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Boston Strong;’ Jane Progressing Editor’S Note: the Positive News and Look Healing from the Shrap- Than Anyone Can Know Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 30 Issue 20 Thursday, May 16, 2013 50¢ Next question: How many of 24 will make the ballot? Signature- gathering deadline is next Tuesday By Gintautas dumcius news editor The door to the Election Department closed on Monday at 5 p.m., marking one end to the first leg of Boston’s 2013 municipal elections countdown as the last-day candidates applied for nomination papers Councillor-At-Large Felix Arroyo takes names at the Dunkin’ that had been available since Donuts shop in Fields Corner. Gintautas Dumcius photo April 30. While 24 people – a mix of including state Rep. Marty and District 4 Councillor elected officials, community Walsh, former state Rep. Charles Yancey. activists and long shots – have Charlotte Golar Richie, former Others live in West Roxbury applied for the papers, not all School Committee member (City Councillor At-Large John of them are expected to gather John Barros, Codman Square Connolly and Suffolk District enough signatures to make Health Center co-founder Bill Attorney Dan Conley), Hyde the ballot. Others may run for Walczak, Barstool Sports’ Park (District 5 Councillor Rob other municipal offices. David Portnoy, Rev. Miniard Consalvo), Jamaica Plain (City Nearly half of the two Culpepper, TOUCH 106.1 FM Councillor At-Large Felix dozen hail from Dorchester, co-founder Charles Clemons, (Continued on page 9) Tasia A. Jones will be one of the performers in this weekend’s Craigslist post leads first- ever Dorchester Fringe Festival. She will appear on Sat- urday at the Erick Jean Center for the Arts in Four Corners. cops to stolen goods Photo by Luke Barosky Bill Forry The victim reported the reporter editor break-in on Monday morning Fringe Festival Area C-11 detectives busted and then circled back with Suspect post: A Craigslist ad a 23 year-old Dorchester man police later that same day after for a “very nice camera in good on Monday as he attempted she saw her Canon Powershot condition” led a Savin Hill to sell them a pair of stolen SD780 camera— with its woman— and Boston Police— gives ‘edgy’ artists cameras that he posted for sale distinctive pink case— listed to the culprit, who posted his on Craigslist just hours before. for sale along with another phone number with the ad. One of the two cameras was camera on Craigslist. Area restaurant on Columbia Rd. their star turns among the items that had been C-11 detectives called the that same evening. When the By chris hardinG perhaps the most prestigious stolen the night before from a number attached to the ad and suspect— identified as Amilton special to the reporter theater festival in the world. Savin Hill Ave. car. set up a meeting at the KFC (Continued on page 9) The first-ever all-free “Fringe festival” means Dorchester Fringe Festival different things in different (DFF) filled with “edgy” places, but generally connotes INSIDE entertainers will take place no formal jury process, mini- A ‘down payment’ this weekend at two venues. mal staging, and a predilection Rev. Sean Connor, pas- Supported by the Dorchester for experimental and up-and- on Greenway trail tor of St. Ann’s Parish Arts Collaborative (DAC), the coming artists whose work DFF will showcase theater may be hard to categorize. since 2008, is is leaving and performing artists, mostly Dorchester has no main- planned in Mattapan Sq. Dorchester for a pastor- from Dorchester, but some stream arts festival, so there’s By Gintautas dumcius to partially demolish and ate in Weymouth. from greater Boston, in a wide nothing technically to be on news editor refurbish it this summer. Page 8. range of genres, including the fringe of, but that didn’t The state’s Department of Joe Orfant, the depart- theater, musical theater and faze DFF co-producers: Up- Conservation and Recreation ment’s chief of planning and spoken word. hams Corner poet Liam Day plans to create a new public resource protection, called the The fringe festival concept and Savin Hill performance square through the clean work a “down payment” on the originated in 1947 in Ed- artist Obehi Janice. up of a decrepit Mattapan completion of the Neponset inburgh, Scotland when a Day, a Cushing Ave. resi- Square building, which once Greenway trail. group of performers who had dent, describes the unexpect- housed a mattress store but State officials have spent been excluded from that city’s edly strong response of local has become an eyesore on the years chasing federal dollars main theater festival, found artists: “We actually had city’s doorstep. The agency to complete the greenway’s alternative spaces on the to turn down many people paid $400,000 for the former expansion, a project likely All contents copyright “fringe” of the city in which to because we had no more room. furniture