Quincy

Somebody was stowing a portable pill-making plant, fentanyl in Quincy trailer, police say

By adamg - 1/11/21 - 11:59 am

Pill-making equipment seized in Wollaston

Photo via Quincy PD

Quincy Police report the seizure of "a large-scale, illegal pill manufacturing operation" along with "a large quantity of fentanyl, powder base precursors, and commercial-grade pharmaceutical pill presses and machinery used in manufacturing" in a trailer stored in a rental-garage facility in the residential section of Wollaston.

All the stuff, seized on Jan. 6, was transported to police headquarters for safekeeping while DEA agents hunt the people who may have owned and used the equipment, police say.

One of area's few options for Filipino food shutting down

By adamg - 1/11/21 - 11:52 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the impending end of JnJ Turo Turo in Quincy.

Quincy man pleads guilty to selling bleach-dispensing amulet as coronavirus fighter

By adamg - 12/18/20 - 3:11 pm

A Quincy man who used eBay to sell a Japanese amulet that dispenses bleach fumes faces up to a year in prison after pleading guilty to distribution and sale of an unregistered pesticide, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

Considerate Quincy bank robber pulls mask over nose before going up to teller

By adamg - 12/12/20 - 11:22 am

He walks in, writes a demand note, then pulls his mask up before going up to a teller.

The FBI has released photos of a man who held up the TD Bank branch at 323 Hancock St. in Quincy yesterday. Read more.

Convicted sex offender charged with using hunting knife to try to hold up two teens at Quincy Center T stop

By adamg - 11/30/20 - 9:19 pm

Transit Police report arresting Vernard Shepard, 31, on charges he threatened two juveniles with a double-sided hunting knife after they refused his request for money at the Quincy Center T station around 7:10 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

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Abigail Adams's quiet Thanksgiving

By adamg - 11/26/20 - 10:39 am

J.L. Bell recounts Abigail Adams's Thanksgiving in 1798, when husband John was off presidenting in Philadelphia (Thanksgiving then being just a New England thing, not a national holiday), her children were far away (sons John Quincy and Thomas Boylston being the farthest, in Moscow, where John was his father's minister to Russia and Thomas was along for the ride) and her nearby relatives were ill. Two neighbors did join her, as did Phoebe Abdee, originally her father's slave, who continued to work for the family even after she was freed.

Man charged with attacking MBTA bus driver who asked him to put a mask on

By adamg - 11/12/20 - 9:24 am

Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester man - already wanted on an assault-and-battery charge - with beating a T bus driver in Quincy yesterday after the driver asked him to mask up. Read more.

Grumpy news out of Quincy

By adamg - 11/11/20 - 4:29 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Grumpy White's in Quincy will serve its last meal on Nov. 21.

Why your train couldn't depart: Red Line delayed by shopping cart

By adamg - 11/9/20 - 10:53 pm

Yes, it's come to this: Around 9 p.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Braintree branch of the Red Line so that workers could remove a shopping car from the tracks at North Quincy.

Boston Apartment Availability Percentage Spikes in Key Neighborhoods - Reveals Ominous Trend

By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm

The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.

If you shopped at the Fruit Basket in Quincy between Oct. 2 and 11, call the Quincy Health Department

By adamg - 10/12/20 - 9:40 pm

WBZ reports a worker at the Fruit Basket Marketplace on Granite Street tested positive for Covid-19 and so is asking anybody who shopped there between Oct. 2 and 11 to check in with the health department.

Restaurants in Charlestown, East Boston and Quincy going into hibernation

By adamg - 10/9/20 - 12:13 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the owners of Pier 6 in Charlestown and ReelHouse in East Boston and Quincy's Marina Bay are putting the three into "winter break" on Nov. 1.

The two-fisted storm

By adamg - 10/8/20 - 10:57 am

Lightning over South Boston and Boston Harbor. See it larger.

From a downtown aerie, Jonathan Berk was thunderstruck during the second wave of yesterday afternoon's storm. Read more.

You've just won your party's primary, maybe you don't feel like putting on pants the next morning

By adamg - 9/8/20 - 12:58 pm

Back in the day, politicians who'd won elections would often invite the press in the next morning to watch them bask in the glow of being a winner. Read more.

North Quincy High's mascot to continue to be Armenian-American dentist, only no longer in redface

By adamg - 8/3/20 - 8:46 pm

WCVB reports North Quincy High School is keeping its mascot Yakoo, only now, instead of looking like an angry Native American about to stomp somebody with a tomahawk, he'll be portrayed as an angry American colonist about to stomp somebody with, um, a bill of rights or something. Read more.