Grove Hall
Boston Police report arresting two men and seizing two loaded guns early this morning following traffic stops in Dorchester. Read more.
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corp. says it will soon file plans for 59 apartments aimed at senior citizens and 9 condos - all to be rented or sold as affordable - to replace the long abandoned Grove Hall Motor Mart property on Cheney Street. Read more.
In three separate incidents after 9:15 p.m., one at Blue Hill Avenue and Dewey Street, one a couple blocks away at Blue Hill Avenue and Maywood Street and the third a couple blocks away from that on Quincy Street, about a block off Blue Hill Avenue. All three victims were taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
WBZ reports on a vigil yesterday in Grove Hall that included nine minutes of silence for the nine last minutes of George Floyd's life with a policeman's knee on his neck.
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man on gun charges Thursday night - after they say officers watched him and a 15-year-old pal from Mattapan walking for several blocks away from Blue Hill Avenue with "their hands tucked into their front waistbands with their heads darting back and forth scanning the area." Read more.
Around 4:30 p.m. in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and Schuyler Street, possibly as many as eight rounds. Spent shells were found at that intersection.
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that Pure Oasis at 430 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall got the last state OK it needed today and will open Monday.
The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission today signed off on a proposal for a company called Pure Oasis to open Boston's first recreational pot shop, at 430 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall. Read more.
A Mattapan teen was ordered held without bail today at his arraignment on charges he murdered Treshawn Boyd at Washington and Normandy streets in Grove Hall Saturday night. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Daventy Walker, 18, of Mattapan, for a double shooting on Washington Street on Saturday that left Treshawn Boyd dead. Read more.
Boston Police report the man who died in a double shooting at Washington and Normandy streets was Treshawn Boyd, 19. Read more.
At 34 Creston St., near Normandy Street, around 10:30 p.m., Live Boston reports.
Atlas Obscura follows Dave Hebb, a "commercial archaeologist," on a quest to find local small-business signs made by a single manufacturer, signs you've probably never paid any attention to but the style of which you'll instantly recognize.
Two men, one from Dorchester, one from Randolph, were indicted yesterday on a federal charge of conspiracy to deal in firearms without a license for the eight guns they allegedly bought from a Woburn gun dealer for re-sale, possibly to Boston gang members. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved marijuana shops at 430-454 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall and 591 Albany St. in the South End.
In both cases, the approval does not mean the shops can actually open, only that they can now apply to the state Cannabis Control Commission, which would have to decide whether to grant licenses. Read more.