The Dorchester Reporter reports workers today carted away the howitzer that long sat outside the American Legion Old Dorchester Post 65 next to the Eire Pub, because the post was shut recently and sold to a developer planning a building aimed at people between 55 and 65. The gun is being given to a veterans post on the Cape.
Update: Board concluded the attack was unforeseeable and not due to anything the post did or didn't do, so no licensing violation.
The Boston Licensing Board could decide Thursday whether an American Legion post in Dorchester could have prevented a man getting punched and knocked into unconsciousness on Dec. 27, leaving him so close to death police called in the homicide unit just in case. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Kenneth Blasi permission to buy out his brother Joseph and re-open Blasi Cafe, 762 Adams St. in Dorchester. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Blasi's Cafe, 762 Adams St. in Dorchester, is seeking to re-open.
Blasi's was heavily damaged in a two-alarm fire in September, 2017.
Jeffrey Cincotta says he's planning an osteria for 789 Adams St. in Dorchester that will feature "Italian comfort food," including pizza from a wood-fired oven and fresh pasta and sauces. Read more.
WBZ reports the death of Brian Hingston early Sunday outside the Eire Pub on Adams Street.
Friends have set up an online funding page to help his family.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a liquor license for a proposed restaurant at the site of a long abandoned video store in Adams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the 4:15 p.m. incident on Gallivan Boulevard in which an occupant of one car opened fire on the occupants of another car.
UPDATE: Max found OK, tied to a post in Quincy.
News around Dorchester reports:
This poor dog is Max. He was taken from the corner of Adams Street and Gallivan Boulevard. The owner secured him to a pole as he had in the past to run into the store. and that is when Someone took him . If you were in the area from 8:00pm- 9:00 pm last night and remember anything please contact Boston Police. The family is obviously devastated.
John Graham, 18, was ordered held without bail today on charges he murdered an Irish man after the annual Adams Corner Irish festival last fall and then shot two more men in a robbery attempt three weeks later, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
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