Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood”

Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 30 Issue 33 Thursday, August 15, 2013 50¢ Dems like Cullinane in 12th 15 out of 15 precincts Next up: The final (Sept. 10) reporting, Cullinane had 1,372 votes, or 60.39 against two independents percent. Everett had By Gintautas Dumcius replace Linda Dorcena 21.74 percent, and Mary news eDitor Forry, who ascended to Tuitt had 14.26 percent Dan Cullinane, a the state Senate in June, of the vote. Cullinane former aide to state were Stephanie Everett, also won decisively in Rep. Marty Walsh and a former aide to state Milton, where he won ex-Councillor Maureen Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, 291 votes to a combined Feeney, handily won and Mary Tuitt, who total of 75 for his two a three-way special works as an aide to state opponents. Democratic primary in Rep. Gloria Fox. Cullinane, who also Dan Cullinane Dorchester’s Kurtis Rivers leads a Sunday night jazz the 12th Suffolk House According to unofficial worked on John O’Toole’s session at the Ramsay/Toy VFW Post on Woodrow District on Tuesday. results posted on the District 3 campaign in ry’s Senate campaign, Ave. Photo by Mark Redmond The other Democrats city’s Elections Depart- 2011 and served as field will face off against two running in the race to ment website, with director of Dorcena For- (Continued on page 4) On Woodrow At-large Ave., a hidden race: Dot gem in Boston’s has 5 of 19 live jazz scene on the trail By Gintautas Dumcius By mark reDmonD hard in Boston’s jazz news eDitor special to the reporter clubs, playing several When Ayanna Press- From her table in the nights a week at the ley ran for City Council back corner of Ramsay/ legendary Wally’s Café At-Large in 2009, six Toy VFW Post #8872 in Boston’s South End other Dorchester resi- on Woodrow Avenue, in the mid to late 1980s. dents were on the ballot. Post manager Marie In more recent times, Pressley, a Chicago na- Carrington spends Rivers has performed, tive and former aide to Sunday evenings in- recorded, and toured John Kerry, had moved spired by the sounds of with acclaimed Boston The Dorchester champs included players (front kneeling, l-r) Caroline O’Brien, Michela Juliano, Holly Silva, Hannah Silva and Gabby Kehayias. Middle row: into the neighborhood Dorchester saxophonist jazz groups such as the previous November, Salim Washington’s Rox- Brenna Galvin, Katie Nolan, Mikayla O’Dowd, Reilly Hayes and Amanda Ste- Kurtis Rivers and his fura. Back row: Coach Richard O’Brien, Maddie Connolly, Ashley Penella, RBI after living in other band. Carrington calls bury Blues Aesthetic, Director Jose Ruiz BPD, Lucy Caffrey-Maffei, Danielle Rood and Maureen parts of the city like the this her “Sunday night Russ Gershon’s Either/ Penella. Missing: Clare Duckworth, Bridget Collins, Nicole Anderson and Fenway and Back Bay. prayer meeting,” and Orchestra, and the Jackie Clark. Photo courtesy Red Sox Foundation In all, fifteen can- she is looking forward to Makanda Project. didates ran for four celebrating six years of The Post resulted from at-large slots that year, Sunday jazz at the Post a merger of the David Dot Red Sox No. 1 citywide a stampede prompted on August 18. F. Ramsay Post and by the departure of two Carrington was in- Roxbury’s Patrick E. Toy By Brianna macGreGor of his team and impressed by their at-large councillors – Mi- troduced to Rivers by a Post— the first exclu- special to the reporter determination. He recalls a night chael Flaherty of South friend, and her love of sively African-American Finishing off a victorious summer several weeks ago when it was 99 Boston and Sam Yoon of jazz and his pursuit of VFW Veteran’s post in season, the Dorchester Red Sox degrees and humid, yet the girls still Fields Corner – who left a regular performance the United States. It softball team beat a fellow Dot team, showed up to play. The men’s league hoping to knock Mayor venue resulted in a has become an under- the Dorchester Rangers, last week in cancelled that night, he said, but not Thomas Menino off his weekly residency that the-radar hotspot in a the citywide championship. one of the girls complained. perch. Of the Dorchester has become a hidden gem contemporary Boston In an exciting first game last “The commitment of the girls is seven, and only Pressley in the Boston jazz world. jazz landscape that is Tuesday night, the two teams were unbelievable,” he said. “It’s not com- grabbed one of the slots. Originally from South more known for a few neck and neck until the Red Sox won mon for girls this age to play full school Four years later, she Carolina, Rivers moved Cambridge and South by a single run in the bottom of the seasons and all summer long, just for is one of two