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By adamg - 1/5/23 - 11:52 am

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Mei Mei to open a cafe - and a new dumpling factory - at 58 Old Colony Ave. in South Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/23 - 11:39 am
John Tunney

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let South Boston Candlepins, 543 East Broadway, extend its closing time for both bowling and drinking from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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By adamg - 1/2/23 - 11:35 pm

At 10:37 p.m., Archivehive reported:

Did anyone hear two loud bangs? Cambridge Street West End Boston area.

It sounded like something falling out of the sky and then bang. Then it happened again

Sure enough, others heard them, too: Read more.

By adamg - 12/30/22 - 10:25 pm
Shooting suspect

Surveillance photo via TPD.

Update: Police say they found the guy, have talked to him and that their investigation continues.

Transit Police have released a photo of the man they say may have shot a woman in the stomach on a bus outside Andrew station around 5:25 p.m.

By adamg - 12/30/22 - 2:52 pm

Cohasset Police announced today they will charge a 16-year-old basketball play at Excel High School in South Boston with misdemeanor assault and battery for an incident during a game in Cohasset on Wednesday.

By adamg - 12/28/22 - 10:38 pm

Cohasset Police say they are investigating an incident this evening in which a 17-year-old player from Excel High in South Boston attacked a referee. Read more.

By adamg - 12/26/22 - 9:51 am
Tree out for disposal this morning

A concerned citizen or, perhaps, a Public Works employee out and about, based on the way the 311 report is written, noted at 6:28 this morning that somebody has already de-trimmed their Christmas tree and put it out for disposal at Beckler Avenue and K Street in South Boston.

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 11:57 am
Wave hitting Winthrop Parkway in Revere

Wave hitting Winthrop Parkway in Revere. Photo by Brian Riccio.

Morrissey Boulevard? Long Wharf? Winthrop Drive? All shut at the morning high tide as wind-whipped waves came ashore. But also Day Boulevard in South Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 12/21/22 - 10:47 am
Sunrise over South Boston and the Amtrak tracks

Johnmcboston captured the sunrise over South Boston and the Northeast Corridor tracks this morning.

By adamg - 12/15/22 - 2:55 pm

The MBTA said today it's going to try to buy the 24-acre Widett Circle, which our brief Olympics bid lifted out of obscurity only to return to being the home of low-profile food-processing concerns, to use as a place to store commuter-rail trains between the morning and afternoon rush hours. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/22 - 9:39 am

WCVB reports on the woman who owns the condo with the frozen little bodies. The causes of their deaths remain under investigation.

By adamg - 12/6/22 - 3:32 pm
Rendering of proposed new building at 748-750 East Broadway

Rendering by Sousa Design.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by Joey Arcari to replace what is now a vacant lot at 748-750 East Boradway at L Street with a four-story building: Ground-floor retail space topped by three residential floors with a total of nine apartments. Read more.

By adamg - 12/6/22 - 10:01 am
The line for the 7 bus in South Boston this morning

Andrew McCourt shows us the line for a 7 bus in South Boston around 8:30 a.m. He had some time to ponder the situation: Read more.

By adamg - 11/29/22 - 12:38 pm

Aline Kaplan takes us on a tour of the best photo opportunities in the part of the Seaport near the Reserved Channel - along with places to grab a bite after all that photographing.

By adamg - 11/28/22 - 8:10 pm

The Boston Police Department reports that after officers recovered the remains of one infant in a freezer in a condo at 838 East Broadway on Nov. 17, they returned and found the remains of three other infants. Read more.

By adamg - 11/19/22 - 3:40 pm

Stop the nonsense at once, Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty demand in a letter to the manager of the local Stop & Shop.

By adamg - 11/18/22 - 3:36 pm

Boston Police report homicide detectives "located what appears to be additional human remains" at 838 East Broadway in South Boston, where the body of a fetus or young infant was found in a freezer yesterday. WCVB reports it might be another fetus or infant.

By adamg - 11/17/22 - 9:47 pm
Where the body was found

Where the body was found. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports on the discovery around 2 p.m. in the freezer of an apartment at 838 East Broadway in South Boston. The remains were taken to the medical examiner to determine the cause of death and age.

By adamg - 11/17/22 - 10:05 am

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day suspension for Red Line Pizza, 582 Dorchester Ave. in South Boston, after licensing cops found it open past its closing time on Sept. 3, the third such violation to come before the board over a three-month period. Read more.

By adamg - 11/15/22 - 12:15 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a request by the owner of a third-floor condo at 8 Peters St. in South Boston to expand the size of the deck atop his triple decker from 85 to roughly 150 square feet after the two city councilors who live in South Boston said they are unalterably opposed to new or expanded roof decks as menaces to the neighborhood. Read more.

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