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By adamg - 1/24/24 - 10:06 am

David Rosenberg, who once owned 30 car dealerships in New England and the Mid Atlantic, including Prime Toyota and Prime Honda in West Roxbury, this week sued over the way the company was sold. Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 11:03 am

All Tom Baker Doctor Who Prime Computer Ads

Artair Geal discovered these 1980s ads for Prime Computer, which turned the old Carling Brewery on the shores of Lake Cochituate into a minicomputer powerhouse, and which apparently dabbled in romance advice on the side: Read more.

By adamg - 1/15/24 - 10:13 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the Courthouse Fish Market in East Cambridge has closed for good after more than 111 years in business. Its sister restaurant, Courthouse Seafood, however, remains open.

By adamg - 1/11/24 - 1:42 pm
Pig mask and book on grief

Among the items company goons sent couple: Bloody-pig mask and grief book.

California-based online swapping-post concern eBay has agreed to a $3 million fine for the terror campaign its executives and employees waged against a Natick couple who ran an online news site that published items the company didn't like, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/9/24 - 1:38 pm
Rendering of proposed Greenhills Bakery and condos

Rendering by Choo & Company.

The owners of the Greenhills Bakery, 780 Adams St. in Dorchester, today won approval to raze their current store to replace it with a larger bakery topped with three additional floors with nine condos. Read more.

By adamg - 1/5/24 - 12:33 pm

The owners of 21 North End restaurants and the North End Chamber of Commerce yesterday sued the city over its 2022 fees for restaurants in the neighborhood that wanted to use public sidewalks and streets for patio seating - and its ban on such patios last year - alleging the Wu administration and a local residents' groups hate Italians for some reason. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/24 - 12:27 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today rejected a request from Cristian Market, 411 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall, to add beer to its inventory, because of overwhelming opposition from nearby residents about the already easy access to beer at six other stores within a half mile. Read more.

By adamg - 1/3/24 - 4:33 pm

NorthEnd.page reports that the Connah Store, which never failed to give tourists something to chuckle about as they sauntered up and down Hanover Street, but which also provided a late-night spot for both locals and restaurant workers to stock up on some essentials, has closed for the last time, victim of a huge rent increase. Venerable North End restaurant owner Frank DePasquale will be expanding his neighboring Dolce ice-cream and coffee place into the space.

By adamg - 1/2/24 - 12:26 pm

A Hingham company that says it did some work for the city of Boston back in the last millennium, then somehow forgot to deposit its payment until a few months ago, is suing the city to demand it re-issue a check that a bank will find acceptable. Read more.

By adamg - 12/30/23 - 1:43 pm
The tanker Nor'easter

Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.

By adamg - 12/29/23 - 9:31 am

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the Jan. 14 closing of the Walgreens at 416 Warren St. in Roxbury: Read more.

By adamg - 12/27/23 - 9:11 pm

The Swellesley Report reports the chain found the devices, which can read credit-card information, at five of its suburban locations.

By adamg - 12/24/23 - 11:19 am
Line from Bertucci's to Gary's in West Roxbury

The line stretched back to Bertucci's.

Gary's Liquors on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury opened at 10 this morning, but by 8 there was already a line outside, people in folding chairs and sipping their Dunk's as they waited for employees to unlock the doors so they could snap up a bottle or two, or three, of the "special reserve" bourbon for sale today only. Read more

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:38 am

Update, 12:45 p.m.: Outage numbers now around 6,112 in Boston, with numerous outages in Hyde Park and Mattapan.

As of 9:30 a.m., Eversource reported more than 3,400 businesses and homes in Boston have lost power - including 1,600 or so in Roxbury, where falling tree limbs knocked out power at 6:32 a.m. and 1,400 in Jamaica Plain, where the power went off at 8:09 a.m.

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 - 12/13/23 - 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 - 12/12/23 - 9:51 pm

Cambridge Day reports the Cambridge-based improv-comedy theater and school will wind down its operations through the end of the month, then just disappear. The non-profit says it was particularly hard hit by the pandemic, then was unable to ever fully recover.

By adamg - 12/12/23 - 2:48 pm

The owner of the closed Garage club on Linden Street - shut since 2022 because of yet more gunfire out front - wants the Boston Licensing Board to revoke its "indefinite suspension" of his liquor license so he can explore leasing the space to new operators who would, one of his lawyers says, convert it into a music-focused "LGBTQ+ safe space in the community." Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 10:03 pm

Boston Real Estate Times reports the Boston Pickle Club has leased 20,000 square feet of space at 91 Sprague St. in Hyde Park for an indoor pickleball facility - which could open by Feb. 1. Read more.

By adamg - 12/6/23 - 2:33 pm

In a region now overflowing with guinea pigs, the Boston City Council voted today added the fuzzy animated potatoes to the list of animals that can't be sold in city pet shops. Read more.

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