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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

For more than 30 years, the nostalgic image of kids working their paper routes has been a reality in Dorchester: Each week the Reporter is distributed by local kids to their customers around the neighborhood. It’s a reminder of the way things used to be on a massive scale, and a welcome small job for Dorchester youth in 2023. The operation is based on Mary O’Brien’s front

September 1983. Ronald Reagan was in his first term as president and the denizens of the Eire Pub already had a portrait of the Gipper – who popped in for a beer in ’82 – framed on their Adams Street wall. The USSR shot down a civilian Korean 747 over Siberia and the US House of Representatives voted unanimously to condemn the Russian atrocity. The Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams”

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

The Dorchester Reporter family is celebrating our 40th anniversary this year. Founded by my parents, Ed Forry and Mary Casey Forry, in a spare bedroom of my childhood home on Richmond Street, the newspaper started as a monthly publication in 1983. I was ten years old. My sister Maureen was five. The inaugural edition of The Reporter – published in September – carried a

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

Frank O’Brien, a Neponset native who documented the highs and lows of the local sports scene for the Boston Globe for more than 40 years, died on March 29 – his birthday —at age 82. He was buried out of St. Ann’s on Monday after a jam-packed wake in Milton drew bold-faced names from the world of journalism and hundreds of his neighbors past and present from the slopes of

By Ed ForryBoston Irish Publisher The month of Saint Patrick is here at last. Boston’s Irish stay connected with many events throughout the year, at the Irish Cultural Centre, the Irish Pastoral Centre, the Rian Center for Immigrants, and gatherings at pubs and parishes, where we celebrate and sustain the Irish heritage. This month, there are many more places where

In large parts across America, last Sunday was a day to get ready for the Super Bowl that night, but for the Ashmont community, it was a day to grieve the loss of a long-vital neighborhood institution. When first conceived and brought to life by well-known Boston chef Chris Douglass some 18 years ago, the Ashmont Grill on Talbot Avenue revitalized the area around its Peabody

From its origins, this event has been a celebration of our shared Irish heritage with an emphasis on men and women— past and present— who have excelled and inspired us with their personal and professional achievements, generous spirit, wisdom and wit. Over the last dozen years, some of Irish America’s best-known and beloved people and families have graced the Seaport ballroom