Codman Hill News Today

As Tuesday’s storm forecast grew ominous over the weekend, devotees of Boston’s social media activated the “French Toast Alert,” a system that Universal Hub editor Adam Gaffin has used for years to help Bostonians gauge the level of panic they should apply to gathering weather threats— and let them know when they should rush to the store to buy milk, eggs, and bread.

In 1983, Ed and Mary Forry launched a monthly newspaper from a makeshift office in their Lower Mills home. Forty years later, The Reporter is still in business and the Forry’s vision of creating a quality hometown newspaper for Boston’s largest neighborhood remains a weekly work in progress. When he left his home near Dorchester Park that Monday morning in August of 1983, Ed

You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline. Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus-Citizen. The year was 1983, and the insert’s red-white-and-black cover saluted a high point of the preceding twelve months with a lead photo of President Ronald Reagan

Joseph K. Dundon, 79, passed away peacefully on Aug. 16 in his home with his wife Viki by his side. Together they shared 54 years of marriage, filling their lives with friendships and hospitality. He was a husband, father, grandfather, mentor, and friend, and all will miss his warmth, wit, and charm. Born October 13, 1943, Mr. Dundon grew up on Vera Street in Dorchester’s

The city is preparing to embark on a major redesign of Walsh Park, the nearly 7-acre park nestled between Lower Mills and Codman Hill that includes a playground, tennis and basketball courts, and ballfields. The Boston Parks and Recreation Department held an initial, virtual meeting on June 29 to begin gathering input from neighbors on how to improve and program the park,

You can never know Dorchester well enough, especially on deadline. Ed Forry learned that lesson again, on his tenth time as publisher and editor of the Dorchester Day supplement to the weekly Dorchester Argus-Citizen. The year was 1983, and the insert’s red-white-and-black cover saluted a high point of the preceding twelve months with a lead photo of President Ronald Reagan

When I close my eyes, I still smell chocolate! That was an essential aspect of life growing up in Dorchester Lower Mills in the years after World War II. Until the Walter Baker Chocolate Company was subsumed into a major national firm, the chocolate factory operated in the 1950s not very differently than it had for many decades prior.  Hardworking men and a few women from

Our first fall in Harvard was a mast year for oak trees. A bumper crop of acorns enticed the chipmunks to take over the yard. The little creatures...