EDITORIAL: Mayor must end divisive library fight By Ed Forry Apr. 22, 2010 It’s time for Mayor Menino and his administration to stop their divisive and ill-conceived push to close public libraries —including the one in Dorchester Lower Mills. Menino should formally withdraw his library board’s recommendation to close the four branches from his proposed [...]

Editorial: Reverse the vote to close the Lower Mills library By Bill Forry Oct. 20, 2010 A meeting at the Lower Mills library on Monday evening could well decide the fate of that branch and, ultimately, branches throughout Dorchester and across the city at large. It is now time for all people who feel — [...]

EDITORIAL: A road forward for BPL branches By Bill Forry Jun. 24, 2010 There was a breakthrough this week in the effort to save four Boston Public Library branches, including the one in Lower Mills, that were slated for closure earlier this year. The battle, however, is far from over. First, the library’s trustees, at [...]

EDITORIAL: Lower Mills won’t be steamrolled by city By Bill Forry Sep. 22, 2010 Mayor Menino and his administration are fooling themselves if they think that neighbors in Lower Mills are prepared to give up in the fight to keep our branch library open. Any discussion about the BPL’s services in Lower Mills needs to [...]

Editorial-Menino, appointees add insult to injury in Lower Mills By Bill Forry May. 27, 2010 Tom Menino’s mission to shutter perfectly good neighborhood libraries took another unfortunate turn this week. The mayor’s office — in collaboration with his appointees at the Boston Public Library — orchestrated a farce of a meeting at Carney Hospital on [...]

Library closings across the city diminish us all By Ed Forry Apr. 15, 2010 “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, [...]