Less than one-fifth of Boston’s electorate trickled to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that will bring a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics to the 13-member body. The new faces will include John FitzGerald, who posted a decisive victory over Joel Richards in the race to succeed Frank Baker as the District 3 councillor.
District 3 Councillor Frank Baker’s decision against running for reelection has opened up a seat in a recently reconfigured district that curves down from the Ink Block complex in the South End to Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester’s Neponset neighborhood and includes more of Fields Corner, which has long been a Vietnamese residential and commercial stronghold. The field has two
District 3 Councillor Frank Baker, who developed a reputation over six terms for delivering constituent services and sometimes clashing with mayors and his colleagues on the City Council, isn’t running for reelection. “The privilege and responsibility of serving as a city councilor requires my round-the-clock dedication,” Baker said in a statement last Thursday (April 20). “I
Hundreds packed Dorchester’s Murphy School earlier this week to speak out on Pine Street Inn’s proposal to turn the hotel across the street into permanent supportive housing for formerly homeless people. Local elected officials were in the crowd on Tuesday night to voice concern, including Dorchester Councillor Frank Baker, who said he is completely opposed to the proposal for
Mayor Michelle Wu visited the Strand Theatre on Tuesday to check out a digital art installation featuring the works of Vincent van Gogh, the 19th-century Dutch impressionist painter. The immersive exhibition has been in residency at the historic theatre since October, perhaps the longest stretch of time in recent memory that the Strand has been in use for one purpose. The Van