Thursday Tidbits: Dorchester Hosts

  Fields Corner, Dorchester (photo: PreservationNation/Flickr) LOCAL BITES A New Market Opens This Sunday, Jan. 8, Dorchester’s Codman Square Great Hall will be the site of a grand opening. The Dorchester Winter Farmers’ Market–called the first step toward a full-scale brick-and-mortar cooperative store in an area of low access — will open its doors as one of Boston’s only winter markets, and the only city market to accept EBT/SNAP and Boston Bounty Bucks. Hours are 12 – 3 p.m. on Sundays, Jan. thru March. The market will feature produce, Continue reading >>>

Schwieger wins ‘New England’s Heisman Trophy’

Print Report an Error Share attered numerous Dartmouth College and Ivy League season and career records, Big Green running back Nick Schwieger ’12 has been recognized by numerous football organizations, publications and news outlets for his strong performance on the field. The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston recognized Schwieger’s success and named him one of two recipients of the 73rd annual George Bulger Lowe Award, known as “New England’s Heisman Trophy” Schwieger is the fifth Big Green player to win the award. The Ivy League, the National Football Foundation and College Hall Continue reading >>>

‘T’ hearing draws protest

Casino meeting kept quietTrader Joe's eyes Patriot Place siteGlitch blamed for tax bill errorMansfield getting strategic in new year'T' hearing draws protestCasino 'kickoff' months awayUndeterred by cold5,000 North voters to get new precincts'Rose' Hagopian, dinner co-founder, dies at 84A plea for civility in city <!-- Most Commented on Stories [font:index:headline::] [topblogs:10:30:news] --> Continue reading >>>

Public meeting tonight to discuss possible closure of postal facility

The postal service will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. tonight at West Middle School to discuss the possible closing of its mail processing facility on Liberty Street. The Brockton facility at 225 Liberty St., which has 396 employees, is among seven mail-processing facilities in eastern Massachusetts that are being considered for closing or consolidation, said Dennis Tarmey, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service. The other facilities are in Boston, Lowell, North Reading, Shrewsbury, Waltham and Wareham. Postal officials are considering moving the mail operations to Providence to Continue reading >>>

Smith and Simeone join Bryant T&F Staff

January 4, 2012 Smithfield, R.I. – Bryant University men's and women's track and field head coach Stephanie Reilly has added two assistant coaches to her staff for the 2011-12 indoor and outdoor seasons. In her fourth season as the head coach of the cross country teams and track and field teams, Reilly has added Neal White and Mike Simeone to help the program through its final year of NCAA reclassification. He comes to Bryant after eight successful years at Westwood High School in Westwood, Mass., where he coached multiple division and all-state champions, Continue reading >>>

Congressman, union official oppose postal facility closure

Print this Article Email this Article WAREHAM — Postal Service managers held a meeting Tuesday night on a proposal to move mail processing operations from a Wareham plant to the processing and distribution facility in Providence.U.S. Rep. William R. Keating, D-Mass., and union officials questioned whether customers will be well served by the change and if the move would actually produce the desired cost savings. Keating, running for re-election this year Continue reading >>>

Tea Party sees its own win in primaries

The candidates’ messages, the voters’ anti-government, anti-spending fervor — the Tea Party is taking credit for it all. “It’s been really, really significant,” TeaParty.net spokesman Kevin Jackson said about the anti-tax group’s influence on the GOP 2012 primary. “Once you take away the media hype and the malicious vitriol, what the people are saying is, ‘We no longer are deferring to government as the master of us,’ and that’s what the Tea Party is all about.” Greater Boston Tea Party member Christen Varley said the general public won’t witness the conservative group’s Continue reading >>>

Boston Tea Party president: ‘Iowa is very bizarre’

Related Stories Romney wins Iowa by 8 votes Mitt Romney: 'Congratulations to Rick Santorum' Rick Santorum: 'Thank you, Iowa' Romney, Santorum deadlocked for Iowa victory Rick Santorum: 'Thank you, Iowa' (NECN: Jim Braude) – Tuesday night is the Iowa caucus, and Jim Braude is convening his own caucus. It is with two of the movers and shakers in Massachusetts politics.Braude’s guests are Karyn Polito, former republican legislator and candidate for state treasurer, and Christine Morabito, the newly-named president of the Greater Boston tea party.Does the state have far Continue reading >>>