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After a few misfires, difficulties, and lots of planning, the long-awaited Four Corners Plaza development is about ready for construction to begin, with shovels in the ground perhaps has soon as October. The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) and Bald Hill Builders announced late last week they are ready to close on financing and get started on the $25.5
When gunshots ring out on a Boston street, the intensity of the scene, with its police lights, crime tape, and news helicopters, drives a highly emotional reaction that can take over life for those involved in the incident and those watching from a window or a front porch. It can be a lot to process in the moment, but after the police and evidence collectors disperse, the
Is there something in the water in Ward 17, perhaps the Neponset River that flows by it? The district, which includes Lower Mills, and parts of Codman Square and Mattapan, has been home to mayors (2), attorney generals (3), and a speaker of the Massachusetts House, among other elected officials. Mayor John B. Hynes, who served through the 1950s, lived on Druid Street off
It was the weekend before primary election day, and one of the Democratic candidates for Suffolk County district attorney, City Councillor Ricardo Arroyo, was caught in a rip tide of retracted endorsements. For voters already tipped off by damaging news reports about alleged sexual misconduct in his teen years, the impression was only reinforced when the faces of erstwhile
In September 2021, the photographer Mike Ritter spent his afternoons in Dorchester Park on yet another activity that the pandemic had made more difficult: taking photographs in a public space to, in this case, study relationships, whether familial, romantic, or friendly, as part of a project he called “Get Close.” Ritter, a Dorchester resident, originally envisioned the