Dorchester Reporter
New owners of former C. F. Donovan’s plan ‘family’ establishment
Gintautas Dumcius, News Editor
C.F. Donovan's: Sold at auction today for $875,000 to owner of McKenna's Cafe.The site of the former C. F. Donovan’s restaurant was sold Thursday morning at a sidewalk auction to the owner of McKenna’s, the café across the street, and a local financial planner.
The winning bid for the former restaurant, which longtime owner Arthur Donovan lost to foreclosure, was $875,000. The property comes with a liquor license, a tax lien from the state Department of Revenue, $6,297 in back taxes and outstanding water bills and sewer charges totaling $2,731.
“We’re doing it for the neighborhood,” said Ken Osherow, president of At Home Real Estate Group, which is located next to McKenna’s café. Osherow, who is also planning to open an ice cream shop down the street, said the restaurant will have a “family” atmosphere.
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In the end, no big deal
By James W. Dolan, Special to the Reporter
OK, so I was wrong.
The acceptance of gay marriage in Massachusetts has been swift and seamless. The earth didn’t shake, the sky didn’t fall, and skeptics, like me, must admit there have been no adverse consequences.
A supporter of civil unions, I believed marriage was a term that should only be applied to heterosexual unions for historic, moral, and religious reasons. That for obvious reasons the union between persons of the same sex was different; not less loving or lasting or fulfilling, only different.
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Retired firefighter Miller recognized as a pioneer
Alex Owens, Special to the Reporter
The Boston City Council honored Karen Miller, a pioneering African-American firefighter and resident of Dorchester during their council meeting last Wednesday. Miller was Boston’s first African-American female firefighter.
“We wanted to thank [Miller] for her commitment to diversity,” said City Councillor Ayanna Pressley in an interview. Pressley, along with City Councillor Mark Ciommo, was behind Miller’s recognition.
“Just by her sheer example she inspires people, especially African-American girls,” Pressley added.
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The good news: Baseball Hall looking at electoral revamp
It’s a bit of a joke, however in poor taste. Or it may be a stunning illustration of the cynicism that’s frequently invaded the issue. Or maybe even an honest effort to reform a process that has too long been allowed to bump along decade after decade with some odd patch-work, here or there.
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The 16-team Safe Summer Streets Basketball League
The 16-team Safe Summer Streets Basketball League will complete regular season play tomorrow night before heading into the post-season tournament on Saturday, August 14th. During the past week games were played in the evening hours with Monday’s opener of the 4-team Girls division seeing the Lady Cavs defeating St. Ann’s in a nail-biter 40-39. Candace Andrews (21) led the Lady Cavs while St. Ann’s was led by Lauren Cavaleri (14). In the second game Kayla Cox (19) led the way for the Lady Zags as they defeated the Lady Tigers 36-27. The Lady Tigers were led by Markiah Monteiro (13).
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Solar array adds green power to BC High campus
Jonathan Rodriguez, Special to the Reporter
BC High Solar Panels: BC High's Brian Maher with the school's new solar panels.Boston College High School is taking a giant step in the green direction this summer with the installation of nearly 870 solar panels on the roofs of its buildings. The project, set to be completed in early September, will make BC High home to the largest single-building solar array in Boston.
The expansive array covering 25,629 square feet of rooftop on the campus will produce up to 40 percent of the school’s daily electric power with the panels generating almost 200 kilowatts at a given moment. The environmental benefits of such a system will be like planting nearly 24, 000 trees and conserving around 14, 000 barrels of oil.
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Defining the divide
Future historians looking for some defining evidence of the political divide that exists in this country will need to look no further that the votes that took place in Congress this month.
It was just last week that the impasse between Democrats and Republicans was broken and the Senate voted to approve a measure to earmark $26 billion in new federal aid to the states. The money will be targeted to prevent layoffs of teachers, health care workers, and other public employees. In the words of Democrats, it’s a “public sector job preservation” bill.