store in 2010 and is to cost $16.8 million. The © 2013 Boston Neighborhood News, Inc. perform. Now Edinburgh is (Continued on page 6) expected to spend $300,000 (Continued on page 17) Page 2 THE REPoRTER May 16, 2013 Reporter’s Notebook On The Record Cullinane opens account A rally about excellence for 12th Suffolk House run By Gintautas dumcius reporters attempting to pry specifics news editor out of the longtime lawmaker and Dan Cullinane, who has worked former mayor. “The clock is running, at the State House and in City Hall, so I’m closer,” he said after remarks is considering a run for the 12th Suf- to the New England Council at the folk House seat if state Rep. Linda Hampshire House. In the direction of Dorcena Forry wins the May 28 running? “I’m closer,” he said. How special election to fill former state much closer? “Several months closer,” Sen. Jack Hart’s seat. Dorcena he said, clearly enjoying the back-and- Forry, who has been in the House forth with reporters. since a 2005 special election, is facing Capuano, who was elected in 1998, off against Dorchester Republican didn’t have many kind words for his Joseph Ureneck to represent a Sen- current place of employment, saying ate district that includes Dorchester, that Congress has done little beyond South Boston, parts of Mattapan. and “pontificating and posturing” this year. a portion of Hyde Park. In his remarks, he said the attack in Benghazi, which led to the deaths of four Americans, has raised legitimate questions. The White House has been under fire over how much control it exerted over talking points on the attack and how much it was attempting to insulate the State Department from Suffolk Construction Chairman and CEO John Fish chaired the Boston Scholar any damage. But Republicans have Athletes Pep Rally held recently at the Agganis Arena in Boston. The actor turned hearings on the matter into a and Dorchester native Mark Wahlberg made a surprise appearance at the sideshow, and they have a “get Hillary event, which benefited Boston Public high schools’ scholar athletes. Pictured, Clinton” feel to them, he added. from left, are Fish, TechBoston Academy student Shay Webster, and Wahlberg. one Dot candidate jumps into at-large race; another drops out SUPERteens sought for summer program On the last day mayoral and at-large Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Daphne Griffin, Boston’s Chief of Human candidates were able to apply for Services and Executive Director of Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF,) Dan Cullinane on the campaign trail. nomination papers at City Hall, a have announced the return of the citywide SUPERTeens Program for Boston Savin Hill resident waded into the race, youth ages 13-14. The program runs out of ten BCYF Community Centers, while another Dorchester resident The 12th Suffolk House district including the Holland, 85 Olney Street, Dorchester; Leahy-Holloran, 1 Worrell withdrew his name from contention. includes Peabody Square, Cedar Street, Dorchester; and Mildred Avenue, 5 Mildred Avenue, Mattapan. On the , who appeared Grove, Lower Mills, and Mattapan. Catherine O’Neill application, there is a section to select a preferred center. in an ad last year for House Speaker Thomas Finneran, Elizabeth The program offers Boston youth a high-quality service-learning experience US Senate campaign, pulled a Mattapan Democrat, held the seat Warren’s during the summer months. Youth in the SUPERTeens program will have the nomination papers to run for at-large before Forry. opportunity to attend weekly leadership development workshops, gain work on Monday. A Lower Mills native and Cullinane, vice president of the experience in BCYF Community Centers and participate in scavenger hunt Savin Hill resident, O’Neill had been Cedar Grove Civic Association, opened field trips to Boston’s arts and cultural institutions. serving as campaign manager for state a campaign committee on Friday with The program will run seven weeks beginning on July 8 and ending on Aug. Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry’s Senate the state Office of Campaign and 23. The teens will work 15 hours a week from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Mondays run, taking over for Political Finance. Cayce McCabe and Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. after he left for District 8 Councillor “It has been an honor working for Participants must be at least thirteen years old on or before July 8 to participate mayoral campaign. Linda Dorcena Forry and I am com- Michael Ross’s and will receive a stipend at the end of the summer for successful completion of O’Neill is well-known in local mitted to seeing her become the next the program. The application and other information can be found on BCYF’s political circles and wrote a play based state senator representing the First website, cityofboston.gov/BCYF.
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