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By adamg - 4/26/23 - 11:00 am
Omar and Brandon Melendez

Omar and Brandon Melendez.

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let an East Boston father and son buy the liquor license of the closed Jeveli's, 387 Chelsea St. in East Boston, to open a 218-seat restaurant dedicated to tapas based on cuisines from around the world. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/23 - 9:10 pm
Sharp-ended metal straw

Weaponized straw seized at Logan. Photo by TSA.

TSA reports a man was arrested at Logan Airport yesterday after he tried to bring a metal "vampire straw" onboard a plane. Read more.

By adamg - 4/20/23 - 11:21 pm

Boston Police report arresting two 14-year-olds they say stole 23 phones and 3 digital watches in two trips into a phone-repair shop at 201 Sumner St., across from the Maverick Square T stop in East Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 4/20/23 - 3:00 pm
Rendering of proposed residential building at 1188 Bennington St.

Rendering by Design Resource Team.

GVW Construction has filed plans with the BPDA to replace its current building at 1188 Bennington St. in East Boston with two buildings with 40 apartments - across Bennington from where another developer wants to replace what's left of a former casket factory with 220 apartments. Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 2:41 pm

The T managed to fix this morning's issues on the Blue Line just in time to announce new delays due to switch problems at Wonderland.

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 9:29 am

The Blue Line is even more of a mess than usual today, as in, the T is running shuttle buses between Orient Heights and Wonderland and telling people who can to take the ferry, because of some sort of wire ish at Revere Beach.

By adamg - 4/11/23 - 4:10 pm
Rendering of proposed billboard

Board says nope to glaring board, even with gussied up landscaping.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal to replace two old-school billboards that advertise the Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine on McClellan Highway in East Boston with a state-of-the-art electronic billboard that would beam electronic ads at passing motorists. Read more.

By adamg - 4/11/23 - 11:09 am
John Maconga of Boston Scores, in front of rendering of new fields

John Maconga of Boston Scores, in front of rendering of new fields.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Boston Scores to build a field house at its existing fields off Westbrook Street in Orient Heights, which will be rebuilt as three soccer fields with artificial turf, two smaller fields, a playground and a community garden. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 11:44 am

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old from Dorchester in East Boston yesterday on charges he used a gun to murder Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26, on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury on Sept. 29. Read more.

By adamg - 3/29/23 - 11:01 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the Dunkin' at 951 Bennington St. re-open its outdoor patio. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/23 - 1:11 pm
20 Waldemar Ave. rendering

Rendering of building rejected by board by Balance Architects.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today told a developer that if he wants to tear down the single-family home at 20 Waldemar Ave. in East Boston, its replacement has to be something with fewer than the six units for which he had sought approval. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 3:44 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a proposed plea to the state legislature to grant Boston 250 new liquor licenses - but only for certain neighborhoods. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 9:41 am

Boston Police report officers with a search warrant raided a home on Faywood Avenue, between Crestwood and Vallar roads in East Boston, around noon yesterday and recovered "21 grams of fentanyl, 20 grams of cocaine, 12 plastic bags of crack cocaine, 15 pills of gabapentin and numerous rounds of ammunition." Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/23 - 7:36 pm
Amis Treasure in Chelsesa Creek

This afternoon, Michael Campbell was in East Boston, watching the Amis Treasure come through Boston Harbor on its way to the Chelsea salt pile on Chelsea Creek with a fresh load of Chilean salt, picked up from the Punta Patache Terminal in Chile.

By adamg - 3/10/23 - 10:01 am

The T is currently running buses instead of trains between Maverick and Airport because of a downed wire.

By adamg - 3/9/23 - 2:11 pm
Stupid Nissan parked in space reserved for an EV

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about a gas hog from Connecticut whose owner has managed to defeat the reason Boston's been busy installing EV-charging stations in municipal parking lots, like the one on London Street in East Boston: Read more.

By adamg - 3/3/23 - 10:43 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Pomona Cafe and Wine Bar is looking to open its third Massachusetts outlet at 18 Meridian St. in Maverick Square. They'll start out with coffee, smoothies, salads, sandwiches and grain bowls, then add alcohol if they can get a liquor license.

By adamg - 2/28/23 - 4:29 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Dylan Etheridge, 26, to 6 to 10 years in state prison for OUI manslaughter for a high-speed crash on Bennington Street in 2019 in which he flipped his car, then ran away as his two passengers lay trapped inside - one of whom died - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/23 - 11:00 pm

WCVB reports on the disappearance of Reina Carolina Morales Rojas, a mother of two. A vigil was held in front of the District A-7 police station in East Boston today.

By adamg - 2/23/23 - 9:55 pm

MassDOT announced today that it's replacing its plans to shut the Sumner Tunnel between May and September this year with plans to shut it between July 5 and Aug. 31, as it works to renovate the 88-year-old tunnel. Read more.

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