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Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 34 Issue 8 Thursday, February 25, 2016 50¢ Massachusetts joins primary game on Tuesday By Jennifer Smith seems hard-fought and close with morning and again in the afternoon who has yet to endorse – have come reporter Staff each candidate’s supporters active on at a rally in Amherst, Sanders called out in staunch support for Clinton. Her With some 116 party delegates the campaign trail, local Republicans the month’s-long state-by state Massachusetts Leadership Council, on the line, Massachusetts voters say there has been little national campaign “a slog.” announced in December, lists 190 will take the measure of Democrats party presence in the state, just the oc- While observers say Sanders could elected officials, community, labor and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders casional rally and a focus on social benefit from the more liberal support grassroots leaders in her camp. in next Tuesday’s so-called “Super media campaigning. base that ushered US Sen. Elizabeth An important name on that list is Tuesday” presidential primary. On the Clinton and Sanders have each set Warren into office, Clinton has the Martin J. Walsh. The mayor’s team Republican ballot, the candidates, led up about a half dozen campaign offices majority of the state’s Democratic deployed more than 600 Clinton sup- by Donald Trump, will be chasing 42 across the state in a drag-out push establishment in her corner. All the porters to New Hampshire to join the delegate seats. for every vote. At a press conference members of the Congressional delega- thousands of Massachusetts volun- While the Clinton-Sanders race in a South Boston union hall Monday tion –with the exception of Warren, (Continued on page 11) Commuter rail stop in Mattapan no sure thing as T balks on funding Proponents are told they need to make ‘strong case’ The rear of a warehouse (front of building below) on Pleasant Street where a DOT Block representative By CaleB nelSon Funding for the station discovered a budding methamphetamine lab. Jennifer Smith photo reporter CorreSpondent project is being vetted in Top state transpor- the ongoing MassDOT/ tation officials have MBTA Capital invest- informed advocates for ment Program (CIP) Inside the old Hancock St. warehouse, the Blue Hill Avenue/ process, which begins Cummins Highway in earnest next month there sat a meth lab in the making commuter rail station and will be completed that the $25.2 million in May. The five-year By Jennifer Smith of the mixed use develop- needed to build it have spending plan will reporter Staff ment DOT Block that not yet been budgeted, include current and It was a troubling would replace the vacant meaning the proposal future improvement and discovery. Last October, warehouse with gleam- will have to compete investment projects for during a routine call to ing new apartments. for approval with other the state transportation open a vacant warehouse O’Neill was scheduled to MBTA infrastructure system. on Hancock Street in meet a client there that projects that are also “During this public Dorchester for a client afternoon. under review. process, each project and viewing, a representative The man greeted her MBTA General Man- initiative is examined for the property owner with trepidation on his ager Frank DePaola and evaluated as they stumbled into what from face and problematic But no, O’Neill said she hole in the brick wall, told Fairmount Line ‘compete’ for the limited all appearances was a news, O’Neill said. Her was told, it’s a meth lab. then laid her eyes up proponents in a meeting funds available in the newly constructed, but first thought was that it “My first thought was, the mess of materials last week that they will CIP,” MBTA spokesman not yet functioning, illicit involved bodies, a notion “He’s been watching too nearby, she said, “It need to make a “strong Joe Pesaturo wrote in an drug production set-up. triggered by her “prepare much ‘Breaking Bad,’ ” looked like Breaking case” if they want to email to the Reporter. The man was on site for the worst” mentality she said, a reference to Bad.” O’Neill then called see the long-anticipated “Like proposed station to open the heavy doors engendered by years of a television show that off her meeting. station that was slated to projects in Chelsea, of the warehouse for working as a