the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH), is a required step before the hospital’s planned shutdown on Aug. 31 – an outcome that many speakers who attended pledged to block, if possible, although Dr. Robbie
J’ouvert route changed for Saturday’s Caribbean Carnival
WEBAug 21, 2024 · The early-morning J’ouvert parade that kicks off the annual Boston Caribbean Carnival will take place in a new location this weekend as city leaders and event organizers seek to pre-empt any violence that has disrupted past events. Eight people were shot at last summer’s “daybreak” event on Talbot Avenue next to Franklin Field. All of the victims survived and two men were
A bookstore blooms in Fields Corner | Dorchester Reporter
WEBAug 21, 2024 · What ends up as a bookstore begins with something else, even if the idea for one bookstore in Dorchester can be sparked by another. Before moving ahead with plans for a bookstore opening later this year in Fields Corner, Bing Broderick and Porsha Olayiwola had worked together on poetry slams at the Haley House Bakery Café near Nubian Square in Roxbury, starting in 2014.
Lower Mills Was Once Center of Chocolate Universe
WEBMay 1, 2014 · Editor’s Note: On Saturday, May 10 at 1 p.m., the state’s DCR and the Dorchester Historical Society will team up to present a special “Sweet History Stroll” to explore the former Baker Chocolate Factory site and learn about the sweet history of Lower Mills for those ages 10 and up. Meet at the public parking lot in Milton Lower Mills, beside the Milton Yacht Club at 36 Wharf
Politics | Dorchester Reporter
WEBBiden, Trump win in Boston, statewide. Boston voters went to the polls on Tuesday to complete balloting for the presidential primary. President Joe Biden was, by far, the top vote getter, receiving 40,141 votes or 77 percent of the those cast by those who picked a Democratic ballot.
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