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By adamg - 9/5/24 - 3:19 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports workers today carted away the howitzer that long sat outside the American Legion Old Dorchester Post 65 next to the Eire Pub, because the post was shut recently and sold to a developer planning a building aimed at people between 55 and 65. The gun is being given to a veterans post on the Cape.

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 9:40 am

Boston Police report arresting three of the four suspects in the armed holdup of everybody inside Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall yesterday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 9/15/23 - 1:41 pm

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a request from Saigon Chicken House, 223 Adams St. in Dorchester, to buy the beer-and-wine license from a defunct South End Thai place. Read more.

By adamg - 6/10/23 - 10:40 pm
Three decker on fire on Adams Street

The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire in a three decker at 80 Adams St., at Lyon Street in Dorchester sent one firefighter to the hospital with minor injuries and displaced seven residents. Read more.

By adamg - 6/16/22 - 10:26 am
1169-1171 Adams St. rendering

Rendering by Spalding Tougias Architects.

A North End developer has filed plans to replace an equipment-rental place and a vacant house at 1161-1169 Adams St. in Dorchester Lower Mills with a five-story, 29-unit condo building - with 29 parking spaces. Read more.

By adamg - 6/15/22 - 11:24 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld Dominic Shiner's conviction for voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of Sean Dwyer outside Dwyer's Adams Street barber shop in 2014. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/21 - 3:31 pm
Santa suit at a Dorchester dry cleaner

Because they close at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Voo Doo reports.

By adamg - 11/18/21 - 11:54 am

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Kenneth Blasi permission to buy out his brother Joseph and re-open Blasi Cafe, 762 Adams St. in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 11/11/21 - 10:50 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Blasi's Cafe, 762 Adams St. in Dorchester, is seeking to re-open.

Blasi's was heavily damaged in a two-alarm fire in September, 2017.

By adamg - 7/3/21 - 12:06 pm
Firefighters at Adams Street fire

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 115 Adams St. around 11 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.

By adamg - 1/26/21 - 5:14 pm

BPD Seek ID

Boston Police have released video of two of the three men they say have beaten and robbed people near the intersection of Ashmont and Adams streets the past two Saturdays. Read more.

By adamg - 1/7/21 - 11:04 am

The Dorchester Reporter fills our cup with an update on the South Boston bucket-coffee place's return to Adams Village - in renovated space in the building where Windy City used to be until a fire in 2019. The Windy City space itself will be taken by a cookie place.

By adamg - 12/24/20 - 10:20 am

A Suffolk Superior Court judge this week ordered Anthony Nicholes, 50, continue to be held without bail on a second-degree murder charge for the stabbing death of Onell Colon on Adams Street in Dorchester on July 3. Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/20 - 11:13 pm
Ambulance about to leave with shooting victim

Ambulance about to leave with victim. Photo by Live Boston.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Live Boston reports BPD officers responding to a ShotSpotter call found a man with several gunshot wounds in a car at Gallivan Boulevard and Adams Street around 3:15 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/2/20 - 3:14 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a box cutter to hold up somebody on Adams Street in Dorchester last night - only to find the victim had just a quarter - and then punched another person who refused to give him any money at all. Read more.

By adamg - 10/2/20 - 2:02 pm
Guns, ammo and knife

Seized guns, ammo and knife. Photo by State Police.

Boston and State Police report arresting three men on gun charges in two incidents on Adams Street in Dorchester less than two hours apart overnight - with one of them after he was allegedly driving around Dorchester with two guns, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and a knife. Read more.

By adamg - 8/27/20 - 8:41 am
Man in ambulance in Dorchester

Man about to be transported to the hospital. Photo by Live Boston.

Victim identified as James Martin, 26.

Boston Police report a man was shot at 336 Adams St., at Neponset Avenue, around 10:40 p.m. on Wednesday. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/20 - 11:36 pm

Victim identified as Jason Brandao, 28, of Dorchester.

Around 11:15 p.m. at 121 Adams Street at Leedsville Street. A man was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A woman was also shot, but she is expected to survive, police say.

Boston murders in 2020.

By adamg - 7/4/20 - 2:03 pm
Fields Corner crime scene

Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.

Victim identified as Onell Colon, 36, of Dorchester.

Boston Police report a man was stabbed around 11 p.m. on July 3 at 205 Adams St. in Dorchester's Fields Corner. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/19 - 11:47 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a plan by Lisa Fonseca-Depina to convert the current Eglise Baptiste les Sentinelles, 417 Adams St., into a six-seat nail salon called Glam Gawds. Read more.

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