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Boston Common’s ‘Othello’ perfect intro to Shakespeare
Casual passers-by and Shakespeare newbies are applauding the current “Othello” that concludes its 18-performance run on Boston Common this Sunday, August 15. Seasoned fans of the Bard are giving more mixed reviews to the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC)’s 15th annual free outdoor production of this wrenching domestic tragedy about a black general whose marriage to a Venetian noblewoman is destroyed by a white subaltern’s plotting.
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Reporter’s Notebook: Forums are planned for House, Senate races
MassVOTE, a civic education nonprofit, is joining up with 32 other groups in sponsoring forums with candidates running in the Fifth Suffolk and Sixth Suffolk House districts. Forums on the Second Suffolk Senate district are also planned.
The details, per MassVOTE: In the Fifth Suffolk, four Democratic candidates are competing to replace former state Rep. Marie St. Fleur: high school teacher Barry Lawton, youth activist Carlos Henriquez, former state Rep. Althea Garrison and perennial candidate Roy Owens.
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Youth is served in Neponset
Inside an iceless rink on a muggy Monday afternoon, five kids shot hoops as several hundred feet away a dozen younger children played with Lego blocks. In less than an hour many of them would head outside, spreading themselves out on a small section of Garvey Park to dance, sing and act.
And starting this fall, the same kids will have a chance to participate in a new flag football league on Friday nights and Saturdays.
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No longer is he just ‘a picture on the wall’
Tara W. Merrigan, Special to the Reporter
Marine Staff Sgt. William Lynch in family photo.
Before Judy Armour and Janet Sambuceti met Roy Weaver, their most tangible connection to their uncle, Staff Sgt. William Lynch, of Dorchester and the United States Marines, was a portrait that hung in their grandmother’s living room.
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Candidate Henriquez: Running for Leroy
By Carlos Henriquez
My candidacy can be summed up in the life of a 16-year old named Leroy that I met many years ago.
Leroy was raised in the heart of our district in Dorchester’s Bowdoin/Geneva neighborhood – Boston’s ground zero of violence. Like many growing up, Leroy was raised by loving parents. But in tough neighborhoods like Bowdoin/Geneva, where drugs and gun violence are a daily occurrence, love is not enough.
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Dorchester man arrested for Roslindale fire; could be charged with additional arson cases
A Dorchester man already being tracked as a suspected arsonist was arrested Monday on charges he set a Roslindale house on fire early Monday morning, federal and city officials say.
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Dot performers among finalists for Berklee scholarships
Reporter Staff
Faraday FontimusAllbertrand PierreChristiana McMullenSix Dorchester teens will be performing in Berklee College of Music's 17th annual Berklee City Music Scholarship Concert on Tuesday, August 10, 7:30 p.m. Talented teens from the Boston area and Berklee City Music Network sites across the country will perform rock, pop, jazz, inspirational music and r&b songs. Following tradition, students will only learn of their scholarship awards when their identities are revealed from the stage at a break in the concert.
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Three stabbed in restaurant brawl; one arrest
The Boston Police Department reports three men were stabbed - one critically - in a large fight that broke out Thursday night at the Saigon Seafood Restaurant, 270 Adams St.
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Police charge man recruited kids for charity scam at local intersection
The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Dorchester man on charges he ran a bogus charity drive in which kids stood by an intersection asking for donations - which they had no intention of actually giving to a charity.
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An update on C-11 police work from your lefty correspondent
I’ve been writing this blurb for a good six plus years now and in that time we’ve gone through a lot together. The good times, the bad – and the very bad. I’ve also shared some personal information and observations and felt very comfortable doing so, as if talking face to face with an old friend. But something has been gnawing away at my conscience and I feel I must divulge this part of myself with you if we are to continue our friendship. So here goes:
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Yes, the Texas Rangers won the trade deadline competition
It is contrived, to be sure, like so many other new wrinkles in the grand old game, including expanded playoffs, wildcards, and meaningless all-star exhibitions that are allowed to determine the highly meaningful home-field advantage in the World Series.
“Even if it ain’t broke, you can still tinker with it.”
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