Man faces his first federal bank-robbery charge in 20 years
A South Boston man arrested on charges he robbed the TD Bank branch across from Faneuil Hall in April now faces a federal bank-robbery charge, which could net him 20 years in prison in exchange for the...
View ArticleSouth Boston restaurant blames lazy handout-taking lardasses for its staffing...
Amrheins on West Broadway is blaming government handouts for how long it's taking its customers to get their food these days.Amrheins is slated to be reborn as a much smaller cafe-style eatery when its...
View ArticleNew York City cab spotted way out of its natural element: South Boston
Eileen Murphy reports she hailed the cab she spotted in South Boston last night because she was curious what it was doing there.Had a quick chat & the guys were talking about sights around Boston...
View ArticleFinally, a barber shop where local anti-vaxxers can feel at home
See it larger.SociallyRemoved spotted this anti-vax front door at LoGrasso's Barber Shop, on West Broadway between D and E streets in South Boston.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleWould-be South Boston cannabis-shop owners sue zoning board for rejecting...
A father/son team that proposed a marijuana shop in a former industrial building in an industrial zone at East 1st and K streets in South Boston has sued the Zoning Board of Appeal, alleging a "vocal...
View ArticleThe case against a marijuana shop at K and East 1st streets in South Boston
Brian Graves of South Boston files a rebuttal to the the lawsuit by the company whose proposed cannabis shop at K and East 1st streets was rejected by the zoning board earlier this year: He explains...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: South Boston street-sweeping tradition needs to go
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on H Street, where people get around the whole ticketing/towing thing on street-sweeping day by double parking on one side of the...
View ArticleJust like in the Before Times: Cruise ship to dock in Boston tomorrow and...
An actual cruise ship will be docking in Boston tomorrow for the first time since 2019, Massport said today.The Crystal Symphony should pull into the Flynn Cruiseport at Black Falcon Pier around 9...
View ArticleBig boat berths
Beth Gavin got a gander today at the Crystal Symphony, the first cruise ship to dock in Boston since 2019.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleTwo-fisted brick smasher sought for attack at Andrew station
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy with a brick in each hand who smashed a man with them at the Andrew Square Red Line station around 1:45 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.Sat, 08/21/2021 -...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Time to fish all those wheelchairs out of Fort...
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about all the wheelchairs, bicycles and shopping carts getting dumped into the Fort Point Channel by the Jimmy Kelly Bridge.What is the department responsible...
View ArticleNavy jets roar over Boston Harbor
See it larger.Jim Gavaghan was able to capture the Navy's Blue Angels flying over the USS Constitution and Boston Harbor this morning from his third-floor porch in South Boston.Matt Conti of the North...
View ArticleDevelopers propose turning old nursing home in City Point into condos
Rendering by Vanko Studio Architects.A pair of developers have filed plans with the BPDA to spend $8 million to convert the former Harborlights Nursing Home at 804 East 7th St. in South Boston into 31...
View ArticleZoning board draws line in sand: No life-sciences labs right in residential...
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously rejected a proposal to convert an unoccupied office building at 69-71 A St. into a "boutique" life-sciences building, because it sits in an area now zoned...
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Rain overwhelms sewer system; raw sewage released into Charles, Mystic,...
Brown indicates raw sewage, blue means treated sewage, green means no sewage released.The MWRA and the Boston Water and Sewer Commission are reporting that "combined sewer outfalls" dumped raw and...
View ArticleArea professors get $3-million grant to study the health of Mary Ellen...
A team of researchers at Boston College, Boston University and Harvard have won the federal grant to study "how the massive makeover will affect the health and well-being of more than 1,000 children...
View ArticleConvicted rapist charged with woman's 1988 murder in a factory basement on...
A man already locked up because of a 1987 rape in Revere now faces charges he raped and murdered a woman 11 months later in a building in what was then the desolate South Boston waterfront, the Suffolk...
View ArticleDevelopers propose expanding former South Boston church into 35 residential...
Developers who bought the former St. Vincent de Paul Church at E and West 3rd streets in South Boston say they will soon file plans to add a couple floors to the building to create a 35-unit...
View ArticleNew modular home in South Boston has plenty of parking, water views
Michael Spicher spotted this small house on the Harborwalk along Fort Point Channel, near the Gillette plant - not all that far from the spot on Congress Street where Nate Swain once "patched" a wall...
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