After weeks of acerbic arguments and backbiting over the city’s political boundaries, councillors voted 9 to 4 to send Mayor Wu a City Council map that reshapes districts anchored in Dorchester and South Boston. Councillor Frank Baker’s Dorchester-based District 3 is set to shift north, deeper into South Boston, picking up public housing developments while losing the precincts
Boston City Councillors are expected to take another run at a map that redraws the political boundaries of the city as some are calling for a halt to the process, known as redistricting. Allston-Brighton Councillor Liz Breadon on Monday released the latest map she expects to bring to the Council chamber floor for a vote on Wednesday.
A 21-year-old Dorchester man was arrested last Friday on charges connected to a shooting incident last summer that disrupted the graduation at Charlestown High School. Austilino Pereira was taken into custody by officers attached to the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force and later arraigned for several gun violations, including “discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a
Hundreds of family, friends, and acquaintances gathered at Florian Hall last Sunday (Oct. 2) for a benefit to support the Moore family of Lower Mills. The family’s patriarch, Ciarán Moore, is recovering from a traumatic brain injury suffered in a vicious assault last December 2021 in Adams Village. Irish bands played away while folks watched the New England Patriots-Green Bay
A year ago, Ciaran Moore was a man on the go – a construction foreman who loved Irish hurling and the 12 Bens Tavern and was living in Lower Mills with his wife and fully involved in raising three active children. A violent incident in the early morning hours of Dec. 27, 2021, changed the family’s life forever – a fight in the Old Dorchester Post in Adams Village that resulted