Dorchester

Man shot on Vesta Road in Dorchester

By adamg - 4/14/24 - 9:49 pm

A man was shot in the right side of his chest inside a home on Vesta Road off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5 p.m.

VIP treatment at the Garden for a special guest

By adamg - 4/12/24 - 12:59 pm

VIP treatment all the way

Shamus Moynihan was on Causeway Street yesterday afternoon and watched the ride and escort a kid from Dorchester got from the Make a Wish Foundation on his way to fulfill his wish to meet the Celtics.

Alleged sadistic, slave-driving pizzeria owner indicted on Covid-fraud charges

By adamg - 4/9/24 - 10:23 pm

Stavros Papantoniadis, still behind bars as he awaits charges that he terrorized and beat employees at his Stash's pizza places in Dorchester and Roslindale, faces new charges that he defrauded a program meant to help small businesses stay afloat during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.

Musically oriented charter school in Dorchester wins approval for expansion of one of its buildings

By adamg - 4/9/24 - 1:08 pm

Rendering of proposed expanded lower Conservatory school

Bird-enhanced rendering of proposed new school front by CBT.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Conservatory Lab Charter School to add a cafeteria, gym and new classroom to its K1-to-grade-2 school at 131 Hancock St. in Dorchester. Read more.

Charges keep piling up against man authorities say collected deposits for a room in his Dorchester apartment, then wouldn't let the new tenants in

By adamg - 4/8/24 - 10:05 am

A Dorchester man now faces at least 21 charges in three different courts for the way he allegedly used Facebook Marketplace to scam people out of deposit money on a room in his apartment in a three decker on Taft Street in Dorchester. Read more.

Tensions rise over proposed new recovery campus and housing at Shattuck site

By adamg - 4/5/24 - 9:07 am

GBH reports on a City Council hearing on the state's and Boston Medical Center's proposal to rebuild the Shattuck Hospital site into the nation's largest substance-abuse-recovery campus.

Watch the hearing: Read more.

Lights out in the storm

By adamg - 4/4/24 - 9:48 am

Wind knocked over traffic lights at JFK/UMass

Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.

Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.

Man who just wanted to sell some sneakers was pistol whipped, then pushed out of his own car at the Harbor Point apartments in Dorchester

By adamg - 4/3/24 - 10:59 pm

UMass Boston Police sent out an alert that a man was carjacked at Harbor Point late this afternoon by somebody who had contacted him over SnapChat, allegedly to buy sneakers from him. Read more.

Party in Dorchester turns rowdy; cops attacked, three arrested, police say

By adamg - 4/1/24 - 9:38 am

Boston Police report arresting three people at a party on Sumner Square in Dorchester early Sunday. Read more.

Angry men whip out knives in Dorchester, Roxbury parks, one after having his request to join a basketball game denied, police say

By adamg - 3/31/24 - 3:08 pm

Boston Police report arresting two men for knife-related incidents at Roberts Playground in Dorchester and Malcolm X Park in Roxbury. Read more.

Man charged with a shooting near Ashmont station

By adamg - 3/30/24 - 12:03 pm

Boston Police report a man arrested Friday on gun charges was later also charged with shooting a man Talbot Avenue at Dorchester Avenue last Sunday, leaving the victim with life-threatening injuries. Read more.

Teen with a replica gun was robbing a convenience store a day in Dorchester - until detectives spotted him walking into another store, police say

By adamg - 3/30/24 - 11:44 am

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he robbed three convenience stores on Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street in Dorchester - just after he entered a fourth store on Friday. Read more.

Southern-style seafood restaurant could open in old Ashmont Grill space next month

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 2:59 pm

Three entrepreneurs hoping to replace the old Ashmont Grill at 555 Talbot Ave. at Dorchester Avenue with a seafood restaurant say they could begin "soft opening" next month, with a more formal grand opening in May. Read more.

Hyde Park to get an Open Streets pedestrian festival this summer

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:39 pm

Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.

Third man charged with December murder on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:05 pm

A South Boston man was arrested yesterday for his alleged role in the murder of Curtis Effee, 41, outside a Geneva Avenue apartment on Dec. 30. Read more.

Burger rage: Worker at Dorchester Burger King wields knife in confrontation with patron, police say

By adamg - 3/22/24 - 10:35 am

Boston Police report arresting a worker at the Burger King at Washington Street and Columbia Road in Dorchester for the way he allegedly used a knife to try to have it his way in a dispute with a patron Thursday morning. Read more.

Aggro tip-jar thieves hurl coffee at cop's face in fracas at South Bay Starbucks, police say

By adamg - 3/21/24 - 3:49 pm

Boston Police report arresting two people they say were busy busting up the Starbucks at 36 District Ave. in the fancy new section of the South Bay mall this morning when a detail cop tried to intervene only to come under attack from fists and a thrown cup of hot coffee. Read more.

Codman Square group remains fed up with fast food

By adamg - 3/21/24 - 9:19 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the Codman Square Neighborhood Council voted to oppose plans to turn the Oriental House Chinese place into a Boston Fried Chicken place in part because the square already has enough fast food, in the form of a McDonald's and a KFC. The group had earlier worked to keep a Popeyes out. The proposed operator objected to being thrown in with the Popeyes, though, because he planned to also offer "gyros, hamburgers, and salads."

Officer shot on Esmond Street in Dorchester

By adamg - 3/18/24 - 10:07 pm

Update: Man charged.

A Boston Police officer wearing a ballistic vest was shot outside 80 Esmond St. around 9:40 p.m., a couple minutes after he arrived with other officers to investigate a report of a man skulking around with a gun. Read more.

Dorchester-based electricians' union endorses Biden

By adamg - 3/18/24 - 3:14 pm

IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester today endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for re-election in November, calling them the head of the "most pro-union administration in our nation's history." Read more.