Special Southie sunset
See it larger.Eileen Murphy captured the glow over South Boston yesterday evening.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleFighter jet flies low over Boston to honor the fallen
Fighter jet over South Bay. Photo by Danny in Boston.Shortly before 11 a.m., the pilot of a Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15 flew low over Hyde Park and Roslindale on the way to participate in the...
View ArticleCrews on rescue boats search for person in water off Castle Island, but good...
Crews on BFD, BPD, Massport and State Police boats began searching for a person in the water off Castle Island around 9 p.m.. Then State Police found witnesses who reported they saw a distraught man on...
View ArticleDiving into Boston Harbor
See it larger.Brooks Payne took in the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in the Seaport today. He adds that when he got there, the winds were gusting to 28 m.p.h.That's 90 feet up, it's 50 degrees,...
View ArticleLong closed Curley center in South Boston will slowly begin to re-open next week
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Curley Community Center is scheduled to re-open for self-workouts next week, with some classes and other programming to start June 20. A major overhaul of the...
View ArticleEast Broadway resident sues to block new two-family house on lot behind his;...
The owner of a single-family home on East Broadway in South Boston yesterday sued to block construction of a new two-family house and the additions of dormers and an extension to an existing home on an...
View ArticleHow a small Boston publisher came to put out the first bound volumes of the...
Beacon Broadside recounts how Beacon Press came to publish the first bound volume of the Pentagon Papers after Daniel Ellsberg leaked them and Sen. Mike Gravel tried to find a publisher for them, in...
View ArticleReport: Four kids found in squalid South Boston apartment with drugs, sex...
The Herald reports what police found inside an apartment at the Mary Ellen McCormack development.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Giant vermin
A South Boston citizen files a 311 complaint about furry things scurrying about the area of L and East 6th streets that are the size of bunnies but aren't bunnies:They are the size of bunnies but...
View ArticleNo drugs or sex toys strewn around Colony apartment where dead man, live...
Boston Police tonight are painting a different picture of the conditions inside an apartment at 381 Old Colony Ave. in which they found a dead body Saturday morning than the one that had percolated in...
View ArticleCourt tosses man's illegal-gun conviction based on what it determined was an...
A man ordered out of a car that was wanted in connection with a Roxbury shooting in 2019 can't be charged for possession of the loaded gun police found on him because officers didn't have probable...
View ArticleSystem meant to lock doors on moving Red Line trains sealed the fate of a man...
The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that a short circuit on one of the Red Line's older trains led to Robinson Lalin getting stuck in a door as the train pulled out of Broadway...
View ArticleTale of two neighborhoods: Uproar over City Point market's proposal to add...
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant beer-and-wine licenses to two long-time markets - the East Broadway Market at 869 East Broadway at O Street in South Boston and the Beacon...
View ArticleLara to three other councilors on that South Boston apartment: Shame
City Councilor Kendra Lara (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill) says she's fed up with what she considers the "homophobic and transphobic rhetoric" from Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South...
View ArticleCity Point convenience store gets OK to add beer and wine; board concludes...
The Boston Licensing Board today granted the East Broadway Market at 869 East Broadway at O Street in South Boston permission to sell beer and wine.The board also approved a similar license for the new...
View ArticleFuzzies in the mist
Eileen Murphy and friend stopped to take in the hydrangeas on an otherwise gloomy, drizzly kind of day in South Boston.facebooktwitteremailprint
View ArticleApartments could replace tool company on B Street in South Boston
Rendering by Timothy Johnson Architect.A South Boston developer has proposed replacing the Hinds & Coon tool company at 118 B St., off West 3rd Street, with a five-story, 37-unit apartment...
View Article21-gun salute
See it larger.Matt Frank didn't let the gloomy skies keep him from Castle Island, where he watched and listened to the traditional July Fourth salute between the USS Constitution and Fort...
View ArticleTime to spill some Red Line tea; trains delayed due to debris
Update: After increasing the delays to 30 minutes, the T has just called off the trains and is bustituting between Park and JFK/UMass as workers try to clear whatever the debris is.The MBTA reports...
View ArticleBoard puts plans to double size of three-family house on G Street on hold
80 G Street schematic, showing new and old sections, by Gary Hendren.The Zoning Board of Appeal today denied without prejudice plans to add three new units to the three-family home at 80 G St. in South...
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