When residents said Onyx Management and Development's plans for six condos in three attached buildings at 45 Milton Ave. in Dorchester would lead to parking woes on the street, the company responded with a proposal for nine parking spaces in a backyard that would be taken up almost entirely by a driveway and the spaces, with room for just three or four potted shrubs. Read more.
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Police have found numerous shell casings at and near Fuller Street and Milton Avenue after hearing gunfire there around 10:05 p.m. No victims immediately reported or found, but a shot-up SUV with two flat tires that may have been involved was found abandoned a couple miles away at Adams and Mallett streets.
Boston Police report officers responding to a report of shots fired at Norfolk Street and Milton Avenue Wednesday evening arrested a Roxbury man with a loaded gun who was walking in the area. Read more.
Boston Police are identifying Ricardo Jamesy Washington, 24, of Roxbury, as the suspect in the shooting death of Donell Davis on Milton Avenue in Dorchester on May 8. Read more.
The Board of Appeals yesterday rejected a request from the owner of a Milton Avenue to legalize the way a previous owner enclosed its porches without a permit some 20 years ago, after neighbors objected to the way he was trying to sell the property to a non-profit group that helps house homeless families. Read more.
A contractor managed to take out a water main in the area of Milton Avenue and Spring Hill Road this afternoon, cutting off water to people along Milton Avenue. Read more.