Charlestown
Somebody fired around 10 rounds in the area of 105 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 9 p.m. No victims, but at least two cars hit by bullets.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans by Jack Kelly III of Charlestown to open a dispensary at 31 Cambridge St., a short distance from an existing dispensary. Read more.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say held up the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown Sunday night. Read more.
Eric Bender photographed the USS Nantucket, docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard today. The Nantucket is a $500-million "littoral combat ship," aimed at close-to-shore operations, but which have been plagued with problems. Read more.
Chelsea Scanner was up before the new sunrise this morning to capture dawn's early light over the Tobin and the Mystic River.
Shortly after 6 p.m., a cannon onboard Old Ironsides misfired and seemed to have lobbed a projectile at a building on the grounds of the Charlestown Navy Yard. Read more
Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a broken gas lamp on Essex Street in Charlestown: Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Ismail Mohamed, 40, to six to eight years in state prison and three years of probation for the way he beat a woman until her face swelled up, then used a razor blade to slice her face, he claimed, to reduce the swelling, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon considers the decision by Sean O’Brien, a Medford native who worked his way up from Teamsters Local 25 in Charlestown to become president of the national union, not to have the union make an endorsement in this year's presidential election. It notes that a number of Teamsters locals have endorsed Harris, including Local 122 in Dorchester.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve Matthew Sullivan's plan to change his eponymous Sullivan's Public House at 85-87 Main St. in Charlestown into a taco joint called Town Taqueria. Read more.
The Charlestown Neighborhood Council is setting up a Soccer Stadium Committee to ensure Charlestown has some say on the 25,000-seat soccer stadium Robert Kraft wants to build just over the line in Everett, near the casino, the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports.
Ari Ofsevit reports he had to sit on on the luggage rack in a very crowded Silver Line bus this afternoon but at least he got a good view of the sunset over the Tobin Bridge.
Matt Frank watched the sun go down in East Boston through the haze of western fires over Charlestown this evening.
The Supreme Judicial Court yesterday overturned Julio Baez's first-degree murder sentence, saying prosecutors failed to provide evidence that Baez knew the men who actually did gun down Ryan Morrissey on Main Street in Charlestown in 2014 were planning to shoot him. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to the Boston Autoport off Terminal Street in Charlestown after some electrical equipment caught on fire around 8:30 p.m. in the engine room of the Symphony, which had arrived in Boston from Dublin earlier in the day. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say held up the Charlestown Whole Foods, 27 Austin St., around 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
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