In recent decades, suburban towns have doubled down on the status quo, or made zoning even more restrictive, all but guaranteeing that single-family home prices will remain shockingly high.
While ongoing roofing work seeks to button up the leaks in Humphreys Art Studios at Uphams Corner, the second phase of New Atlantic Development’s plan to save the studios – which includes a new 21-unit affordable housing development – is underway. “This has already been given a thumbs up,” said Catherine Infantino, of New Atlantic. “Part of the effort now is reminding people
Melvin B. Miller and Yawu Miller. Bill Forry photo The Bay State Banner, the weekly newspaper based in Dorchester Lower Mills that has been laser-focused on Boston’s communities of color since its foundation in 1965, was sold on Feb. 28 to a new ownership team. In one sense, the transfer means the end of an era as the Banner’s co-founder, Melvin B. Miller, will no longer have
Immigration as political issue … Bertie’s back … Biden’s running again WICKLOW – When I wrote in this space at Christmas, there were widespread protests in Ireland at the government’s often hastily conceived moves to house thousands of refugees and protection seekers from Ukraine and beyond in hotels and other unused or underused facilities. The most prominent of these
When I close my eyes, I still smell chocolate! That was an essential aspect of life growing up in Dorchester Lower Mills in the years after World War II. Until the Walter Baker Chocolate Company was subsumed into a major national firm, the chocolate factory operated in the 1950s not very differently than it had for many decades prior. Hardworking men and a few women from