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A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to reuse part of the former Mount Sinai Baptist Church at Wellington Hill Street and Greendale Road at Morton Street in Mattapan to create a five-story, 27-unit condo building. Read more.
Victim identified as Savion Ellis.
Boston Police report finding a 12-year-old with a fatal gunshot wound at 35 Fessenden St. around 2:05 p.m. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports that Gov. Healey has picked Stephanie Everett, currently head of the Boston Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, to replace Felix Arroyo as Suffolk County register of probate and family court, at least through the end of Arroyo's term in 2024. The nomination requires the approval of the Governor's Council.
The Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association and other civic groups will host an online forum for the four candidates running to represent District 5 - Roslindale, Hyde Park and Mattapan - at 7 p.m. on July 18.
Incumbent Ricardo Arroyo faces challenges from Jean Claude Sanon, Enrique Pepén and Jose Ruiz.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on attempted-murder and other charges for his alleged role in post-July Fourth shootings at River Street and Edgewater Drive in Mattapan Square that sent five to the hospital. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a guy on charges he pointed a loaded gun at another man around midnight at 550 River St. in Mattapan. Read more.
City Council President Ed Flynn has some thoughts on Councilor Kendra Lara's car crash and Councilor Ricardo Arroyo's ethics fine last week: Read more.
Boston Police report arresting three people and seizing three guns after five people were shot at a large, impromptu fireworks display around 2 a.m. at Edgewater Drive and River Street in Mattapan. Read more.
Update: Three arrested, three guns seized.
Live Boston reports five people were shot at River Street and Edgewater Drive around 2 a.m., at a scene littered with hundreds of spent fireworks.
The state Ethics Commission reported yesterday that City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) has paid a $3,000 fine for not withdrawing as a lawyer, after his election, from the lawsuit his brother, former City Councilor and mayoral aide Felix Arroyo, filed against the city over his firing. Read more.
The Bay State Banner lists the City Council races that could have contested races this fall, including the four at-large seats and Districts 3 (Dorchester), 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, part of Mission Hill) and 7 (Roxbury).
The Dorchester Reporter provides an update on the MBTA's plans to replace the current 1940s trolleys on the Mattapan Line with more recent Green Line trolleys: It could take a decade to get everything ready and would involve the elimination of the current loop track at Ashmont.
Transit Police report that when a Route 28 driver stopped to pick up three teens outside the BPL branch on Blue Hill Avenue around 1 a.m. on Monday, they whipped out pellet guns and began shooting the driver.
Despite their close range, the three did not injure the driver, police say, adding they then ran away.
The Boston Fire Department reports a rear-deck fire at 571 Cummins Highway in Mattapan quickly went to two alarms. Read more.
Boston Police report officers arrested a Mattapan man on gun charges after initially pulling him over for running a red light at Cummins Highway and Harvard Street in Mattapan shortly before 5:30 p.m. today. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter visits the new the Edgewater Drive Food Forest, created on a 6,000-square-foot city-owned vacant lot.
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Gavyn Henry, 37, of Mattapan.
Two men were shot, possibly both in the chest, on Wildwood Street, near Morton Street in Mattapan, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by a company to lease a former Catholic school at 120-124 Babson St. for use as 14 affordable apartments for seniors with an adult daycare center on the ground floor. Read more.
The FBI has joined the Boston Police search for a man they say has held up four convenience stores at gunpoint in Hyde Park and Mattapan in recent months. Read more.
Two 18-year-olds and a younger teen were arrested at Mattapan station Sunday afternoon after they allegedly beat up two men - one who asked them to stop smoking on a trolley and one who tried to break up the fight - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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