WBUR visited the JFK Library today, and fills in some details of its sudden closing yesterday:
" People were crying. It was surreal," she said. "We were with a gentleman who had just come in from Canada who said, 'I don't understand what's happening in your country.' "
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Side Chick, 692 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Nobody spoke against the change at a hearing yesterday. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that the chain, long kept out of Boston by Tom Menino, is looking to move into Dorchester and Mattapan, with the backing of Mattapan state Rep. Russell Holmes, who says he's looking for "a Chick-fil-A in Black Dorchester, or [anywhere] in Dorchester" with local franchise owners.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Aizavier Roache, 31, to 4 3/4 years in prison for selling at least six guns he'd obtained from a pal who bought them at gun shops in South Carolina. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman found dead of stab wounds inside 43 Claybourne St. in Dorchester around 2:45 p.m. on Monday.
A judge in US District Court in Boston yesterday sentenced Devante "D-Lopes" Lopes, 31, of Quincy to five years in prison and James "Bummy" Rodrigues, 34, of Boston to 3 1/2 years in prison for their roles in Dorchester's Cameron Street gang, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A man drove into at house at 167 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester around 2:15 a.m. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on an early morning crash that left a car embedded in the Ashmont Nursery School at Washington and Ashmont streets in Dorchester.
Sometime before 7:40 a.m., the driver of a Corolla slammed into a traffic-light pole on the southbound side of Blue Hill Avenue at Columbia Road in Dorchester, sending the pole slamming down across the road and creating an instant traffic jam. No serious injuries, at least.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Harbor Point resident and Corcoran Jennison Companies are asking state regulators to reconsider their approval of the $5-billion Dorchester Bay City project, arguing, among other things, the development would lead to even more flooding on the peninsula.
Victim identified as Kareem DaVeiga-Booth, 20, of Brighton.
A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Dwight "Dog Bite" Watson to life, but with the possibility of parole after 18 years, after he admitted stabbing Urvin Gerald, 58, in the parking lot of the Mount Horeb Lodge on Harvard Street in Dorchester on July 16, 2022. Read more.
Boston Police detectives keeping tabs on prostitution at Mass and Cass by browsing online sex-for-hire ads spotted a woman they knew as "a victim of exploitation and violent assaults" arranged a "date" with her trafficker at the Holiday Inn Express on Boston Street and then arrested him when both people drove up Monday night, police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed a clerk in the stomach at O'Brien's Market and Deli, 1660 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, around 8:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board agreed today to let the family of convicted pizza guy Stavros Papantoniadis keep food-serving licenses for his Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale now that they've written him out of the businesses and said they are planning to sell off both locations to other operators. Read more.
Lawyers for the Papantoniadis family, which owns Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let it keep the food-serving licenses for the two places now that Stavros Papantoniadis is serving an 8 1/2-year federal sentence for beating, threatening, berating and underpaying his immigrant workers. Read more.
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
Copyright by Adam Gaffin and by content posters.
Advertise | About Universal Hub | Contact | Privacy