liaison for features the operation of According to a Boston open next year actually Malden, and Wollaston, Catherine O’Neill, a the Office of Neighbor- such an enterprise. But Police report, officers built between Cummins the Blue Hill Ave Station Savin Hill resident who hood Services under the when she walked inside from District C-11 re- Highway and Blue Hill project is a good one with and saw a craterous has been the public face late Tom Menino. (Continued on page 12) Avenue. a number of benefits.” (Continued on page 4) Celebrating Tet 2016: Council gets earful on how budget cuts will hurt city’s It’s all about belonging high schools By JameS hoBin community. It’s all very cosmopolitan, Page 3 reporter Staff in a working-class kind of way. The glory of Dorchester is its Variety is what makes life in diversity. And since we are packed Dorchester so interesting and full of tightly together, there surprises, like the sight of a big yellow is no way to avoid dragon shaking its way down Charles exposure to outside Street in Fields Corner last Saturday. influences – it’s as The dragon was en route to the if we are marinat- Vietnamese Lunar Celebration hosted ing in diversity. The by VietAID, where over 300 people, including individuals representing Truong Trong Nghia, an employee at VietAId and unfamiliar customs, All contents copyright both the old and the a range of ethnic backgrounds, had producer of VietAId Community Television pro- © 2016 Boston new, that we encounter every day are gathered to celebrate Tet 2016. gram, during last Saturday’s Tet celebration in Neighborhood News, Inc. re-shaping the way that we live as a (Continued on page 9) Fields Corner. 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It’s a harbinger of spring that has been greeting Bostonians for & Fire Thursday (25th) – Ashmont Hill Association 40 years. meets at 52 Welles Ave., Dorchester at 7:30 p.m. The Ice Creamsmith, Supper at 7, desserts appreciated. the homemade ice cream Teen charged Friday (26th) – The Massachusetts Black Law- parlor in Lower Mills, yers Association in collaboration with the Boston opens on March 1 after with stabbing Police Department host a Know Your Rights! Youth its traditional winter another teen and Adult Forum at 5:30 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. hibernation. The family- 27 at 10 a.m. at Lena Park Community Center, 150 owned store at 2295 to death on American Legion Highway, Dorchester. RSVP at Dorchester Aven. will Columbia Road massblacklawyers.org mark it fortieth anni- • Fundraiser for The Martin W. Richard versary with promotions Amari Pope didn’t Charitable Foundation at 7 p.m., Florian Hall. and prizes throughout like the way an argu- Selling tickets for $100 a chance to win. First prize: the season, starting ment between two $5,000. Second prize: $2,000. Third prize: $1,000. with “door-opening” free other teens was going $20 donation at the door and pre-sale tickets. For mini-ice cream cones Sunday afternoon, so tickets and donations, please contact: Mike at 617- from noon to 2 p.m. on All of the ice cream, ice cream concoctions, he went up to his 833-2475, sheila.michael@[email protected] or Danielle Tuesday. frozen yogurt and sorbet such as sundaes, frappes, Columbia Road apart- at 617-905-0903 at [email protected]. Other promotions this sold at the shop is made banana splits, and the ment, got a kitchen Saturday (27th) – Plastic caps sculpture dedica- year will include free on the premises, and ice giant “Belt Buster” knife and returned to tion, community celebration at 1:30 p.m. at BPL’s ice cream on your 40th cream cakes, pies and sundae. plunge it into one of Grove Hall Branch, 41 Geneva Ave., Dorchester. birthday, a daily drawing pizzas are also available. The Skillins thank the teens, prosecutors Sunday (28th) – Family Solidarity Dinner and in March for an free ice Besides the thirteen their loyal customers for said Monday. Event: Refugees in the Middle East, 5:30 p.m. cream sundae, a $40 flavors on the menu, in- The Ice Creamsmith’s Pope, 16, was ordered Families as vehicles of peace. After a light Middle gift certificate raffle in cluding special monthly 40 years of success, and held without bail at Eastern supper, adults will get an update on the April and other raffles flavors, there are also a say they plan to continue his arraignment in crisis from Jeff Klein and Angela Kelly. The children through the summer.