The Fields Corner Civic Association is asking the MBTA to provide more details about the status and integrity of three bridges that carry Red Line trains over neighborhood streets this month. During the group’s Oct. 3 meeting in the Kit Clark Senior building, civic leaders said they want an MBTA official to address their concerns about the bridges on Dorchester Avenue, Geneva
It has been decades since Bessie Gaul could walk from her apartment near Bowdoin-Geneva and get fresh food in a high-quality store. But last Saturday morning, she went shopping with a smile as the long-awaited Dorchester Food Coop (DFC) opened its doors on the ground floor of a new building at 195 Bowdoin St. “I’ve been waiting for this for 54 years,” said Gaul, who was with
When Auston Harris looked out on the newly finished garden and open space on Magnolia Street last week, he recalled the early days of the effort when he was a teen-ager who joined with other volunteers to dig out polluted soil on the site and level off the ground by hand. He remembers long days with a shovel and pickaxe driven by a community vision for the space that at the