A marina on one side of the unused, decaying Pier 5 at the Charlestown Navy Yard and a non-profit sailing program on the other side last week submitted the only two proposals to the city for redeveloping the site. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 03/17/2025 - 9:36am
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By adamg - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 12:27pm
Back in 1913, Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown between the Prison Point Bridge (today's Gilmore Bridge) and Sullivan Square was lined with shops catering to horse owners - from "horse shoers" to harness makers, as seen in this photo by Curtis Wolcott of several shops near where Tibbetts Town Way used to intersect with the avenue. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 02/06/2025 - 11:41am
Nora Nelson, 24, is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow on charges she killed Joseph Donohue, 65, on his Charlestown houseboat by stabbing him repeatedly, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 02/05/2025 - 7:13pm
By adamg - Mon, 02/03/2025 - 9:53am
Update: Police say Joseph Donohue, 65, was stabbed repeatedly.
Boston Police report they are investigating the suspicious death of a man on a houseboat at the Charlestown Marina off Shipway Place in Charlestown. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 01/25/2025 - 11:53pm
A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 25 Polk St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 11:40 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg - Mon, 01/06/2025 - 4:07pm
A pair of men from Charlestown were arraigned Friday on charges they concocted a bogus armed-robbery story to make off with cash from Cava, a Mediterranean restaurant at 125 Summer St. downtown, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/06/2025 - 11:26am
Boston Police report arresting a Charlestown man on charges he gunned down Joseph Donahue of Charlestown, whose body was found in the parking lot of the Main Street 7-Eleven on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 01/05/2025 - 9:15pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report a man found lying in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday was dead from a gunshot wound. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 12/31/2024 - 11:58am
Boston Police report arresting a local and a guy from Wakefield on charges they held up the Star convenience store at 134 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 6:15 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/23/2024 - 2:07pm
The city announced today it's installed four vending machines that dispense Narcan, clean syringes and fentanyl test kits - with room for possible later additions that could include pregnancy test kits and socks - and is working to install another eight machines that dispense Narcan across the city. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 2:45pm
By adamg - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 11:35pm
Somebody fired around 10 rounds in the area of 105 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 9 p.m. No victims, but at least two cars hit by bullets.
By adamg - Tue, 11/26/2024 - 1:42pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans by Jack Kelly III of Charlestown to open a dispensary at 31 Cambridge St., a short distance from an existing dispensary. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 10:03am
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say held up the 7-Eleven at 140 Main St. in Charlestown Sunday night. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 10:24pm
By adamg - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 3:44pm
Eric Bender photographed the USS Nantucket, docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard today. The Nantucket is a $500-million "littoral combat ship," aimed at close-to-shore operations, but which have been plagued with problems. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 11/04/2024 - 9:11am
Chelsea Scanner was up before the new sunrise this morning to capture dawn's early light over the Tobin and the Mystic River.
By adamg - Sun, 10/20/2024 - 11:04pm
Shortly after 6 p.m., a cannon onboard Old Ironsides misfired and seemed to have lobbed a projectile at a building on the grounds of the Charlestown Navy Yard. Read more
By adamg - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 2:05pm
Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.
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