Will city snare this South Boston space saver?
Southie Spots acknowledges it's time for South Boston residents to face the music and remove their space savers, now that Mayor Walsh has changed his tune and begun beating the drum for less cluttered...
View ArticleSt. Patrick's parade could be canceled or moved
The snow's too damn high, the Globe reports. And yes, on Feb. 16, Mayor Walsh did promise the South Boston parade would go on.
View ArticleBPS names five schools to be shut this year
Interim Boston School Superintendent John McDonough last night released the names of the five schools he says need to be shut this year to save money: Community Academy in Jamaica Plain, Middle School...
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Man only robs banks on West Broadway between F and Dorchester streets
The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force reports a man who held up the Eastern Bank Branch at 470 W. Broadway last Monday while wearing a shamrock cap is probably the same guy who held up the branch on Jan....
View ArticleAndrew Square Tedeschi's?
Anyone know what closed this place down, and what's happening with it? Not the greatest store in of itself, but it was indeed a convenience to have it across from the T stop, open later than the other...
View ArticleToo much snow: St. Patrick's parade to stay in South Boston, but for only...
Mayor Walsh and parade organizers tonight agreed on a shortened St. Patrick's parade on March 15 that will go from Broadway station to Farragut Road.In a statement, the mayor added:This weekend,...
View ArticleYeah, they're wearing boxes on their heads - so?
Macleodphoto ambled about the Pax East show at the South Boston convention center today.Posted under this Creative Commons license.
View ArticleMan shot in Dartmouth Street robbery
Boston Police report officers found a man shot around 2 a.m. outside 102 Dartmouth St. Stanley Staco reports the man was also robbed.Police say they found a silver gun and a spent shell casing nearby....
View ArticleCNN trashes Boston, and the locals don't like it one bit
Eric Ballard spotted a CNN truck parked in South Boston (for the Tsarnaev trial?), and the trash bag its crew apparently left in the street - and a note from an outraged citzenry informing the network...
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Red sky in morning, but from the weatherfolks, no warning
Tim Colby watched the sun come up over Boston Harbor and the waterfront this morning. Despite the old weather rhyme, the National Weather Service predicts sunny skies today and tomorrow.Eileen Murphy...
View ArticleCongressman to march with gay vets in St. Patrick's parade
First-term US Rep. Seth Moulton will march with OUTVets in the St. Patrick's parade in South Boston this Sunday, the group says.Moulton, a Salem Democrat who is himself a Marine veteran of the second...
View ArticleBRA approves controversial South Boston condo project
The BRA today unanimously approved a developer's plan to turn the old Gate of Heaven school at 609 E. 4 St. into 26 condos - half of them units spanning two stories.Unusual for a project in a dense...
View ArticleBoston Pride says it's marching in Sunday's St. Patrick's Day parade
The LGBT group announced today: Boston Pride, which will commemorate its 45th anniversary as an organization celebrating the LGBT community in June, has been accepted by the South Boston Allied War...
View ArticleKnights of Columbus won't march in St. Patrick's Day parade; calls on...
The Massachusetts chapter of the Knights of Columbus vaguely blames somebody for forcing it to stay away:We deeply regret that some have decided to use this occasion to further the narrow objectives of...
View ArticleMan struck, killed by Red Line train in South Boston yard
Transit Police report somebody who didn't belong in the Cabot train yard off Dorchester Avenue was hit and killed by a train about 5:45 p.m.Police say the man was about 25. Foul play is not suspected.
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Wearin' o' the green
Arturo Gossage was among the thousands who lined Broadway today for the annual, if winter-shortened, St. Patrick's Day parade. At least today's (record breaking?) snow held off until after the parade...
View ArticlePolice: Luck of the Irish protected track-walking dumbass at Andrew last night
UPDATE: Warrant issued for his arrest after he failed to show up at his arraignment, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.Transit Police report arresting a Braintree lad who, on...
View ArticleABC to film pilot for Southie crime series with a distaff twist
Steve Schult noticed this notice on K Street tonight about a pilot ABC plans to film in South Boston about Boston's first crop of women cops in the 1970s. Deadline Hollywood describes the...
View ArticleSeaport to get new freight road, park
The Boston Business Journal reports Massport will use some land it bought from the MBTA between E. 1 Street and the Reserved Channel for a "freight corridor" that should take trucks off E. 1 and to...
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