68 Blocks: Life, Death, Hope | Part 2
With summer approaching, the rhythm quickens in Bowdoin-Geneva. Violence seems to rise with the heat, but so do a mother’s hopes for her children, and a priest’s quest to connect. Meanwhile, from the weeds, an unlikely garden grows.
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The only way for Father Doc Conway to reach out to many residents of Bowdoin-Geneva is to walk its streets.
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How Bowdoin-Geneva has evolvedLess than 150 years ago, the portion of Dorchester known as Bowdoin-Geneva was rocky countryside with few residents.
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68 Blocks: Life, Death, HopeA five-part Globe series on Boston’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood.
Christopher L. Gasper
The final score might not have labeled Brady a winner, but everything about the way he rallied the Patriots from a 28-point third-quarter deficit did.
The first two of the 20 young victims will be buried today as police said the school where the shooting occurred will likely be closed for months.
The lawyer for Dwayne Moore, who is charged with killing four people, including a 2-year-old boy, told a judge he fears the school shootings will influence jurors.
Nancy Brennan is leaving after eight years in charge of the downtown Boston park system to take a job at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
The economic downturn has fallen particularly hard on low-income households, forcing teens to trade school for work and put their futures at risk.
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The stinging defeat to the 49ers is the type of loss that teaches the lessons that will be heeded and applied in January.
More than 4,000 children from homeless shelters across the city flooded into the 24th annual Christmas in the City “Winter Wonderland.”
Syrian jets dropped bombs on a decades-old Palestinian refugee enclave in Damascus on Sunday, opposition activists said.
The senator will have decades of international experience to draw on if he becomes the next secretary of state.
The William Styron letters display an author of extremes — from kindness to cruelty.
A government task force recommended that doctors discuss the dangers of smoking with all patients ages 10 to 17.
