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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...
Pizzeria plan fires up controversy in Fields Corner biz district
WEBAugust 21, 2024. A view of the 1500-block of Dorchester Avenue, where a proposal for a Papa John’s pizza storefront, at left, is now at issue. Cassidy McNeeley photo. The proposed opening of national pizza chain Papa John’s in a now-vacant Dorchester Avenue storefront continues to cook-up controversy in Fields Corner this week.
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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 ...
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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 ...
Member of violent local gang sentenced to seven years in federal …
WEBMember of violent local gang sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Joshua Teixeira was only 2 when Nardo Lopes fatally stabbed Bobby Mendes in 1995, setting off years of murderous violence in Dorchester's Cape Verdean community. That violence and the lure of profits from trafficking drugs, guns and women eventually swept Teixeira up. Last ...
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
'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
Ranked Choice Voting means more democracy - Dorchester
WEB“The cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy,” said Jane Addams who was a Progressive Era suffragette, reformer, social worker, a leader of the settlement house movement, co-founder of Hull House, philosopher, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. I would say that Ms. Addams knew something about democracy, Ms. Addams
DPH deems Carney Hospital 'essential,' but refuses to delay or halt ...
WEBAug 20, 2024 · While DPH insists that it cannot force Steward to keep Carney open past Aug. 31, it itemizes improvements to the closure plan in a 17-step comment section that includes "directives" on how the state wants Steward to proceed before closing. State Sen. Nick Collins, who has reviewed the DPH response, called …
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