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 - 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 - 12/8/24 - 3:27 pm
Boston firefighters responded to the house next to the KFC on Columbia Road in Edward Everett Square in Dorchester around 6:50 a.m. for what was quickly announced as a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - 10/27/24 - 3:08 pm
Boston Police report looking for a man they say tried to stab a clerk at the Uphams Corner Market, 521 Columbia Rd., 521 Columbia Road in Dorchester, failed, then whacked him with a Hot Pocket.
By adamg - 8/29/24 - 9:27 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports not everybody is enamored of a city proposal to do to Columbia Road between Blue Hill and Massachusetts avenues what happened on Columbus Avenue. Quotes one pizza-shop owner who predicts dedicated bus lanes would add 20 minutes to all his deliveries.
By adamg - 8/26/24 - 11:42 am
Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense. Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/24 - 10:22 am
A Worcester developer and a local architecture firm say they will soon file detailed plans for replacing the shuttered Dorchester Trust at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a two-story Boston Public Library branch and 33 affordable condos. Read more.
By adamg - 7/1/24 - 4:48 pm
A man who was driving down Columbia Road was shot at Columbia Road and Stanwood Street around 4 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 6/19/24 - 11:22 am
Boston Police report a guy pointed a gun at a man, robbed him of $140 and then beat him in the head with a gun, at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester around 12:35 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/24 - 3:33 pm
A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.
By adamg - 5/24/24 - 9:57 am
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges Thursday afternoon following a traffic stop at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 3/22/24 - 10:35 am
Boston Police report arresting a worker at the Burger King at Washington Street and Columbia Road in Dorchester for the way he allegedly used a knife to try to have it his way in a dispute with a patron Thursday morning. Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/23 - 1:44 pm
On April 24, 1949, an employee of the Boston Transportation Department took this shot of Blue Hill Avenue outbound at Columbia Road.
Note the trolleys on both roads (the reason both have paved medians -that's where the trolleys used to go) and compare to today's view: Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/23 - 12:25 pm
Transit and Boston Police report officers responded to a 16 bus Columbia Road near Edward Everett Square for a report of a man who "threatened passengers" with a gun, around 11 a.m. on Monday: Read more.
By adamg - 10/16/23 - 3:37 pm
Zackery Grandy, 25, today pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the strangulation death of his mother, Gisel Thomas, in their apartment on Columbia Road in Dorchester on Feb. 26, 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 9/29/23 - 9:58 am
Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old they say had "a Hi-Point C9 Luger with seven rounds in the magazine" in his jacket pocket around 6 p.m. yesterday at Columbia Road and Washington Street in Dorchester. Read more.
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