The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to build 26 affordable condos on three city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue, between Olney and Everton streets, and a fourth vacant lot on Eunice Street in Dorchester. Read more.
Rendering by Anthony Pisani, showing new wings coming off existing house in center.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to expand a 3-family house at 16 High St. in Dorchester to nine units, following a hearing that turned into a mini-debate about the future of Meetinghouse Hill and Dorchester's other residential hills - Jones, Popes and Savin. Read more.
State House News Service reports the owner of St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester has filed for Chap. 11 bankruptcy, which is the kind where they get to keep operating as they try to shake off most of their debts and emerge all shiny and new and healthy so they can dump more money into the pockets of the sort of avaricious vulture capitalists that got them into trouble in the first place. Oh, dear, was that going too far?
Photo of seized weapon by Transit PD.
Transit Police report "a large affray amongst juveniles" at the JFK/UMass T stop around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday ended with four teenagers under arrest, one after he allegedly tried to shank another combatant with a knife that could be disguised as a pen.
Boston Police report arresting two alleged package thieves and one shoplifter over the past week, two at Washington and Morse streets in Dorchester and one at 108 River St. in Mattapan. Read more.
A man was ordered held in lieu of $2 million bail today on charges he joined with another man in a bullet barrage that sent five people, two children, 14 and 11, on Ames Street to the hospital last September, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The co-owner of Economy Plumbing and Heating Supply on Morton Street in Mattapan was charged yesterday with filing false federal tax returns for several years so he could buy $10 million worth of gold - and silver - bars, the US Attorney's office in Boston announced. Read more.
A man who was charged in Dorchester court in March with raping three underage teens was arraigned last week on additional charges, including child rape, videoing the girls in the act and forcing them to sell drugs for him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Two letter carriers were held up in Dorchester this morning, one on Mora Street around 11:15 a.m., and the second about ten minutes later and a couple blocks away on Fuller Street.
In the Mora case, the suspect appeared to have a gun. In the other case, the robber tried to grab the mailman's master mailbox key, but failed to get it. In both cases, the robber got away in a white sedan.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Mohammed Chowdhury, 47, to 92 months in federal prison for trying to hire somebody to kill his wife after she kicked him out of their house and took up with another man - whom he also wanted dead. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on a remembrance in Fields Corner of "Black April" - when Saigon fell and thousands of people fled the Communists. Many of those refugees settled in the Dorchester neighborhood.
Javare Sommerville-Adams, 17, up from Providence for the annual Caribbean Carnival, was standing at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road enjoying the celebration on the morning of Aug. 28, 2021 when a man he didn't know standing near him plunged a knife into his neck. Read more.
Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver for speeding in the area of Washington and Erie streets Friday night wound up arresting him for the gun with the "extended magzine" and the 22 bullets loaded into it they found in his car. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the Wahlburgers in the new wing of the South Bay mall has closed down. Over in the original wing of the mall, meanwhile, an Applebee's and an Olive Garden remain open.
The Dorchester Reporter delivers the news that Fields Corner Main Streets is leading a battle to keep a Papa Johns franchise out of a vacant storefront in an area that already has several pizza places. The group says that anybody truly desperate for a Papa Johns pie can get one delivered via Uber Eats and that what the neighborhood really needs is a place that doesn't duplicate what's already available.
A man was shot in the right side of his chest inside a home on Vesta Road off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5 p.m.
Shamus Moynihan was on Causeway Street yesterday afternoon and watched the ride and escort a kid from Dorchester got from the Make a Wish Foundation on his way to fulfill his wish to meet the Celtics.
Stavros Papantoniadis, still behind bars as he awaits charges that he terrorized and beat employees at his Stash's pizza places in Dorchester and Roslindale, faces new charges that he defrauded a program meant to help small businesses stay afloat during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.
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