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Fresh off awarding some three dozen new alcohol licenses, the Boston Licensing Board today began interviewing a new set of applicants for some of the beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses the state legislature last year approved for 13 specific Boston Zip codes: Read more.
Stavros Papantoniadis, already serving an 8 1/2-year federal prison sentence for physically and mentally abusing immigrant workers at pizza shops in Dorchester, Roslindale and Norwood, today pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal Covid-19 relief fund out of $500,000 for a Randolph pizza place he no longer owned. Read more.
Eversource is blaming "equipment damage" for a blackout that started around 8:10 p.m. along Washington Street between Roslindale Square and Forest Hills. It says it hopes to have the power back by 12:15 a.m.
The staff at the Boston Landmarks Commission this week recommended that the Fox House on Metropolitan Avenue at Maynard Street in Roslindale be designated an official city landmark for both its architectural history and qualities and the lives of some of its early owners. Read more.
A Roslindale developer has filed plans for a four-story, 46-unit apartment building at 586 Canterbury St. next to the ScrubaDub, the Rozzie apartment building and the brook that runs along American Legion Highway. Read more.
The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning Washington and Poplar streets along Adams Park and creating a more plaza-like feel to the intersection of Belgrade Avenue with South and Roberts streets. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a Taunton convenience-store owner to replace the old Simco's hot-dog stand at American Legion Highway and Canterbury Street with Tasty Kabob and Curry. Read more.
Brookline.News reports the teen, not named because of his age, is charged with shooting another teen on New Terrace Road in Brookline, not far from Jamaica Pond, on Saturday. Three other teens were also charged in connection with the shooting.
A driver ran his or her car into the front steps of a triple decker at 4436 Washington St. at Wellsmere Road in Roslindale around 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday The car's air bags went off and ISD was requested to check the structural integrity of the building.
That's the same intersection where two drivers collided in November, sending one vehicle into a tree and flipping the other on its roof.
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.
Boston Police report arresting three teens they say they found in a stolen car and seizing a gun loaded with nine bullets and the wallet of the car's owner, in the parking lot of the Wendy's at American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street in Roslindale early Saturday. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 65 Cornell St. for a fire shortly before 8:10 p.m.
The fire started in the wall and eaves on one side of the two-story, single-family home. The fire was reported knocked down at 8:23 p.m. No reports of injuries.
Boston firefighters responded to 97 Paine St. in Roslindale for a fire around 5 p.m.
The Boston Fire Department reports the fire, which started in the attic, caused no injuries, but says two adults and four children were displaced.
BPS acknowledged this month that putting students and teachers in a school building undergoing massive reconstruction and enlargement isn't working - for either the kids or the construction workers. But part of its solution for construction delays at the former Washington Irving Middle School in Roslindale - moving the classes out, some to the basement of the Roslindale Square community center - has some parents outraged. Read more.
B'nai B'rith Housing last week paid $3 million for the abandoned Bank of America branch on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square - and its parking lot with entrances on Cohasset and Washington streets - according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let Home Market, 165 Belgrade Ave. in Roslindale, expand its current beer and wine license to include all alcoholic beverages, after hearing from the store's new owner that she would focus on Greek spirits, rather than simply trying to compete with the more common liquor already for sale at Punta Cana right across the street. Read more.
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