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Irish Emigrant: July 29: Irish holidaymaker murdered in Spain

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:30:09 -0400

Dorchester Reporter: About Tom Brady’s contract, umpires, and ‘Major Houk’

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Here’s a handful of items beginning with the thought that in the Tom Brady contract hassle – now fast blossoming as pre-season camp arrives – we could have one of the mothers of the dubious art form in the offing. Not that we’ve been deprived of our proper share of such fun over the annals, mind you.
We’ve had money wars ranging from the entertaining (Bird & Yaz) to the sorrowful (Bobby Orr) by way of the merely ridiculous (Derek Sanderson, Hawk Harrelson, Irving Fryar) and the ruinous (Brothers Lynn, Fisk & Burleson) ad nauseam.

Dorchester Reporter: August Program Highlights

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

August Program Highlights

Dorchester Reporter: Foreclosures on pace to eclipse high ’08 levels

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Michael Norton State House News Service

Fueled by persistently high unemployment rates, completed foreclosures surged 56.7 percent over the first half of the year, placing foreclosures on pace to surpass their recent high in 2008, according to figures released Tuesday morning.

Dorchester Reporter: Hart says legislative ‘inaction is costing us dearly’ with voters

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Jim O’Sullivan, State House News Service

A gambling bill accord this week appeared unlikely, as Senate Democrats ratcheted up criticism of their House counterparts and the Senate demanded a Wednesday night deadline for a deal they could send to full votes in both chambers.

Dorchester Reporter: Revenge ‘best’ served cold

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

It has become a yearly rite of passage in this space to express great indignation whenever our beloved neighborhood gets passed over on some foolish “Best of Boston” list. This week, we’re tempted again to pound the table and flail away at our friends across the boulevard who managed to generate two “Boston’s Best” stories in one week— one saluting the region’s finest pizza, another sandwiches. You know you’ve hit the summer doldrums when the Globe is writing — and we’re editorializing— about who serves the best bratwurst in town.

Dorchester Reporter: Codman Academy actors meet the Bard in summer theatre

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Next Wednesday and Thursday, two dozen students from the Codman Academy Charter School—the majority Dorchester and Mattapan residents—will perform Shakespeare’s rollicking battle-of-the-sexes comedy, “The Taming of the Shrew” at the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts. This production marks the fifth year of an award-winning summer partnership between the school and the Huntington Theatre Company.

Dorchester Reporter: Viet-AID takes aim at youth violence in Fields Corner

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Alex Owens, Special to the Reporter

Viet-Aid, a community development organization based in Fields Corner, officially launched several new youth programs at a neighborhood meeting last Saturday.

Dorchester Reporter: Viet-AID takes aim at youth violence in Fields Corner

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Alex Owens, Special to the Reporter

Viet-Aid, a community development organization based in Fields Corner, officially launched several new youth programs at a neighborhood meeting last Saturday.

Dorchester Reporter: Self-sufficiency program expanding in Dot, Mattapan: $500,000 grant from Boston Foundation

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 -0400

Staff

The state’s largest regional provider of rental housing voucher assistance is receiving a $500,000 grant from the Boston Foundation to expand an economic self-sufficiency program into three neighborhoods along the Fairmount commuter line, including Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury.