Fresh off awarding some three dozen new alcohol licenses, the Boston Licensing Board today began interviewing a new set of applicants for some of the beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses the state legislature last year approved for 13 specific Boston Zip codes: Read more.
By adamg - 2/26/25 - 12:21 pm
WBUR reports the five employees fired on orders of the Musk administration are back on the job.
By adamg - 2/25/25 - 10:23 pm
Stavros Papantoniadis, already serving an 8 1/2-year federal prison sentence for physically and mentally abusing immigrant workers at pizza shops in Dorchester, Roslindale and Norwood, today pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal Covid-19 relief fund out of $500,000 for a Randolph pizza place he no longer owned. Read more.
By adamg - 2/25/25 - 10:45 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a three-story, 12-unit apartment building on what are now city-owned vacant lots at 23 Nottingham St. in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 3:23 pm
WBUR visited the JFK Library today, and fills in some details of its sudden closing yesterday:
" People were crying. It was surreal," she said. "We were with a gentleman who had just come in from Canada who said, 'I don't understand what's happening in your country.' "
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:36 am
The Neponset River Greenway Council reports the same flooding that forced a water rescue on the Mattapan Line also covered the riverside trail "near the Baker Dam and under the Adams Street Bridge" and of course all that water froze and now the council is recommending you avoid the trail or "travel with caution" until the ice melts.
By adamg - 2/13/25 - 10:14 am
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Side Chick, 692 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Nobody spoke against the change at a hearing yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 7:46 pm
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that the chain, long kept out of Boston by Tom Menino, is looking to move into Dorchester and Mattapan, with the backing of Mattapan state Rep. Russell Holmes, who says he's looking for "a Chick-fil-A in Black Dorchester, or [anywhere] in Dorchester" with local franchise owners.
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 9:49 am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Aizavier Roache, 31, to 4 3/4 years in prison for selling at least six guns he'd obtained from a pal who bought them at gun shops in South Carolina. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 9:21 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman found dead of stab wounds inside 43 Claybourne St. in Dorchester around 2:45 p.m. on Monday.
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 2:45 pm
A judge in US District Court in Boston yesterday sentenced Devante "D-Lopes" Lopes, 31, of Quincy to five years in prison and James "Bummy" Rodrigues, 34, of Boston to 3 1/2 years in prison for their roles in Dorchester's Cameron Street gang, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/25 - 10:20 am
A man drove into at house at 167 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester around 2:15 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 1/23/25 - 11:11 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports on an early morning crash that left a car embedded in the Ashmont Nursery School at Washington and Ashmont streets in Dorchester.
By adamg - 1/22/25 - 1:07 pm
Sometime before 7:40 a.m., the driver of a Corolla slammed into a traffic-light pole on the southbound side of Blue Hill Avenue at Columbia Road in Dorchester, sending the pole slamming down across the road and creating an instant traffic jam. No serious injuries, at least.
By adamg - 1/22/25 - 10:55 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports Harbor Point resident and Corcoran Jennison Companies are asking state regulators to reconsider their approval of the $5-billion Dorchester Bay City project, arguing, among other things, the development would lead to even more flooding on the peninsula.
By adamg - 1/21/25 - 11:26 pm
Victim identified as Kareem DaVeiga-Booth, 20, of Brighton.
A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 1/17/25 - 5:13 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Dwight "Dog Bite" Watson to life, but with the possibility of parole after 18 years, after he admitted stabbing Urvin Gerald, 58, in the parking lot of the Mount Horeb Lodge on Harvard Street in Dorchester on July 16, 2022. Read more.
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