South Boston liquor store held up at gunpoint
Tue, 12/26/2017 - 22:00The Liquor and Wine Emporium, 336 K St., was held up at gunpoint around 10 p.m. by a white man, about 6' and medium build, in a black ski mask and all black clothes.Free tagging:...
View ArticleFrozen channel
See it larger.Adam Castiglioni reports Fort Point Channel is freezing up.
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: South Boston tells the South End to shut up...
Somebody in the South End has been filing 311 complaints about airplanes. Somebody in South Boston who faithfully scans 311 complaints files a complaint about the airplane complaints:By the way you...
View ArticleState warns Expressway motorists
UPDATE: Ye olde ed. got caught by a meme. The message isn't real.The State Police's Dustin Fitch shows us the sign flashing a warning on the Southeast Expressway into town this morning.
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Seaport Boulevard, Atlantic Avenue live up to their names; flooding all along...
See it larger.Miss Lippy reports Seaport Boulevard and Northern Avenue along the South Boston Waterfront have flooded and are getting worse. Video.Christina Pazzanese reports:Entire Fort Point and...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Hobbesian post-snow war for the parking spaces...
At 9:28 p.m. on Friday, an outatowna in South Boston for the weekend to bar hop (OK, he or she actually said the purpose of the visit is to "bar hope," which works just as well) filed a 311 complaint...
View ArticleSouthie space saver of the day: Take some candy and leave
A roving UHub photographer spotted this space saver on F Street around 12:30 p.m. today: Would-be parkers are invited to take some candy - and a noisemaker - and then just keep on circling.And what...
View ArticleIn rare unanimity, bicyclists, motorists and pedestrians all agree: Boston...
One of the new "protected" bike lanes on Beacon Street in Audubon Circle is currently protected from bicyclists, P. Cheung reports.Sheri Ann Cheng, meanwhile, pleaded with the city to do better plowing...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Some idiot used a can of magenta paint as a...
A peeved citizen files a 311 report about the stealth (and booby-trap?) space saver he or she ran over at West 2 Street and Dorchester Avenue in South Boston Tuesday afternoon:A full can of magenta...
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Why they call it Fan Pier
Click to see it larger.In 1903, when Walker & Co. published this bird's eye view of the area around Fort Point Channel, trains were still king and Boston was full of freight yards, such as the New...
View ArticleSouth Boston church to neighbors: You don't like condos? Fine, we'll replace...
The Globe reports on plans by Gate of Heaven Church and the Archdiocese of Boston to turn the old Gate of Heaven school into rubble after several years of church officials failing to convince neighbors...
View ArticleA little introspection by the Globe's business columnist?
News that GE is in a spot of financial trouble has set Shirley Leung to thinking about the $60 million the state spent on buying those Fort Point buildings for GE (and the $60 million it set aside for...
View ArticlePolice arrest two they say were driving around Southie with rifles in a PT...
Fri, 01/19/2018 - 02:00Boston Police report arresting two men they say were driving around South Boston early Friday in a silver PT Cruiser with two rifles, three black gloves, a black ski mask,...
View ArticleState Sen. Dorcena Forry stepping down to take a job with John Fish
Linda Dorcena Forry announced today she formally resigns tomorrow to become a vice president at Fish's Suffolk Construction.Dorcena Forry, then a state representative from Dorchester, won her senate...
View ArticleAssociated Press needs to update its Stylebook: People from South Boston are...
The Associated Press sent a story out over the wire about Dana White, a guy from Southie who has gotten rich arranging fights involving people in a cage trying to beat each other up. It's the ultimate...
View ArticleState sets April 3 and May 1 for elections to replace Dorcena Forry
The state Senate decided today to set an April 3 primary and a May 1 final election to select a replacement for Linda Dorcena Forry, who resigned on Friday as the senator for the 1st Suffolk District...
View ArticleThere's a reason GE said it would put all the key mechanical stuff in its new...
Brandy shows us the flooding starting this morning along the South Boston side of Fort Point Channel.Earlier:New GE building would be designed to withstand a 500-year flood.
View ArticleNot all South Boston construction approved: Board rejects addition to triple...
The Board of Appeals today rejected a triple-decker owner's request to extend the three floors of his building at 712 East 6 St. after the mayor's office, newly elected City Councilor Ed Flynn and...
View ArticleKing Canute couldn't hold back the tide, but State Street Corp. hopes some...
Peter Franchi snapped the barriers State Street put up outside its building off A Street near Fort Point Channel today in anticipation of super-moon-caused high tides spilling over into the street.
View ArticleEntrepreneur rolled through Southie, selling pot out of his pickup; no word...
Boston Police report arresting a Revere man they say loaded up his pickup with cannibis products - including pot-laced Rice Krispy treats and chocolate-chip cookies - then drove down O'Callaghan Way...
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