Category: Dorchester Reporter
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In council forum, topics run the gamut from affordable housing to immigration, rent control, bike and bus lanes
Part of the at-large panel (l-r): Erin Murphy, Henry Santana, Ruthzee Louijeune, Marvin Mathelier and Alexandra Valdez at a Hibernian Hall forum on May 22, 2025. Photo by Georgia Epiphaniou Seventeen candidates for City Council seats fielded questions about affordable…
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Checking out the Dudley Greenhouse, a tri-community food-growth engine
The air in the greenhouse hung damp with the smell of rich earth. Seedlings hummed with life, stretching toward the afternoon sun that filtered through the panels overhead. At the Dudley Greenhouse in Roxbury, spring is in full swing. Born…
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Beyond war: Naja Pham Lockwood gathers her refugee stories
When Naja Pham Lockwood was seven years old, she stole a plastic water canteen from another little girl as she boarded a US Navy ship. It was 1975, and her family was one of many fleeing Vietnam following the fall…
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Peace Institute, NU class offer forum to survivors in unsolved homicides
Clementina Chéry, president and CEO of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, asked Northeastern University law professor Andrew Haile and his first-year law class last fall if they could look into police responses to survivors’ requests for information on unsolved…
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Two marshals to lead Dot Day Parade: One-time allies in Vietnam War join forces to celebrate neighborhood
Charlie Santangelo (right), who fought in Vietnam as a US Marine, and Tan Nhu Pham, a former policeman who survived seven years in a Việt Cộng prison camp and emigrated to Dorchester in 1993, will jointly lead June’s Dorchester Day…
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The 50th anniversary of ‘Black April’ centers memories for many in Vietnamese community
“I am who I am and where I am because of Black April,” says Tran Vu of Dorchester.Reporter file photo Vietnamese community organizations are organizing the largest commemoration in Boston for the 50th anniversary of what has become known as…
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City tells aggrieved resident that it will address intersection safety in Codman Sq.
Dean Toulan and city officials take the measure of things at the intersection of Washington and Armandine streets on March 11. Karyna Cheung photo Dean Toulan hit the new crosswalk button at Armandine and Washington streets that was installed by…