A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint on March 17 about a wreath still hanging at Dorchester Avenue and West Broadway in South Boston that included this explanation: Read more.
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By adamg - 3/2/22 - 10:09 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the annual moving celebration up Dorchester Avenue, which dates to 1904, is scheduled to return on June 5, after a two-year Covid-19 interregnum.
By adamg - 1/26/22 - 9:18 am
Live Boston reports gunfire - but no victims: Shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday on Dorchester Avenue right outside the Ashmont T stop, 10:30 p.m. at Courtland and Greendale roads and 2 a.m. today on Lithgow Street, near Washington Street and Talbot Avenue.
By adamg - 10/29/21 - 8:17 am
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 1631 Dorchester Ave. for what turned into a two-alarm fire around 12:30 a.m.
The department reports no injuries; says 14 people were displaced.
By adamg - 10/27/21 - 9:40 am
The Dorchester Reporter talks to two brothers, who, along with a third man, managed to get an unconscious man out of his car just before the whole thing went up in flames this past Friday.
I saw the whole engine block engulfed in flames. I ran across the street and Mike was right behind me. I told him to be careful because I thought the car might explode.
By adamg - 10/22/21 - 4:57 pm
Boston firefighters responded around 4:40 p.m. to the BHA's six-story Peabody/Englewood building, 1875 Dorchester Ave., for a two-alarm fire that started when a car in the residential building's garage burst into flames. One resident was injured. Read more.
By adamg - 10/6/21 - 10:17 am
Rachel Lazar went before the Boston Licensing Board today asking permission to open an 18-seat daytime restaurant at 383 Dorchester Ave. that will be available as a meeting space in the evening. Read more.
By adamg - 9/27/21 - 11:40 am
Live Boston reports a man was stabbed at Dorchester Avenue and Linden Street around 2:40 a.m. on Saturday.
By adamg - 7/13/21 - 11:06 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today granted a one-year extension to the developer of a proposed eight-story, 150-unit condo building at Dorchester Avenue and B Street to start construction - but the developer's attorney said he's hoping construction can begin even sooner. Read more.
By adamg - 7/7/21 - 3:30 pm
Bird-enriched rendering by Stantec.
Core Investments today filed plans for a four-building complex along Dorchester Avenue at Alger Street that will include life-sciences labs, offices, retail space and 196 residential units - on a nine-acre site where the company originally planned to put a large Amazon warehouse that the BPDA rejected as not in keeping with the residential/office future it has planned for that stretch. Read more.
By adamg - 7/7/21 - 9:14 am
Suspect being arrested. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a woman was stabbed outside 1261 Dorchester Ave. around 9:30 p.m. on Monday. The woman was taken to a local hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries. The child was uninjured.
Princewill Daniels, 39, of Framingham, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 6/3/21 - 11:26 am
The Dorchester Reporter surveys the making of Little Saigon, the stretch of Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner that is now on its third generation of Vietnamese-American residents.
By adamg - 6/2/21 - 2:54 pm
Baker testifies via Zoom from the Sugar Bowl.
The Boston Licensing Department rummages around tomorrow to see if it has any liquor licenses it can grant to Sugar Bowl Cafe, 857 Dorchester Ave., which says that if it gets one, it will re-open at night and give locals a place to go to relax rather than having to jump in a cab to get to South Boston or Lower Mills. Read more.
By adamg - 5/3/21 - 10:01 pm
Rendering by Choo & Co.
Developer Robert Raimondi today filed plans with the BPDA to replace a small commercial building and a parking lot at 1320 Dorchester Ave., at Ellsworth Street, with a six-story building with 80 studio apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 4/27/21 - 1:49 pm
1121 Dorchester Ave. rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved two new housing developments - one with room for restaurant - a couple blocks apart along Dorchester Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/21 - 4:43 pm
Rendeirng with work by Elkus Manfredi, ZGF and Cookfox.
National Development of Newton has filed plans to replace a Gold's Gym and a series of Marr Rigging warehouses at 323-365 Dorchester Ave. with four buildings - two with residential units and two outfitted to support the life-sciences labs and offices that are the current hotness in Boston development. Read more.
By adamg - 3/24/21 - 4:40 pm
Boston Police report the arrest of Shawn Murphy, 49, of Brockton, for a shooting on Dorchester Avenue, across from the Ashmont T station, that sent another man to the hospital around 9:30 p.m. on March 4.
Police say the BPD fugitive unit, US marshals and Brockton Police arrested Murphy in Brockton around 5:45 a.m. today.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 3/10/21 - 1:20 pm
The Dorchester Day Parade Committee announced today that, for the second year in a row, it's canceled the June parade down Dot Ave. due to Covid-19.
By adamg - 3/5/21 - 9:26 am
National Development of Newton yesterday told the BPDA it plans to file plans soon to replace a series of warehouses between F.W. Webb and Benjamin Moore on Dorchester Avenue, near Old Colony Avenue, with a four-building development - two buildings with 345 residential units and two buildings with 674,500 square feet of commercial space. Read more.
By adamg - 3/4/21 - 9:37 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Around 9:30 p.m. on Dorchester Avenue near Ashmont Street. The homicide unit was called in just in case, due to the severity of the victim's injuries. Read more.
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