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Bill to auction prints of some of his best-known images to benefit Fieldhouse

April 9th, 2022 Comments Closed

DORCHESTER — At the “Behind the Scenes” event on Sunday, April 10, 2022, Bill will auction off prints of some of his best known imagaes to benefit the Dorchester Fieldhouse. The event, “Behind the Scenes with Bill Brett,” will start at 1 p.m. at Florian Hall. Each $50 ticket will include a free copy of Bill’s book “Boston: Game Changers” and a Dorchester T-shirt (thanks, Jack and College Hype!), and other goodies. There will be…

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College Hype names customer of the month

March 7th, 2022 Comments Closed

DORCHESTER — College Hype, the custom screen printing and embroidery company out of Dorchester and Weymouth, announced its “customer of the month”: Timberline Construction, founded by Steve Kelly, and located in Canton, Massachusetts. Steve’s company includes more than 140 employees between Timberline Construction Corp and Timberline Communications Inc. Upon receiving the recognition, Steve offered a few words about his company, which is marking its 20th anniversary this year. Q: How do you like working with…

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Memorial service held in Dorchester for woman slain in Ireland

January 17th, 2022 Comments Closed

DORCHESTER — The Irish Pastoral Center in Dorchester hosted a candlelight vigil to honor the life of Ashling Murphy, a 23-year-old woman who was murdered in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland. The vigil was held in the parking area behind Greenhills Bakery in Adams Corner on Sunday, January 16, 2022, because Ashling’s sister Amy worked at the bakery and the sisters are well known in the neighborhood. Thousands gathered in the US and Ireland to remember…

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Some answers to the question about a Boston visit by General MacArthur

January 11th, 2022 Comments Closed

MILTON — When we recently posted a photograph on Bill’s Facebook page asking for help in identifying people in a photograph, we got a great response. A few dozen comments and a dozen shares of the post with our notes, not only corrected some of our notes, but showed us a few things we hadn’t seen. The original post: “Calling all history buffs and eagle-eyed news hounds. Bill Brett’s friend Bob McAuliffe has this photo…

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The Great War: A reflection by Paul Doyle

November 10th, 2020 Comments Closed

Editor’s Note: The following was written by Paul Doyle, a friend of Bill Brett’s and this page, who lives in Weymouth and currently recuperating from back surgery. We offer these words to mark Veterans Day, November 11, which was started as “Armistice Day,” in 1919, the first anniversary of World War I. In 1926, the US Congress passed a resolution for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. By…

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