http://www.dotnews.com Dorchester Reporter is the weekly newspaper covering Boston's largest neighborhood. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:15 GMT http://www.webrss.com/ Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. http://www.webrss.com/ bforry@dotnews.com http://www.dotnews.comhttp://www.dotnews.comCity Councillor Michael Ross will succeed Dorchester's Maureen Feeney as the next council president next year through a unique agreement that will make his chief rival for the job, Councillor Steve Murphy, the body's vice-president. The arrangement was disclosed on Wednesday, just hours after the Reporter's website broke the news that Ross had lined up the seven votes he needs to win the presidency. http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=2059http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=2059Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis this week told a gathering of civic leaders that he would order more police patrols to begin Tuesday in Greater Neponset, part of a beefed-up policing presence aimed at curbing what many residents say has been an uptick in violence and delinquency in that part of Dorchester.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1904http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1904Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Since the election of 1974, the Second Suffolk District has been all but officially maintained for a black office-holder. After almost 16 years in office, and even in her post-election speech, Wilkerson was still trying to reconcile the district's historic black identity with its current multi-racial population - encompassing Roxbury and part of Dorchester, along with the Back Bay, the South End, Bay Village, Chinatown, the Fenway, Mission Hill, and Jamaica Plain. On the one hand, Wilkerson took issue with a voter who criticized her for representing only Roxbury. On the other hand, there were the figures showing it was possible to get elected in the district without carrying the black vote. "I think what this proves is that you could be a state senator without representing a good core of this community," said Wilkerson said on election night, "and that makes me sick."http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1903http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1903Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Stung by a 228-vote loss in the Democratic primary, state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson this week confirmed that if a recount effort fails, she will run a sticker campaign to retain her seat in the November 4th the general election. Gintautas Dumcis reports.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1902http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1902Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT At a meeting in Cleary Square's E-18 station house in Hyde Park last Thursday, Roslindale residents beat back a proposal to shift a section of their neighborhood just west of Mt. Hope Cemetery into Mattapan's District B-3, but the new Olmsted Green development in E-18 - which B-3 Captain James Claiborne can see from the steps of his station - may still be absorbed. Neighborhood allegiances and natural boundaries played heavily into the debate.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1578http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1578Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT After one year, Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses' new focus on shepherding Dot's youth onto the college track is bearing fruit, says director Mark Culliton. In what was once called FDNH's GED program - but now is referred to as college prep 0- 14 former high school dropouts have entered college.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1577http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1577Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Bent over her desk in Room 342, Anizia Piris is preparing for the start of the 2008-2009 school year. Today, the 12-year teaching veteran will start a new job as a math instructor at the long troubled and now newly refurbished Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Grove Hall. When the school bell rings this morning it will usher in the first students the Washington Street building has seen since a massive rehabilitation project began in December 2006. The rehab, which was initially projected to cost $42 million and ended up costing $49.5 million, includes new computer and science labs, new furniture, a new cafeteria, visual arts rooms, dance studios, and music rooms. Aesthetic repairs were also made, including new doors and paint, window repairs, and new student lockers. The boldest aspect of the rehabilitation was the construction of a four-story wing of the school that houses a gymnasium and a new high school library. In January 2009, the Grove Hall library is scheduled to move to the second floor of the new wing. The Grove Hall Community Center will open on the bottom floor that same month. All told, 65,000 square feet of space were added to the Burke.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1576http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1576Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT On Tuesday morning at nine, teachers, administrators and clergy of the Pope John Paul II Academy gathered at St. Mark's Church on Dorchester Avenue to celebrate a new school year, and what they term a new beginning for Catholic education in urban centers across the United States. Full story by Pete Stidman.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1575http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1575Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Boston Police, acting on intelligence that suggests rival gangs may try to attack each other at Saturday's Caribbean Festival in Roxbury and Dorchester, have mounted an aggressive campaign to detain gang members and deploy video surveillance in an effort to prevent the violence.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1297http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1297Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Abandoning paid police details in city neighborhoods is a bad idea.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1295http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1295Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Dorchester's Mike Shaw, who recently relocated to a neighborhood of Beijing, has a front-row seat for the biggest sporting event in the world.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1294http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1294Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT The city of Boston's Community Change Card hasn't quite taken off, but — as News Editor Pete Stidman writes — it has real potential.http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1293http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1293Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Chris Lovett continues his coverage of the foreclosure crisis in Dorchester and its impacts on the neighborhood's signature three-decker housing stock. http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1292http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1292Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT Dorchester's first ever beach festival was a sun-splashed affair. http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1266http://www.webrss.com/openfeed.php?fid=2430&iid=1266Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58 GMT