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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...
'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
Rep. Lynch urges action from Steward leaders after visits to two ...
WEBFeb 21, 2024 · One day after Gov. Maura Healey urged Steward Health Care's leader to transfer ownership of the system's nine hospitals-including Dorchester' Carney Hospital– Congressman Stephen F. Lynch visited two Steward-owned facilities in Norwood and Brockton to call attention to local concerns about Steward's financial crisis and the collateral damage it is causing.
There’s still time to offer ideas for city’s ‘participatory’ budget
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The deadline to submit proposals for Boston’s first-ever Participatory Budget has been extended to this Thursday (Aug. 15) giving Boston residents more time to suggest how city leaders should spend a small slice – $2 million – of the city’s $4.65 billion budget for 2024-2025. So far, the city has received more than 600 submissions, according to Renato Castelo, the director of
Former Rep. Carvalho jumps into race for District 4 council
WEBApr 27, 2021 · Former State Rep. Evandro Carvalho has jumped into the crowded field of candidates hoping to succeed Councillor Andrea Campbell in District 4. The Fuller Street resident — who represented the Fifth Suffolk district from 2014 to 2019— is the only former elected official currently seeking the district seat, which Campbell will vacate as …
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Dot families given most help from MetroHousing/Boston last year
WEBJan 18, 2018 · The non-profit worked with 1,500 families around the greater Boston area last year, offering nearly $4 million in aid. Of that, $1.3 million went to 525 Dorchester families, by far the highest percentage of recipients in the region. Executive Director Chris Norris noted that the outlay for Dorchester homes last year was not a new trend.
$3.5m from CPA eyed for Dot, Mattapan | Dorchester Reporter
WEBFeb 24, 2021 · In the latest round of the city’s Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding, Mayor Martin Walsh and the Community Preservation Committee have itemized more than $25.5 million in grants, including nearly $3.5 million set aside for projects in Dorchester and Mattapan. Walsh’s recommendations were approved by the committee this month and will next be reviewed by the city council,
Judge, Rollins combine to clear Sean Ellis of his last conviction
WEBMay 13, 2021 · Sean Ellis, who spent more than 20 years in prison for the 1993 killing of Boston police detective John Mulligan, is no longer a convicted felon. That conviction was overturned in 2015 after the detectives who investigated the crime were accused of their own illegal activities. Prosecutors declined to try Ellis a fourth time. Despite that reversal, Ellis still had a single gun
A story about Dot man as a Nazi agent in Copley Square
WEBBy Thomas F. Mulvoy Jr,. Associate Editor. March 9, 2022. During the late 1930s, a 30-something man who was living in Dorchester’s Savin Hill neighborhood and worshipping at St. Margaret’s Church, joined up with a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer masquerading as an official in his country’s consulate on Beacon Street in Boston in a sub ...