The Boston Licensing Board today approved a proposed Papa John's at 1501 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner after the franchisee agreed to add salads, and possibly other healthy offerings to its menu - and to require all delivery drivers to make pickups through a rear door rather than clogging up the already crowded street out front. Read more.
Update: Food-serving license approved.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to a Papa John's franchisee for an outlet at 1501 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester's Field's Corner. Read more.
Rendering by Stack and Co.
The family that owns Down Home Delivery & Catering at 2 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester's Four Corners has filed plans to replace their building with a seven-story apartment building - with ground-floor space for their restaurant to move back into. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 128 Capen St., near Fuller Street in Dorchester, for what turned into a two-alarm fire around 7:15 p.m.
The department reports the fire displaced 15 residents, but that none were injured.
A fed-up resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about a guy who is always playing his bagpipes in Adams-King Playground in Dorchester: Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he held up a convenience store at Park and Norwell streets in Dorchester last Wednesday. Read more.
The Globe reports a federal judge yesterday sentenced Stash's owner Stavros Papantoniadis, 49, of Westwood, to 8 1/2 years in federal prison for his conviction in June on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor after a trial that included accounts of him bullying, beating and harassing his workers for years. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports several hundred people gathered Sunday at the Old Dorchester North Burial Ground in Uphams Corner to learn more about the historic cemetery, one of the oldest in Boston, but rarely open to the public.
Domingos DaRosa makes a point.
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
NBC Boston reports on the stabbing, around 9:45 p.m. on Monday outside the Allstate Road restaurant.
Two people were shot, one in the head, on Glenway Street at Maybrook Street around 1:40 a.m. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the McDonald's at 500 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester's Fields Corner to extend its current midnight closing time to 3 a.m. - but only for pick ups by third-party delivery services, so burger-mad night owls will have to punch in their orders at home.
Nobody objected to the plan at a hearing yesterday. The franchisee at the location already operates similar wee-hour pickup service in Allston and at TD Garden.
Three local newsrooms have won $100,000 grants to bolster local news coverage in the Boston area, from a group called Press Forward, which is trying to reinvigorate really local journalism. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Canton man for a double shooting inside a Four Corners barbershop that left Elijah Ricardo Clunie, 20, of Dorchester, dead. Read more.
Aline Boucher Kaplan photographed the flowers, photo and condolences book the JFK Library and Museum put out to honor Ethel Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's wife and a human-rights activist, who died today at 96.
Rendering of proposed townhouses, showing Johnson home to the left.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday rejected a local developer's plans to replace a decrepit row of eleven garage parking spaces with five townhouse condominiums after a hearing at which residents angrily rejected the proposal and the developer's lawyer felt compelled to swear an oath as "an attorney and officer of the court" that he wasn't lying. Read more.
Rendering by Stefanov Architects
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the family that has long owned two one-story commercial building at Dudley and Virginia streets in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a six-story, 48-unit apartment building. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Zontre Mack, 21, of Canton, guilty of first-degree murder for the way he killed 15-year-old Curtis Ashford Jr. on July 27, 2022, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report officers responding to a ShotSpotter activation for gunfire at Westville and Ditson streets in Dorchester's Fields Corner around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday found a man with a gun in his left pocket. Read more.
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