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By adamg - 2/29/24 - 9:19 am

The Dorchester Reporter has the details of the plan, which calls for reconstruction to start in 2026.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 1:51 pm
Front and rear renderings of proposed condo building

Front and rear renderings of proposed condos by Tim Johnson Architect.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans to replace a one-family house with a six-unit condo building and to create a rear parking lot for that and an existing three-family home on Dorset Street in Dorchester in large part because the proposed eight-space rear parking lot would completely eliminate the two lots' rear yards. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 2:42 pm
Lori Kauffman seeks inspiration from Hitler

Nazi candidate memes herself.

Updated with statement by the Massachusetts Republican Committee.

Republicans in the First Suffolk district (state Sen. Nick Collins's district) who vote during the March 5 primary will get to decide who represents them on the Republican State Committee - one man and one woman.

On the woman's side, the candidates are Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick and Lori Kauffman, both of Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 12:09 pm

A Mattapan man faces a variety of gun charges for the gun loaded with eight bullets that Boston Police report he had with him when officers pulled over the driver of the car he was in for speeding in Dorchester Wednesday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 11:16 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports teachers at the Neighborhood House Charter School, which has 800 K-12 students, have voted to form a union and to affiliate with the BTU, which represents BPS educators.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 10:35 am
Sign alerting Star Market shoppers to an impending Starbucks

Roving UHub photographer Michael Piccirilli alerts us to the impending Starbucks at the Lower Mills Star Market, 4 River St., on the Mattapan line. Starbucks also recently opened a standalone union-organizing opportunity on the other side of Mattapan, at 850 River Street just over the line in Hyde Park.

If the Star Market Starbucks is like the one at the West Roxbury store, it will be more of a kiosk with a few tables than a full-fledged outlet.

By adamg - 2/20/24 - 12:15 pm

Suffolk County prosecutors who plan to use cell-tower data to place a suspect in a 2015 Dorchester home invasion, murder, shooting and arson at the scene of the crime won't be able to use data from the man's phone that seems to also place him at the location, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today. Read more.

By adamg - 2/17/24 - 1:04 pm

Boston Police report officers who stopped a man for running a red light at Bowdoin Street and Geneva Avenue in Dorchester around 3:35 a.m. arrested him after noticing he was packing what turned out to be a gun loaded with 15 bullets. Read more.

By adamg - 2/16/24 - 1:24 pm

The BPDA today sued the owners of the building that's now home to the Savin Bar + Kitchen and 14 apartments on Savin Hill Avenue in Dorchester, saying that while they agreed in 2018 to rent one of the apartments as "affordable" for at least the next 30 years, they have consistently rented the unit for more than allowed. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 2:50 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the planned opening of Just Bookish in the new Dot Crossing building at 1463 Dorchester Ave.

By adamg - 2/14/24 - 4:01 pm

A pedestrian was taken away in critical condition after being hit by Engine 24 on Bowdoin Street near Geneva Avenue in Dorchester around 12:25 p.m.

Two ambulances were summoned to the scene, one for the victim and one for firefighters on the truck, which is based in Grove Hall.

By adamg - 2/10/24 - 11:54 am

Anthony Mazza, who watched his life pass by from behind prison walls for the 1972 murder of a bank teller in Uphams Corner, yesterday sued Boston, BPD and police officers he says framed him and railroaded him to a bogus murder conviction in part because they hated gay men. Read more.

By adamg - 2/9/24 - 2:45 pm

Rise Together, one of two developers behind a project to bring 120 residential units, office space and a new marina to Dorchester's Port Norfolk today sued the other developer, CPC Ericsson, for what it says is its refusal to pay a consulting firm that helped ensure the new buildings would be energy efficient and resistant to climate change. Read more.

By adamg - 2/8/24 - 2:10 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today called for a second hearing on an Aug. 29 incident at Dublin House, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester, that ended with a patron needing 47 stitches to close up the machete gash in his arm. Read more.

By adamg - 2/6/24 - 5:44 pm

Mayor Wu announced today that the city's dipping some more into its federal Covid relief funds to continue paying to let riders get on the 23, 28 and 29 buses for free for another two years. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:43 pm

After years of Milton residents fretting about evil Bostonians swarming their town, it's time for some turnabout: The executive board of the Cedar Grove Civic Association in Dorchester says its residents should join the fight against a ballot question in Milton that would allow denser development in parts of that town, to keep more commuting Miltonians from swarming their neighborhood. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/24 - 9:26 pm

A 15-year-old was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon yesterday after she allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old at Jeremiah Burke High School on Tuesday, 60 Washington St. in Dorchester, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/24 - 4:54 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury has concluded that two Stoughton real-estate brokers took advantage of an uneducated contractor with mortgage problems to screw him out of his home on Greenbrier Street in Dorchester and turn a tidy profit on the property. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 2:21 pm

A Dorchester driving instructor was formally charged today - and immediately agreed to plead guilty - to bribery to obtain driver's licenses for three of his students even though they hadn't taken the required driving test first. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 10:11 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports an athletic-clothing company based in Dorchester's Southline building - where they Globe used to be - has merged with Tom Brady's nutrition and apparel concerns.

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