The Fort Pointer said farewell to Roy of Harry's Cheese and Cold Cuts, 98 Blackstone St. at Haymarket, who is retiring later this month after 40 years in business.
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By adamg - 12/1/23 - 2:42 pm
Josh Kraft, of the New England Patriots Krafts, is suddenly being touted as as possible candidate for Boston mayor in 2025, because, well, why not? CommonWealth Beacon reports he already has a bunch of ties to Boston, including a long turn as president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. He's a past Charlie Baker donor and gave money to several council candidates supported by Trump backer and New Balance Chairman Jim Davis, who doesn't like the incumbent.
By adamg - 11/29/23 - 4:21 pm
An employee of an accounting firm in the Hancock Building today sued Los Amigos Tacos for what she says were the horrifying effects of eating salmonella-contaminated food from its Brighton Center outlet three days before Boston health inspectors ordered the place shut due to a salmonella outbreak. Read more.
By adamg - 11/28/23 - 2:10 pm
The state Attorney General's office reported today that Rent-A-Center illegally filed 951 criminal complaints over a three-year period against consumers who fell behind on their payments for the TVs, furniture and refrigerators they were renting - and sent employees to try to get into consumers homes, to the point of trying their doorknobs if nobody answered their pounding on doors and windows. Read more.
By adamg - 11/24/23 - 10:26 am
A company called Boston Safety Training that offers workplace safety training, including first aid, has filed a trademark lawsuit against a company called Greater Boston Safety Training, which offers first aid and related training, including babysitter training. Read more.
By adamg - 11/19/23 - 6:15 pm
Residents in Hyde Park have started sending e-mail and letters to Shaw's to try to get April Ricci re-instated as manager of the Hyde Park Avenue store. Read more.
By adamg - 11/17/23 - 10:19 am
Matov during Tuesday hearing.
Alex Matov, whose Garage nightclub on Linden Street in Allston was ordered shut last year after a series of violent incidents, is asking the Boston Licensing Board to let him sell the place's liquor license to a new nightclub operator, who would re-open the club and run it until Matov can gain the financing he needs to replace the building with a new apartment complex - one that might have room for a nightclub of its own. Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/23 - 11:44 am
The Boston Licensing Board today indefinitely suspended the liquor license for Crave, 128 Brighton Ave. in Allston, because its owner neither showed up nor sent anybody to represent her at a hearing this week over a growing list of problems cited by police, from violence to traffic-clogging double parking outside. Read more.
By adamg - 11/15/23 - 10:04 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved a marijuana dispensary at 1295-1297 River St., in Hyde Park, but owner Geneise Israel said that even if she now quickly gets the required state approval, she won't open her door until after the decaying and now closed River Street Bridge right next door is re-opened. Read more.
By adamg - 11/13/23 - 9:38 pm
The Hamilton Co., which owns the office building at 392-398 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Cleveland Circle, today sued to try to block plans by an Ipswich concern to turn the former Dunkin' Donuts on Beacon Street into a marijuana dispensary. Read more.
By adamg - 11/13/23 - 2:21 pm
The Bay State Banner considers what the arrival of a Starbucks at the strip mall on River Street on the Hyde Park/Mattapan line might say about impending gentrification.
Citizen complaint of the day: That stupid copter has doubled back to Roslindale, get it outaaa heah!
By adamg - 11/12/23 - 2:17 pm
It only seems like the copter's gotten tangled in the wires along Rowe Street.
A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about that helicopter Amtrak hired to survey the power lines along the Northeast Corridor, which had been slowly moving north, but which is now hovering low over Roslindale again, specifically, Rowe Street: Read more.
By adamg - 11/9/23 - 9:29 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports that, in an unusual move, the new owner of a parcel on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester that has long been home to a plumbing-supply business plans to build a new plumbing warehouse there, rather than try to put in apartments or condos.
By adamg - 11/6/23 - 10:05 pm
Nike says this is an example of its patented sneaker techniques.
Nike today formally charged Brighton+based New Balance with infringing on several of its patents for producing pretty much everything in a sneaker above the sole and tread. Read more.
By adamg - 11/6/23 - 4:32 pm
WBUR reports Clover Food Lab filed for Chap. 11 bankruptcy in Delaware federal court on Friday, citing "low sales, high rent and lack of funding."
By adamg - 11/6/23 - 9:38 am
Cambridge Day reports that Rockler Woodworking and Hardware in Porter Square is closing next month - and has already marked down everything by 30%.
By adamg - 11/3/23 - 11:53 pm
A federal jury in Boston today convicted a one-time NESN vice-president of defrauding the network out of $575,000 by routing money meant to pay an online consultant to a fake company he controlled.
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By adamg - 11/3/23 - 11:41 am
Outages at 11:30 a.m., via Eversource outage map.
Update, 3:15 p.m. Eversource reports 139 homes and businesses still without power in Boston, but no outages in Dedham, Brookline and Newton.
Eversource is blaming "equipment damage" for widespread outages that started around 10:45 a.m. in an area that extends from Brookline and Newton streets in the north to most of West Roxbury and Dedham in the south. Parts of Roslindale as far east as Roslindale Square are also affected. Read more.
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