Last month, Ellen Gilmore sent a message to our newsroom: “My mother, Elaine Gilmore, who will be celebrating a big birthday, decided that she wanted to give her grandchildren a tour of important places in Dorchester along with her narration as her gift to them. “Both of my parents grew up in Dorchester and moved to Canton as their family was expanding,” said Ellen. “My family
They were among the many who said goodbye. Some served in government. Some served the interests of their neighborhoods in public settings while others did so from home. Some offered spiritual direction. Some built things, and one delivered the mail with diligence and equanimity. For all that, they had one thing in common: A connection to Dorchester during their lives. Robert
As the sun set last Friday, slowly darkening Lower Mills village, the sign atop the Walter Baker Chocolate factory’s administrative building lit up for the first time in nearly 60 years. Hundreds of people gathered at Adams Street and Dorchester Ave. to get a glimpse of the newly bright neon sign, which had been dismantled and taken down for repairs last November. Now
A funeral Mass will be said at St. Gregory Church next Tuesday for Theresa “Terry” Dolan, a longtime Dorchester civic leader and environmental activist, who died suddenly April 4 at her home in Lower Mills. A Milton native who graduated from Fontbonne Academy and Regis College, Ms. Dolan moved into Dorchester in 1991, drawn, she said, by the “mini-renaissance” of the Walter