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In the days after the murder, the good people of Massachusetts thought they saw the shooter everywhere.

It was 1983, and the nation was just starting to climb back from double-digit unemployment. More than 2,000 people would die from a newly discovered disease called AIDS. Time Magazine’s Man of the Year was “The Computer,” and Michael Jackson would update the shuffle into the fractured poise of the “moonwalk.” On the streets of Roxbury and Dorchester, a section of the Caribbean

Putting the soul in public media since 1968.

Celebrating the 40th birthday of the Dorchester Reporter has transported me back to 1983, when Ed and Mary Forry began publishing their newspaper. I was still early in my tenure as executive director of the Codman Square Health Center, which took several years to start up operations after being organized in 1974. In those days, we had appointment books that we kept for telling

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