Board rejects deck for South Boston house after residents object to frequent...
Shot down: Rendeirng of proposed 1778 Columbia Rd. three-family.The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal by the owner of 25 Dorchester St. to add a roof deck after nearby residents and...
View ArticleMissing South Boston chihuahua dead after well meaning bystander tries to...
Boston Animal Control and Care is advising people to not try to chase potentially loose pets because they could bolt and wind up dead, as happened yesterday in South Boston to a chihuahua that had...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: The smoke detector that has been chirping for...
A citizen who has somehow not been driven completely insane file a 311 complaint about a smoke detector on East 2nd Street in South Boston:[The building] which appears vacant, had had a smoke detector...
View ArticleJury convicts Lexington man for repeatedly smashing glass into Seaport...
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Khalid Kalila, 31, for a 2018 attack at a Seaport restaurant that left a bouncer at Empire on Seaport Boulevard blind in one eye for several months and...
View ArticleThree stabbed at South Boston gas station
South Boston Scanner reports three people were stabbed on Old Colony Avenue around 1:30 a.m. Anna Meiler at WBZ reports an argument at the Speedway gas station near D Street ended with the stabbings,...
View ArticleMan shot in Pleasure Bay parking lot along Day Boulevard
State Police report a 19-year-old man was shot around 10:40 p.m. on Friday. Read more.Fri, 05/21/2021 - 22:40Neighborhoods:Â South BostonTopics:Â CrimeFree tagging:Â Day...
View ArticleYes, those were two fighter jets that just zoomed over the Boston area
Kenny Medium looked up at just the right time.The jets were part of the re-dedication of the Massachusetts Fallen Heroes memorial in the Seaport.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleAs we were saying before we were interrupted
Eileen Murphy reported from East Broadway in South Boston early this evening on the First Day of No Masks: "Just another Saturday night at The Broadway."facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticlePerson arrested inside Boston Medical Center with a loaded gun, police say
Boston Police report arresting a Texas resident with a loaded gun inside Boston Medical Center's Shapiro Center early Saturday. Read more.Sat, 05/29/2021 - 03:50Neighborhoods:Â South BostonFree tagging:...
View ArticleChanging of the guard: Seaport building that went up as an insurance-company...
601 Congress St. From the BioMed filing.A Kendall Square concern has filed plans with the BPDA to retrofit the curvy 14-story building at 601 Congress St., originally built as the US headquarters of a...
View ArticleTwo shot on Orton Marotta Way in South Boston
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Orton Marotta Way near Joyce Hayes Way in the West Broadway development. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of at least one of the victim's injuries. Three...
View ArticleImagine driving around in a delivery truck with no AC all day
Eileen Murphy of South Boston reports she had just finished using her hose to clear her car of pollen on Tuesday when Julio, a local FedEx driver, came by. Of course she let him use the hose to cool...
View ArticleCarson Beach bathers beware: State issues water-stinger alert; also warns...
DCR reported today that lion's-mane jellyfish have floated into the waters off Carson Beach in South Boston, Wollaston Beach in Quincy and Nahant Beach in, well, Nahant.The state's posted purple flags...
View ArticleSouth Boston waterfront could get a salt pile - and giant wind-turbine blades
Proposed Eastern facilities.The BPDA board voted today to being negotiations with the operator of the Chelsea salt pile to begin building a similar facility on the South Boston waterfront - as well as...
View ArticleDeveloper will soon file plans for first phase of complete redo of Mary Ellen...
Rendering by CBT.WinnCompanies today told the BPDA it will shortly file plans to begin turning the Mary Ellen McCormack development - the state's first public-housing project, opened some 83 years ago...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: A pizza topping even worse than pineapple
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 report after being dive bombed by a seagull at lunch time on West 3rd and C streets in South Boston this afternoon:Can someone do something about the seagulls? I was...
View ArticleDeveloper sues zoning board over rejection of three-family cube on Columbia...
A developer says the Zoning Board of Appeals illegally rejected a proposed three-family house at 1778 Columbia Rd. that would have looked completely different from its neighbors but which met all of...
View ArticleState Police shut down Columbia Road in South Boston after Fight Night erupts...
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View ArticleGiant cranes delivered to Conley Terminal; will allow larger ships to dock there
How do you unload a crane larger than the cranes you have?A Chinese ship docked at the Conley Terminal in South Boston this morning carrying three big cranes that will let larger cargo ships dock at...
View ArticleIn Charlestown, pizza place to be replaced by apartments, but in South...
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace Kipo's, 106-108 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown, with six apartments, but rejected plans to replace the office space above the Boston Bagel...
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