Writing in the Pilot, Thomas Lester explains how the main route between Roslindale and Mattapan squares was named for Roslindale's first Catholic pastor, who helped set up what is now Sacred Heart Church on Brown Avenue at what is now one of Boston's non-highway highways.
The Dorchester Reporter has the details on the $32-million project that will stretch into 2025 and include new signals, bike lanes, wider sidewalks, new trees and a roundabout at roundabout at the Weybosset/Greenwood Street intersection.
Mayor Wu announced today that the city's dipping some more into its federal Covid relief funds to continue paying to let riders get on the 23, 28 and 29 buses for free for another two years. Read more.
A personal care assistant for a 95-year-old woman in Dorchester faces charges that she withdrew $120,000 from her client's bank account, stole $30,000 in rent payments from a tenant in the woman's house and then forced the house into foreclosure, by taking out a reverse mortgage on it, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A man was stabbed inside 442 River St. in Mattapan around 9:50 p.m. on Wednesday. Due to the severity of his injuries, the homicide unit was called in, just in case. Read more.
Rendering by Context.
A Quincy developer has filed plans with the BPDA to build a five-story, 42-unit apartment building at 819 Cummins Highway, on what are now four vacant lots next to the Fairmount Line train tracks and across from the newly constructed Cote Village Apartments. Read more.
A Mattapan man on parole after serving an eight-year federal sentence for sex trafficking a minor was sentenced to 33 more months behind bars last week for witness intimidation, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
Mattapan Line riders had to take a bus for most of the day because of a cavalcade of trolley problems today. WCVB reports that when a trolley died at Butler this morning, the T sent out another trolley to try to push it to the Mattapan yard. But then that trolley died. So the T sent out a third trolley to push the two newly deceased trolleys down the short line. It died, too.
Live Boston reports (with photos) a man on the second floor of 50 Fairlawn Ave. shot at firefighters responding to a fire on the first floor around 11:30 a.m.
Firefighters were able to put out the fire, in part by taking care to stay out of view of the second-floor window. After two hours, a BPD SWAT team was able to take the barricaded man into custody.
The State House News Service reports on the experiences of Attorney General - and former Boston city councilor - Andrea Campbell, whose Mattapan neighbor was recently arrested on drug-dealing charges, after Campbell and other neighbors had been complaining to ISD for years about the "problem property."
The FCC last week warned the owners of eight properties - including a church on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester - that they have two weeks to shut down the unlicensed radio stations emanating from their buildings or face fines of more than $2.3 million per station. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for a man convicted of gunning down Marcus Hall behind a Blue Hill Avenue barbershop, where Hall had brought his four-year-old son for a haircut on June 14, 2016. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 17 Rector Rd. in Mattapan around 10:30 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
City housing officials and the local architects' association are asking builders what it would take for them to put up new housing "inspired by triple deckers" on two city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester and River Street in Mattapan. Read more.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on Itasca Street, where neither residents nor the city's BTD ticketing crew seem to know just which side of the street is OK to park on on street-sweeping days: Read more.
The Bay State Banner considers what the arrival of a Starbucks at the strip mall on River Street on the Hyde Park/Mattapan line might say about impending gentrification.
Live Boston report on the aftermath of a rollover around 10 p.m. on Monday at 390 Norfolk St..
Transit Matters runs the numbers and finds that two-week shutdown of the Red Line's Ashmont branch and the Mattapan Line seems to have worked: The trains are back to their 2018 trip times.
Rendering by Arrowstreet.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a 41-unit, five-story apartment building at 1471 Blue Hill Ave. at Culbert Street in Mattapan. Read more.
Bird-enhanced rendering by Embarc Studio.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved another year-long extension to a developer proposing a 40-units apartment building at 30 Thorn St. off River Street - the fourth such extension since the project was first approved in 2018. Read more.
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