Do you think that Train Street in Dorchester is named after a locomotive? Well, think again, says the Dorchester Historical Society (DHS). The roadway, which runs across the top of Pope’s Hill between Ashmont Street and Victory Road, takes its name from Enoch Train, a 19th century merchant who played a significant role in that era’s profitable transatlantic trade and the
In what was likely the final meeting before their proposal goes before a city board for approval, Pine Street Inn and The Community Builders, the two nonprofits seeking to revamp the Comfort Inn at 900 Morrissey Blvd. into permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless people, pledged this week to use a senior preference approach when enlisting tenants.
Frank O’Brien, a Neponset native who documented the highs and lows of the local sports scene for the Boston Globe for more than 40 years, died on March 29 – his birthday at age 82. He was buried out of St. Ann’s on Monday after a jam-packed wake in Milton drew bold-faced names from the world of journalism and hundreds of his neighbors past and present from the slopes of