Boston Police responded to River Street and Edgewater Drive in Mattapan on a report of at least four rounds fired around 9:20 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
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By adamg - 5/2/24 - 9:18 pm
Boston Police report arresting two alleged package thieves and one shoplifter over the past week, two at Washington and Morse streets in Dorchester and one at 108 River St. in Mattapan. Read more.
By adamg - 5/1/24 - 12:39 pm
The co-owner of Economy Plumbing and Heating Supply on Morton Street in Mattapan was charged yesterday with filing false federal tax returns for several years so he could buy $10 million worth of gold - and silver - bars, the US Attorney's office in Boston announced. Read more.
By adamg - 4/27/24 - 9:02 pm
Victim identified as George Deeble, 42, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Fremont Street around 4:45 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 4/27/24 - 1:27 pm
The FCC says it's grown tired of a man it says has been running an illegal radio station via transmitters in Mattapan, Randolph and Brockton for nearly two decades, so it's now proposing to fine him $597,775 in an attempt to get him to stay off the air. Read more.
By adamg - 4/18/24 - 1:24 pm
Melvin Gross, who says he was one of the two people shot at a party at 1601 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 6 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2023, today sued the building's owner for allegedly failing to keep him safe. Read more.
By adamg - 4/3/24 - 11:31 am
Former Transit Police officer Jacob Green yesterday sued TPD Chief Kenneth Green, TPD Superintendent Richard Sullivan, the MBTA, former Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins and former Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, alleging he was forced into early retirement in 2022 because Green hates white people and veterans and because Rollins and Arroyo conspired to make a big deal out of what he claims was a road-rage run-in with an angry Black guy on his way to work one day. Read more.
By adamg - 3/17/24 - 1:59 pm
Streetsblog Mass gets the scoop that the MBTA and Keolis are going to try to get battery-operated trains running on the Fairmount Line within 3 1/2 years in a pilot aimed at increasing the frequency of trains, shorten trip times and replace some antiquated old diesel-powered trains. Read more.
By adamg - 3/15/24 - 12:14 pm
The state Department of Revenue yesterday formally moved to seize Simco's, 1509 Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan, for non-payment of $736,000 in taxes and interest. Read more.
By adamg - 3/2/24 - 11:58 am
The Dorchester Reporter talks to people with reservations about the $44-million project, which would include new center bus lanes.
By adamg - 2/29/24 - 9:19 am
The Dorchester Reporter has the details of the plan, which calls for reconstruction to start in 2026.
By adamg - 2/23/24 - 9:48 am
Writing in the Pilot, Thomas Lester explains how the main route between Roslindale and Mattapan squares was named for Roslindale's first Catholic pastor, who helped set up what is now Sacred Heart Church on Brown Avenue at what is now one of Boston's non-highway highways.
By adamg - 2/8/24 - 9:18 am
The Dorchester Reporter has the details on the $32-million project that will stretch into 2025 and include new signals, bike lanes, wider sidewalks, new trees and a roundabout at roundabout at the Weybosset/Greenwood Street intersection.
By adamg - 2/6/24 - 5:44 pm
Mayor Wu announced today that the city's dipping some more into its federal Covid relief funds to continue paying to let riders get on the 23, 28 and 29 buses for free for another two years. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/24 - 1:46 pm
A personal care assistant for a 95-year-old woman in Dorchester faces charges that she withdrew $120,000 from her client's bank account, stole $30,000 in rent payments from a tenant in the woman's house and then forced the house into foreclosure, by taking out a reverse mortgage on it, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 1/18/24 - 12:27 am
A man was stabbed inside 442 River St. in Mattapan around 9:50 p.m. on Wednesday. Due to the severity of his injuries, the homicide unit was called in, just in case. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 2:57 pm
Rendering by Context.
A Quincy developer has filed plans with the BPDA to build a five-story, 42-unit apartment building at 819 Cummins Highway, on what are now four vacant lots next to the Fairmount Line train tracks and across from the newly constructed Cote Village Apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/24 - 2:01 pm
A Mattapan man on parole after serving an eight-year federal sentence for sex trafficking a minor was sentenced to 33 more months behind bars last week for witness intimidation, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
By adamg - 1/1/24 - 9:15 pm
Mattapan Line riders had to take a bus for most of the day because of a cavalcade of trolley problems today. WCVB reports that when a trolley died at Butler this morning, the T sent out another trolley to try to push it to the Mattapan yard. But then that trolley died. So the T sent out a third trolley to push the two newly deceased trolleys down the short line. It died, too.
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