The Dorchester Reporter talks to John Dunlap, Jr., who has expanded the offerings at his Dorchester Used Bicycle and Thrift Shop to include custom-written poetry for any occasion.
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By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:10 am
The MBTA announced today that the Fairmount Line will be free between Oct. 14 and 29, at least to people with CharlieCards - as a possible replacement for the Mattapan Line and Ashmont service on the Red Line, which will be shut then for track repairs. The T will also be running shuttle buses along the Mattapan and Ashmont lines then.
By adamg - 9/26/23 - 1:56 pm
Two men arrested by Boston Police on child-sex charges in June - and still held in a Suffolk County jail - were arrested again this week on federal charges related to the same incidents involving 14-year-old girls in an apartment in a Dorchester three decker. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/23 - 2:30 pm
Rendering by Icon Architecture.
A developer that helped preserve artist studios in an old industrial building on Humphreys Street in Dorchester filed plans today to build a 21-unit condo building nearby in which all the units would be sold to people making no more than 80% to 100% of the Boston area median income - with 18 of them marketed to artists. Read more.
Police add short Dorchester street to roads blocked off on weekend nights after man is shot to death
By adamg - 9/20/23 - 11:18 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston Police are now shutting Old Road - a shortcut between Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road - on weekend nights following the Sept. 2 murder of Xavier Rivas. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:44 am
New development in the front, UMass and JFK Library in the back. Rendering by Stantec.
By adamg - 9/17/23 - 9:31 pm
Police swarm Ames Street. Photo by Gavin Schoch.
Update: One man arrested, second sought.
Five people were shot - including a 14-year-old shot in the ankle and an 11-year-old - on Ames Street in the Franklin Field development around 8:40 p.m., Boston Area Public Safety Alerts and Stanley Staco report. Read more.
By adamg - 9/15/23 - 1:41 pm
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester, to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/23 - 9:50 pm
King vs. Weber, Pepen vs. Ruiz.
Voters in District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) today solidly rejected one-term incumbent and crash-plagued incumbent Kendra Lara, while voters in neighboring District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) gave the boot to ethics-plagued incumbent Ricardo Arroyo. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/23 - 2:50 pm
Bost in an Ice Cream hoodie, from his girlfriend's phone via the FBI.
The FBI, which teamed up with Boston Police this past spring to investigate a series of armed store robberies across the city, today arrested a man they say held up a convenience store on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester just 35 minutes after he held up a convenience store in Brockton. Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/23 - 1:45 pm
Residents in four City Council districts have preliminary elections tomorrow to narrow the fields in the November elections to two candidates each. There is no preliminary for the four citywide council seats because there are eight candidates, all of whom will battle in November. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:44 pm
Shortly after 4:35 p.m. on Blue Hill Avenue between Ansel Road and Balsam Street.
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:30 pm
Bruce the dog got scared and ran off. Photo via State Police.
Update: Bruce found, reunited with family.
Boston and state first responders responded to the end of Southview Street in Dorchester, where a woman walking her dog suffered critical injuries when she was hit by lightning around 3:20 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 4:00 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man early this morning for shooting Mario Santos to death on Wilrose Street in Dorchester on Feb. 21. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 3:38 pm
Victim identified as Princess Charles, 29, of Quincy.
Boston Police report a woman was shot to death at 12 Greenock St. off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5:25 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 9/7/23 - 9:46 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports that New Balance CEO and 2016 Trump backer Jim Davis, who pumped $1 million into a PAC that failed to keep Michelle Wu from getting elected mayor this week donated $150,000 to a super PAC that is trying to un-elect two of the City Council's progressive members: Kendra Lara in District 6 and Ricardo Arroyo in District 5. The group's ads in the Herald also support John FitzGerald, Frank Baker's choice, in District 3.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 4:01 pm
A former Dorchester resident now living in Quincy expected to trade 60 grams of fentanyl for four handguns from Florida yesterday but instead found himself arrested by ATF agents and Quincy Police because his trading partner had turned informant in the hopes of reducing his own sentence for his role in gun trafficking in another jurisdiction, according to court records unsealed in US District Court in Boston today. Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 10:40 am
The nerve of John Kerry living a couple blocks from this busted gas lamp.
An outraged citizen who lives in Dorchester files a 311 complaint about the 311 complaint somebody else filed about a gas lamp on Revere Street on Beacon Hill that is not working correctly: Read more.
By adamg - 9/5/23 - 5:43 pm
A dispute during a dominoes match over who knows more about the Jamaican capital of Kingston ended with one player going after the other two with a machete in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester on Aug. 25, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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