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
$1.4 Million in Funding Awarded Across Six Community Health Centers BOSTON – May 24, 2023 – The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) is pleased to announce
Several hundred people turned out on Nov. 18 to salute one of Dorchester’s most celebrated leaders of the last half-century: Jim Hunt, Jr., who officially retired this year as executive director of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. Hunt, 72, achieved hero status not just here in our neighborhood or in the Commonwealth, but also across the country for his
Fifty years ago, the newest face of health care in Dorchester was a line of mothers with baby carriages outside a storefront on Neponset Avenue. If the patients at the newly opened Neponset Health Center looked like a throwback to a time when a medical visit was within walking distance, or even at home, they were also a sign that times had changed. Just one block away,