at-large to Massachusetts in the End venues. seventh inning. On Thursday, the Red the enjoyment of playing.” incumbents, along with 1970s, eventually enroll- Rivers praises Car- Sox were victorious again and clinched O’Brien has been coaching softball Stephen Murphy, a ing at Berklee School of rington and the Ramsay/ the championship series. for over 20 years and says he’s coached Dorchester native now Music in 1979. During Toy Post for creating a After a summer plagued by intense many of these now high school-aged living in Hyde Park, space for this uniquely heat waves and bouts of rain, coach girls since they were five. and after his time at (Continued on page 4) Berklee, Rivers worked (Continued on page 17) Richard O’Brien says he is proud (Continued on page 17) Recalling the March on Washington, 50 years later By Brianna macGreGor of 1963. Fifty years ago that everyone should go was tomorrow.” Rights movement and special to the reporter this month, she and her to bear witness,” Shaw Progress came at a far its approaching anni- Sarah-Ann Shaw, a young daughter drove to remembers. “We all slower pace— and with versary — on August Roxbury native who later the now-historic March thought the march would many years of struggle 28— has given rise to became a pioneering on Washington with high solve all of our problems and setbacks. But the commemorations and television reporter in hopes. and that discrimination March on Washington special events across the All contents copyright Boston, was a student “I thought it was the could be ended. We really stands today as a semi- nation, including several © 2013 Boston organizer in the summer right thing to do and thought that freedom nal moment in the Civil (Continued on page 9) Neighborhood News, Inc. Page 2 THE REPORTER August 15, 2013 Reporter’s Notebook On The Record Activist mounts write-in Swearing-in, take two bid for District 7 seat By Gintautas Dumcius he said. “I like the fact that incumbents news eDitor are challenged,” Henriquez added, A bombastic Roxbury activist, saying it keeps elected officials “on Jamarhl Crawford, plans to wage their toes.” a write-in campaign for the District Turner, who is now in a halfway 7 City Council seat. Councillor Tito house after getting let out of federal Jackson, a former aide to Gov. prison for good behavior, could also be Deval Patrick who won the seat in a factor. He was interviewed by the a 2011 special election, is running for Bay State Banner’s Yawu Miller for reelection. a story that ran last week. Crawford, who opened up a campaign “The reality is we’re in a worse situ- account with the state Office of ation than we were in 1963, the year Campaign and Political Finance last of the March on Washington and Dr. week and placed $5,000 into it, was King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech,” Turner scheduled to launch his campaign told the newspaper. “We’re living in last night at the Frugal Bookstore in the cities by the grace of government Roxbury. On his campaign website, subsidies. Fifty percent of the people Crawford wrote, “I do not expect your I represented in District Seven lived support just because you know me, I in subsidized housing.” want to engage you and I hope to EARN The newspaper, which posted a Mayor Tom Menino officiated at a ceremonial swearing-in of Senator Edward your support based on the merits of picture of a thin Turner on its website, Markey at Faneuil Hall last Thursday evening. Several hundred people attended my ideas and track record of service.” reported that he was working with the event. Markey, who won a special election to replace Secretary of State Crawford has run a separate activists and operating out of a Grove John Kerry earlier this year, was officially sworn into office in Washington, D.C. in June. Photo courtesy Isabel Leon/Mayor’s Office website, Blackstonian.com, which Hall nonprofit, Imani House. “What I’d has frequently taken aim at Jackson, like to do is call on the elders — those Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley, who are 50 years old and up, those a mayoral candidate, and Boston Police who were born at the time we declared Two officers wounded, suspect killed in Dot Commissioner Ed Davis. our intent to become citizens of the Jackson already has an opponent on United States with full legal rights,” Ave. shootout; intense manhunt followed the ballot: Frequent candidate Roy Turner said. Two Boston Police officers were injured and a Brockton man who allegedly Owens, who has often highlighted his opened fire on the police was shot dead during a frightening midday shootout opposition to abortion when at forums It’s another girl for the Connollys on a typically quiet block of Dorchester Ave.

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