State-senate battle won't be between state reps from South Boston and...
The Dorchester Reporter reports that state Rep. Nick Collins (D-South Boston) will run for the seat he couldn't win in a battle four years ago against state Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester). But...
View ArticleSouth Boston could get a JP Licks
Eileen Murphy reports JP Licks is looking to mooove into the space at 397 W. Broadway once occupied by the Cutting Club hair salon.There's a meeting, put on by the city and the landlord, for neighbors...
View ArticleIf there were a French Toast Alert for Super Bowls, we'd be at Red now
Eileen Murphy shows us the state of one chips display at the South Boston Stop & Shop around 4:30 p.m. She reports:Nacho chips flying out of store, but sour cream & salsa holding up. Few veggie...
View ArticleMeat pies KOed in South Boston today
UPDATE: KO Pies reports the blocking was by a contractor working for Verizon, that the shop will be able to re-open today and that Verizon swore that, in the future, any similar work would only be done...
View ArticleAnother state rep joins race for state-senate seat Dorcena Forry left
The Dorchester Reporter reports that state Rep. Evandro Carvalho, first elected in 2014, says he is running for the 1st Suffolk state-senate seat in the April 3 Democratic primary. State Rep. Nick...
View ArticleWoman robbed at gunpoint in South Boston
Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:20A woman was held up around 10:20 a.m. on East 8 Street at H Street by a man with a silver handgun, who was described as tall and skinny and wearing a black ski mask, a black hat...
View ArticleSouth Boston city councilor says his female constituents aren't SMILFs
New City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) can claim his first victory: Getting posters for the TV series "SMILF" removed from city bus shelters.In a broadside against...
View ArticleMan charged with sexually attacking woman at Broadway T stop
Mon, 02/05/2018 - 19:17Transit Police report arresting a Somerville man they say grabbed a woman from behind as she went up the escalator at the Broadway Red Line station Monday night.Read more.Free...
View ArticleSMILF star challenges South Boston councilor to actually watch her show
Frankie Shaw, the creator and star of that SMILF show, suggests City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) should maybe watch some of her episodes first before yammering...
View ArticleBefore UMass, Harbor Point and the JFK Library, there was the Calf Pasture
See it larger. Or even larger.This 1923 aerial photo from the Boston Planning Commission shows the MDC's Calf Pasture sewage pumping station and some nearby gas tanks, Old Harbor and South Boston's...
View ArticleBroadway bar to offer sandwiches
In Boston, it's not just enough to pay for a food-serving license - you actually have to serve food. And not just any food, but food you've cooked or prepared on your own premises.The owner of Croke...
View ArticleBroadway station gets all floody
pic.twitter.com/QHcsnYsFag— Robert Fallon (@Bobisunverified) February 18, 2018Good thing we didn't have any real flooding today, no? Robert Fallon shows us the cascading water in the Broadway Red Line...
View ArticleWhen it gets this warm, you open the windows
Eileen Murphy noticed the firefighters had opened the garage doors and most of the windows at her neighborhood firehouse in South Boston today.
View ArticleBoston says raising parking-meter fees increased parking-meter availability...
Increasing parking-meter fees from $1.25 to $3.75 an hour in the Back Bay last year meant less congestion on local roads, because fewer people were willing to shell out the extra money - which had the...
View ArticleRed Line service shut in South Boston after train, track fail in a blast of...
Seth Hardy was at Andrew when the inbound train had a serious meltdown shortly before 9:30 a.m. Kyle Thomas, who was on the train, writes:I was just on a @mbta train that basically exploded. Shards of...
View ArticleMan shot to death in South Boston
Thu, 02/22/2018 - 00:13Boston Police report a man was shot shortly after midnight at Patterson Way and Rev. Burke Street in the Old Colony development. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was...
View ArticlePedestrian critically injured in South Boston crash
Alertpageboston reports a pedestrian was struck shortly before 6:30 p.m. at Broadway and H Street. The BPD homicide and fatal-accident units were called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
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Stunting dirt bikers, quad riders jam up Expressway; cops respond in force,...
I-93 after the cops moved in. Photo by Annabelle Blake.A large group of masked riders on dirt and quad bikes who spent the stunting, blocking traffic and scaring pedestrians on streets around Boston...
View ArticleZoning board listens to City Point neighbors, rejects multi-unit proposal...
The Board of Appeals today denied a developer's request to replace a two-family home at 37 Farragut Rd. with a four-story, eight-unit building after neighbors pleaded they'd had enough with developers...
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