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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
This beginner’s guide to the Dot Day Parade was originally published in June 2015. Can you feel it? The sense of anticipation, joy, and wonder, reverberating up and down Dot Ave? The parade brings together all the different ethnic groups that make up Boston’s biggest and best neighborhood. You could spend a year going to all the different ethnic fests across Boston. Or just
Next weekend promises to be a busy and fun-packed one in the neighborhood. Our June 1 edition will have a full rundown on all of the activities, including a preview of the annual Dot Day Parade, which starts at 1 p.m. on Sun., June 4. The parade has its roots in celebrations that go back to the turn of the 20th century and it has always been the highlight of what we consider
After a hugely successful launch last year, the Ashmont-Adams section of Dorchester will host the second annual DorchFest on Sat., June 3. The Dot Day weekend festival will feature live performances on porches and front-yards at roughly 50 homes in the heavily residential neighborhood between Ashmont Street and Gallivan Boulevard. The free event is organized by volunteers who
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