The Dorchester Reporter compiles answers to a questionnaire it send to the candidates seeking to replace Frank Baker as District 3 city councilor in the September preliminary.
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By adamg - 8/29/23 - 11:23 am
Rendering by Derek Rubinoff.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owner of the shuttered US Petroleum station at Dorchester Avenue and Semont Road in Dorchester to replace it with a four-story, 14-unit residential building with six parking spaces and ground-floor space for a restaurant. Read more.
By adamg - 8/28/23 - 8:58 am
Also see: Brawl outside Tremont Street movie theater.
Boston Police report arresting eight people, between 12 and 17, after a large fight in which some of the combatants allegedly directed their small fists of fury at officers as well, outside the movie theater Sunday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/23 - 3:01 pm
Boston Police report arresting three men and a teenager for the eight-victim gun battle just feet from the Jouvert parade up Blue Hill Avenue Saturday morning - although only two of them may have done the shooting. Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/23 - 11:27 am
Five recovered guns and ammo, photo by BPD.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say stabbed somebody with a screwdriver at 493 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/23 - 8:58 am
Greg Cook got up early to take in the Jouvert parade up Blue Hill Avenue yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/26/23 - 9:01 pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report about mystery bubbling in the water just off the rocks along the UMass Boston campus. Read more.
By adamg - 8/26/23 - 8:29 am
Update: One of the victims was also one of the shooters police say.
Eight people were shot on Talbot Avenue near Blue Hill Avenue around 7:45 a.m. as the Jouvert parade, part of the day's Carnival celebration, was passing by. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/23 - 2:52 pm
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office yesterday moved to seize the 2017 BMW 750I it alleges a man sold crack out of at Mass and Cass and at the South Bay mall. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 10:57 am
The MBTA announced today it's shutting the Ashmont branch of the Red Line and the Mattapan Line between Oct. 14 and 29 for "critical track work." Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/23 - 11:47 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports on one of the potential effects of the proposal to add bus and bike lanes in the center of the road, says a September meeting has been scheduled to try to figure out a solution.
By adamg - 8/22/23 - 10:37 am
A Macy's with no escalators.
Macy's says it will be opening a micro-Macy's at the South Bay mall next month. Read more.
By adamg - 8/21/23 - 8:53 pm
Rendering with lens flare by Vanko Studio.
Ed. note: Story updated to note the current building will not be torn down.
The owner of the building that now houses the Fernandez IV Liquors, a pizza place and a laundromat on Hancock Street at Trull Street in Dorchester has proposed adding three floors of apartments, with the liquor store and the laundromat remaining during construction. Read more.
By adamg - 8/20/23 - 2:07 pm
BFD photo of collapsed hollow sidewalk.
The Boston Fire Department reports a person fell through a hollow sidewalk outside the Bethlehem Healing Temple Church at 428 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall around 11 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/23 - 9:26 am
Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he murdered Moises Ortiz-Santiago, 27, of Dorchester, at Weldon and Quincy streets in Roxbury on July 30. Read more.
By adamg - 8/16/23 - 12:50 pm
Boston Police report eight arrests, dozens of tickets and 19 vehicle seizures and one gun seizure during a weekend series of raids at several locations from Roslindale to Dorchester on Saturday aimed at busting up the large rolling parties of scooters, ATVs and speaker-equipped and booze-filled cars that have become a regular event across the city. Read more.
By adamg - 8/14/23 - 9:08 pm
A federal judge today sentenced Kenji Ingram, 45, of Dorchester, to 27 months in federal prison after he admitted to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Read more.
By adamg - 8/13/23 - 10:37 pm
A roving UHub correspondent reports spotting a man stripped down to his birthday suit at Malibu Beach, the better to soak in all the sun's rays as he lay on the sand completely dishabille and sunny side, um, front side, up.
By adamg - 8/12/23 - 9:21 pm
A possible road-rage gun battle on Talbot Avenue sent people at a basketball game at the courts near the Lee School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester fleeing in panic around 8:45 p.m. Nobody seemed to get hit, at least. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/23 - 6:11 pm
Boston Police report a man was stabbed on Bloomfield Street, just off Greenbrier Street in Dorchester, shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
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