John and Anne Lydon intend to bring a touch of Ireland’s West Coast to Dorchester’s most identifiably Irish business district by early next year. The couple, who own and manage the gateway commercial building at 512 Gallivan Blvd., are busy supervising the construction of a restaurant and pub inside a first-floor space.
City councillors have five maps in their hands as they seek to redraw the political boundaries of the nine districts. But they still haven’t fully decided which route they want to take. Most of the 13-member Council met on Friday inside City Hall for nearly four hours, hearing from a Tufts University expert on redistricting and taking a knife to districts as a portrait of
Unhappy with his city council colleagues’ efforts to redraw the political boundaries of the nine City Council district seats, Dorchester Councillor Frank Baker said he plans to file his own map. The councillors and their four at-large colleagues are facing a Nov. 7 deadline to get a map in place a year before the 2023 municipal election. Three maps have already been proposed –