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By adamg - 4/13/23 - 1:24 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved builder Neil Guilden's plans to construct a three-decker with three parking spots on what has long been a vacant lot at 17 Longfellow St. in Dorchester - in part because the city sold the lot 23 years ago with a condition it not be built on. Read more.

By adamg - 4/12/23 - 1:17 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the third 7-Eleven to be shuttered on Dorchester Avenue - although this one will be replaced by another convenience store.

By adamg - 4/11/23 - 2:14 pm
Bayside Expo Center sign removed

"What a day," Joe Blankenship exclaimed as he watched a crew take down the old Bayside Expo Center in Dorchester. The sign advertised the exposition center that UMass Boston long ago tore down after it bought and shuttered the place in 2010. Last month, part of the sign plunged to the ground.
More photos.

By adamg - 4/11/23 - 1:20 pm
Rendering of proposed new complex

Rendering by EMA.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved Boston College High School's plans to build a $49-million "wellness complex" on its Morrissey Boulevard campus. Read more.

By adamg - 4/7/23 - 10:09 am

The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the status of work at Harambee Park, where people have been playing cricket for 100 years.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 1:34 pm
Cushing Avenue fire

Boston firefighters are at 105 Cushing Ave., which has multiple apartments and a day care, where what is now a four-alarm fire was reported shortly before 12:50 p.m. Firefighters were ordered out of the building. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 11:44 am

Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old from Dorchester in East Boston yesterday on charges he used a gun to murder Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26, on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury on Sept. 29. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 11:30 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the proposal for what is now a vacant former bank branch.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 10:19 am
OFD map of Dorchester

Saleeba's training route through Dorchester.

Steve Saleeba will be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge to honor both Gavin, an 8-year-old with leukemia and Dennis Doherty, a longtime nurse at Children's Hospital, who died in February - and who let everyone know that while he lived in Norwood, he was OFD. To get in shape, Saleeba plotted out a Dot training route.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:56 am

Ed. note: Google Maps says it would take 99 minutes to walk from Ashmont to the Pru.

That girl that likes planez chronicled her commute this morning, starting at 7:51 a.m., when, she reported, she was sitting on a Red Line train at Ashmont six minutes after she boarded it: Read more.

By adamg - 4/2/23 - 12:15 pm

WFXT reports two men got into a fight shortly after 6 a.m. at the Ashmont T station, which one man ended by plunging a knife into the other man's shoulder. He was then arrested.

By adamg - 4/1/23 - 3:40 pm

Boston Police report officers responding to a report of gunfire at Harvard Street and Gleason streets in Dorchester around 3 a.m. spotted a car with a broken taillight and pulled it over when they ran the plates and discovered they weren't assigned to that car. Read more.

By adamg - 3/29/23 - 2:27 pm

The owner of Stash's Pizza in Dorchester and Roslindale, who had been arrested on a single count of "forced labor," which carries a maximum possible sentence of 20 years, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of forced labor and attempted forced labor, each of which carries a possible separate sentence of 20 years, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 3/29/23 - 9:59 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the T has added a couple million dollars to its 2024-2028 capital plan to hire a consultant to look at redesigning JFK/UMass, where one entrance had to be shut for four months and where a man fell to his death on a stairway missing stairs that had never been removed despite being marked as unsafe.

By adamg - 3/28/23 - 5:18 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a police officer who stopped David Privette not long after the robbery of a gas station one night in 2018 had enough probable cause to conclude he was a suspect even before he found him packing a gun and several hundred dollars in cash, and so prosecutors can bring him to trial. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/23 - 2:30 pm

A man is being held pending a dangerousness hearing on Thursday after he and two of his four daughters punched a security guard during a fight at the AMC Movie Theater at South Bay Friday night that started in front of Boston Police offices and after security guards asked him and his kids to leave because he was sexually harassing female workers, including asking them out on dates, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/23 - 11:21 pm
Rendering of proposed new building at old Globe site

Rendering by Elkus Manfredi of what somebody standing no the Expresseway north would see.

The owners of Southline, the former Globe plant on Morrissey Boulevard turned lab and office space, have filed plans with the BPDA to use part of a former Globe parking lot between the building and the Expressway for a six-story building focused on, naturally, life sciences space, but also with the ability to use space for offices, should the market change. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/23 - 10:33 pm

AAA Grocery, 181 Washington St. at Erie Street in Dorchester, was held up around 9:50 p.m. by a man in a black mask who showed a gun, got some cash, then ran down Erie Street.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 11:44 pm

A Dorchester man who says the Dunkin' mobile app sometimes adds unexpected overcharges for everything from cream cheese on his bagels to whipped cream on his frozen hot chocolate has filed what he hopes will be a class-action suit against the company. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 3:44 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a proposed plea to the state legislature to grant Boston 250 new liquor licenses - but only for certain neighborhoods. Read more.

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