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By adamg - 12/15/23 - 3:25 pm

The city has organized a parade for the Dorchester Elite Eagles 14U football team and the Boston Lady Raiders that starts at 2 p.m. tomorrow at TechBoston Academy. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 10:30 am
Photos of suspect

Photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say was part of a duo on scooters who held up a 14-year-old at gunpoint outside Robin Hood Street in Dorchester, around 5 p.m. on Oct. 25. Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 9:55 am

A Cincinnati staffing agency that provides temp nurses to hospitals has sued Steward Health Care Systems, which operates St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester, for the money it says the hospital system stopped paying for all of the health-care professionals funneled to Steward hospitals following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 6:03 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports on the foamy marriage of Dorchester Brewing Co. and Aeronaut Brewing.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 2:12 pm
De Barros

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow on whether to let Jean-Luc De Barros convert his Plateau Communications shop at 251 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester into Boston Plateau Shawarma, where he promised to serve the Middle Eastern thin-sliced meat and chicken "slow cooked to perfection." Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 1:44 pm
Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road in 1949

On April 24, 1949, an employee of the Boston Transportation Department took this shot of Blue Hill Avenue outbound at Columbia Road.

Note the trolleys on both roads (the reason both have paved medians -that's where the trolleys used to go) and compare to today's view: Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/23 - 5:27 pm
Rendering of 22 Freeman St.

Rendering of project on lot that touches Fields Corner Red Line stop by Hue Architecture.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a five-story building with 14 studio apartments on a lot that ends at a wall for the Fields Corner Red Line stop in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/23 - 4:16 pm
Rendering of proposed Milton Avenue parking lot

Rendering of proposed Milton Avenue condos showing the parking by Anthony Pisani.

When residents said Onyx Management and Development's plans for six condos in three attached buildings at 45 Milton Ave. in Dorchester would lead to parking woes on the street, the company responded with a proposal for nine parking spaces in a backyard that would be taken up almost entirely by a driveway and the spaces, with room for just three or four potted shrubs. Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/23 - 1:30 pm
Rendering of proposed Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center

Rendering by Isgenuity.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a new three-story home for the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Old Road between Ellington Street and Michigan Avenue in Dorchester, basically to the rear of its existing facilities on Blue Hill Avenue. Read more.

By adamg - 12/4/23 - 2:00 pm
Goat on a city street, just not a Boston street

Somebody with access to both graphics and AI apps has now filed three alleged 311 complaints about loose goats on the streets of Boston, except, as 311 noted in closing a complaint with the above photo of a "wet and smelly" goat allegedly at Chestnut and Brimmer streets on Beacon Hill, that's not Chestnut and Brimmer streets on Beacon Hill. Read more.

By adamg - 12/4/23 - 9:07 am

MassDOT reports that the drawbridge, which connects both sides of Morrissey Boulevard, was reopened to traffic at 5:45 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/3/23 - 9:02 pm
Morrisey Boulevard Bridge got stuck in the upright position

Looks like upbridge, Will McArthur reported around 5:20 p.m., after the bridge went up for somebody heading to or from the yacht club and then just didn't come down. Read more.

By adamg - 12/3/23 - 3:31 pm

The FCC last week warned the owners of eight properties - including a church on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester - that they have two weeks to shut down the unlicensed radio stations emanating from their buildings or face fines of more than $2.3 million per station. Read more.

By adamg - 12/2/23 - 11:07 am

Boston Police report an officer working a detail who was trying to get two women to stop whaling on other in the middle of the intersection of Washington Street and Talbot Avenue was pepper sprayed by somebody engaged in a second street brawl nearby. Read more.

By adamg - 12/1/23 - 2:07 pm

A federal judge this week agreed with prosecutors and sentenced Fermin Castillo, 43, to 25 years in federal prison following his conviction on charges of conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Read more.

By adamg - 11/27/23 - 9:13 pm

City Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester) reports his office and a local real-estate office are now collecting clothing, diapers, strollers, formula, shoes and other essentials for the 29 people who lost their homes in a six-alarm fire on Ellington Street in Dorchester on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 11/26/23 - 4:58 pm

WCVB reports one person was pronounced dead at the scene after a crash at Blue Hill Avenue and American Legion Highway around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday. A second person was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

By adamg - 11/25/23 - 4:26 pm
Two views of the fire

Two views of the fire. Photos by BFD.

Update: How to donate to help the families.

Boston firefighters responded to Ellington Street in Dorchester for what turned into a six-alarm fire in two three deckers around 3:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/22/23 - 3:14 pm
Beau Benson

A Dorchester man who worked at Northeastern advising prospective students at prep schools in the Back Bay and Dedham was arrested today on charges he saved explicit videos of men raping toddlers and other young children from Zoom sessions with other child-porn watchers, according to documents unsealed in federal court in Boston today. Read more.

By adamg - 11/21/23 - 9:14 am

The MBTA announced this morning it's eliminated nine speed restrictions between JFK/UMass and Downtown Crossing that had limited trains to as slow as 10 m.p.h. at some points, after replacing 2,000 feet of rail and 115 ties in overnight and weekend repair work. Read more.

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