Up and at 'em in South Boston
M and David Farragut watched the sun come up over Pleasure Bay this morning.
View ArticleJudge halts blasting in Boston Harbor tomorrow over fears it could collapse...
One thing the Trump shutdown didn't end was a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to set off explosives at the bottom of Boston Harbor tomorrow to deepen a shipping channel. It took a judge to do...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Ice as far as the eye can see, and it's all the...
Complaints are ice-flowing into 311 about unshoveled sidewalks across our frozen tundra of a city, from Brighton to Charlestown to Jamaica Plain (where ice is ice, says Stan) and to the...
View ArticlePerson under Red Line train at Broadway
UPDATE: Both firefighters and police departed the tracks at 3:05 p.m.; service resumed around 3:35 p.m.Boston firefighters are on scene trying to extricate the person.The MBTA reports it is running...
View ArticleLights out on West 1st Street
Look at all that snow! Eileen Murphy ran across these faux French-provincial space savers on West 1st between E and F this evening, should you need something for your living-room end tables.
View ArticleSouth Boston restaurant could make way for, no, not condos, but biotech
Two developers want to build a six-story life-sciences building on the West 3rd Street parcel now occupied by the Coppersmith restaurant, the one with the food truck inside.Alexandra Real Estate...
View ArticleCouncilors call for delay in city review of residential development at South...
City Councilors Michael Flaherty (at large) and Ed Flynn (South Boston) want the BPDA to shove developer's plans for more than 1,300 condos and apartments at the old L Street power station into a...
View ArticleFrom the auto yards of East Boston to the museums of the Fenway, Bostonians...
Greg Cook Danilchuk Auto Body's annual Super Bowl prediction in East Boston.Along the South Boston Waterfront, people - and cute, fluffy baby goats - made their preferences clear:@SeaportShrine knows...
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BFD saves Pleasure Bay swimmer from drowning
Bringing the victim to shore. Photo by BFD.The Boston Fire Department reports that around 9:40 a.m., its dive team rescued a 12-year-old dog who swam out too far in Pleasure Bay and then couldn't get...
View ArticleWhat did we say about not climbing trees?
Dave Shea captured this Darwin Award contestant outside Liberty Wharf on Northern Avenue after the Patriots parade.
View ArticleMan charged with sending bogus warning about mass-murder threat against South...
A Brazilian national living in Quincy was arrested yesterday on charges related to what turned out to be a bogus letter sent to federal immigration officials warning of an imminent attack against a...
View ArticleCouncilor says his constituents are fed up with slob construction workers...
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) wants to do something about construction workers he says are starting earlier finishing later than allowed and leaving the streets...
View ArticlePolice charge South Boston smoke shop with reefer and gummy-worm madness
Photo of some of the confiscated goods by BPD.The owner of King Smoke Shop, 600 East Broadway in South Boston, was arrested along with one of his clerks today on charges they were selling marijuana...
View ArticleRed sky in the morning, T riders take warning
Johnmcboston woke up to a reddish sunrise over South Boston this morning.Red sky in the morning, sailors’ warning. Storm coming later today, but a good sunrise is always nice to wake up...
View ArticleSouth Boston property owner proposes new residential building with more...
Architect's rendering.The owners of a decades-old South Boston electric contracting firm has filed plans for a four-story, 25-unit residential building on East 3rd St., between O and P streets - with...
View ArticleParents of South Boston toddler killed by careening van hope to fund...
WBZ interviews Kerri and Brendan McGrath, whose 2-year-old son, Colin, died when two cars collided at L and East 6th streets and one ran into him last July. They've set up Colin's Joy Project to help...
View ArticleGE to give back $87 million in tax breaks because it no longer plans an...
WBUR reports on what happens when your company shrinks like spinach in a frying pan. But don't worry, what's left of GE will still call Boston home.
View ArticleWoman robs South Boston bank once a year; FBI hopes to put an end to that
Wed, 02/13/2019 - 14:00The FBI's Bank Robbery Task Force is looking for a woman who robbed the East Boston Savings Bank branch at 430 West Broadway on Wednesday, about 11 months after she last robbed...
View ArticleManager at waterfront club loses job after he let guy who'd just sexually...
Sat, 10/13/2018 - 00:20When a server at the Grand on Northern Avenue reported that one of the men at a table she was hosting had grabbed her buttocks and inserted a finger in her, her manager did not...
View ArticleWaterfront club ordered shut for two nights after manager refused to do...
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered the Grand, 25 Northern Ave., to close for two nights because of an incident last fall in which a manager let a table of men finish their drinks even after...
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