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Bill Forry
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Editor/Publisher, Dorchester Reporter.
Dorchester, Boston, MA.

https://www.dotnews.com/

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Holiday season launches Saturday with tree lighting tour, Lower Mills ‘stroll,’ Ashmont ‘market’ #Dorchester

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November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Giving thanks for "hidden" heroes and sheroes in Codman Square and Four Corners #Dorchester

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‘Hidden’ heroes from Codman Square, Four Corners are hailed at annual gala - Dorchester Reporter
In keeping with the Thanksgiving season, the Codman Square Neighborhood Council and the Greater Four Corners Action Coalition praised neighborhood adults and teens who often shy away from the spotligh...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The classic Thanksgiving Day schedule column by Mary Casey Forry, the late co-founder of The Reporter, originally published in 1987.

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November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Happy to have you back, Richard. Good luck with the new venture.
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The Strand is truly a treasure of Dorchester and of Greater Boston; many fond times there with Jose Mateo’s Nutcracker (check it out! cheap way to see the ballet!) and the Boston Children’s Chorus among others
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K-Pop, indie operas, Punjabi dance-offs, and the Jose Mateo Nutcracker's up next starting 12/6...

It's great to see the Strand Theatre — Boston's only city-owned theatre venue — being so well-used these days.
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The Strand Theatre is a busy spot lately!

Last weekend, the Dorchester theatre packed in more than 1,300 people for the Boston Bhangra Competition, one of North America’s largest Punjabi dance-offs.

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November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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K-Pop, indie operas, Punjabi dance-offs, and the Jose Mateo Nutcracker's up next starting 12/6...

It's great to see the Strand Theatre — Boston's only city-owned theatre venue — being so well-used these days.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Great night!

Thanks to our neighbors for recognizing Seth's excellent coverage and devotion to community journalism.

We're so lucky to have him on The Reporter team.

Congrats to everyone honored last night- watch this week's Reporter for more about this event!
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The Reporter's own Seth Daniel was honored for his work and service to Dorchester by the Codman Square Neighborhood Council and Greater Four Corners Action Coalition last night at their annual Hidden Heroes and Sheroes banquet at Southline Boston.

Congratulations, Seth!
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The development team hired by the NY-based owners of the former Carney Hospital to plan a re-use of the shuttered Dorchester campus continue to meet with civic associations and abutters this month as they work on a proposal to present to city planners in the new year.
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Carney developers continue ‘listening tour’ - Dorchester Reporter
Tom O’Brien of HYM Investment Group and Rev. Jeffrey Brown, a Dorchester pastor who leads his own development company, My City at Peace, appeared on the DotLife podcast this week to discuss their enga...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The Urban Farming Institute in Mattapan distributed 650 turkey baskets on Thursday (Nov. 20) as the non-profit helped neighbors get prepared for next week’s Thanksgiving holiday.

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Urban Farming Institute answers the call to help needy families with turkey drive - Dorchester Reporter
The Urban Farming Institute in Mattapan distributed 650 turkey baskets on Thursday (Nov. 20) as the non-profit helped neighbors get prepared for next week’s Thanksgiving holiday.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Six of the Allston Car Wash 9 have now been granted bond to walk free, but of course the regime delayed releasing them, because unlike their predecessors, today's Nazis are not good at paperwork
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3 More Allston Car Wash Employees Detained by ICE Granted Release on Bond, Bringing Total to 6 | News | The Harvard Crimson
Three of the nine workers arrested in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at Allston Car Wash earlier this month were granted release on bond in Massachusetts immigration court on Thursday mor...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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“Be a good citizen by being a good neighbor. Recognize that we are responsible for what this country is and what it becomes. Cherish our freedoms, our history of tolerance, and help us to remember how lucky we are to be citizens of this country.” - US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Editorial— Racial profiling runs amok in Allston, but Boston won't stand for it

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Racial profiling runs amok in Allston - Dorchester Reporter
The arrest of nine workers by federal immigration agents at an Allston car wash on Nov. 4 — resulting in their detention over the last two weeks, despite claims from their attorneys that they have leg...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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"Things happen." Disgusting.
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Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:

"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."

A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This was bound to happen. What a mess.

"A man arraigned on a murder charge in a Dorchester courthouse Monday had weapons and drug charges against him dropped 26 days ago when no lawyer could be found to represent him, according to court records."

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Man charged with murder in Mattapan stabbing had prior case dropped due to lawyer shortage - The Boston Globe
The man's charges in a weapons and drugs case were dismissed under the state's Lavallee protocol, created this summer in response to a defense lawyers work stoppage.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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NEW— A proposal that will go before the Boston School Committee for discussion on Wednesday (Nov. 19) would result in the closure or reorganization of six city schools in 2027. Four Dorchester schools are impacted
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Four Dorchester schools impacted in BPS re-org plan - Dorchester Reporter
A proposal that will go before the Boston School Committee for discussion on Wednesday (Nov. 19) would result in the closure or reorganization of six city schools in 2027. Four Dorchester schools are ...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its plan to clean hazardous pollutants out of a 3.7-mile stretch of the Neponset River, the landmark waterway that runs 29 miles from Foxborough into Dorchester Bay.

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EPA finalizes cleanup plan for Lower Neponset - Dorchester Reporter
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its plan to clean hazardous pollutants out of a 3.7-mile stretch of the Neponset River, the landmark waterway that runs 29 miles from Foxboro...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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New in the DotLife podcast: Small women-led business owners talk about their experiences setting up shop in #Dorchester

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The New Businesses Shaping Our Neighborhoods
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November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and Museum Store will reopen to the public on Saturday, November 15, 2025.

In celebration of our reopening, the Museum is excited to offer free admission to all visitors through November 30.

Plan your trip: jfklibrary.org/PlanYourTrip
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Do you know who owns this dog?

The folks at MSPCA-Angell have put out a call for tips from the public about a stray miniature poodle-mix that was found emaciated near Geneva Avenue in Dorchester on Monday.

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Search is on for owner of emaciated stray dog 'Fiyero' - Dorchester Reporter
The folks at MSPCA-Angell have put out a call for tips from the public about a miniature poodle-mix who was found emaciated and shivering near Geneva Avenue in Dorchester on Monday.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Thanks to our staff, advertisers, subscribers, readers, sources, and everyone who keeps print journalism alive and well in Boston's neighborhoods...

No paywalls here, but if you'd like to help support our work w/ a subscription or donation, we'd be grateful.

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This week's print edition of The Reporter is now in circulation across the neighborhoods. You can also read it here:
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November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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We're fortunate to be part of this BU Newsroom project at @dotnews.bsky.social and, let me tell you, these student journalists have been consistently delivering compelling, well-written content, w/ excellent guidance from Steve Greenlee and Brian McGrory.

The future is brighter than you think.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Boston residents with Jamaican ties ask for help with hurricane relief

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Local residents with Jamaican ties ask for help with hurricane relief - Dorchester Reporter
As the massive eye of Hurricane Melissa churned toward Jamaica on Oct. 28, Robert Wint and Raymean Robinson could only sit and watch helplessly from Dorchester as the storm roared onto their home town...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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What a wonderful tribute to a friend 🥲
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM