Big helicopter
By adamg - Fri, 03/27/2015 - 2:01pm

Specifically Roxbury and Dorchester with a jaunt up to Kendall Square. It's prep work for Monday's visit by the Obamas and Uncle Joe to Columbia Point for the opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate - next to the Kennedy Library.

By adamg - Thu, 03/12/2015 - 6:58pm

The BRA today approved a $23-million proposal by the Boston Teachers Union to replace its current headquarters next to the old Bayside Expo Center with a more modern structure and a parking garage.

By adamg - Wed, 03/04/2015 - 10:30am

The Boston Fire Department reports a 100x100-foot section of the roof at the old Bayside Expo Center collapsed around 7:35 a.m.

By adamg - Thu, 07/10/2014 - 1:51pm

A Suffolk County grand jury this week indicted two brothers on charges they used a detachable steering wheel and a knife in a brawl outside a party at the DoubleTree Hotel on Mt.

By adamg - Mon, 03/10/2014 - 8:01pm

Boston Police report the man stabbed to death in a fight that spilled out of the Doubletree Hotel on Mt. Vernon Street on March 1 was Christopher Borgella, 23, of Dorchester.

Borgella was fatally stabbed around 2:35 a.m. in a fight that sent another man to the hospital.

By adamg - Mon, 03/03/2014 - 10:44am

Boston Police report a large party in a room at the Doubletree Hotel on Mt. Vernon Street early Saturday spilled into the street outside and ended with two men stabbed, one fatally.

Police have yet to make any arrests for the stabbings, which happened around 2:35 a.m., but Capt. John Greland at C-6 says there is "a very active investigation."

By adamg - Fri, 01/24/2014 - 5:03pm

Over the past few days, four catalytic converters have been detached from vehicles, according to Capt. John Greland at C-6:

By adamg - Mon, 10/14/2013 - 12:11pm

Boston Police report the Harbor Point Convenience Store, 17 Harbor Point Blvd., was held up around 8:10 p.m. on Sunday:

By adamg - Wed, 06/19/2013 - 2:57pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports a local company is looking at the possibility of setting up a mass-transit system on Columbia Point that would use tiny pods on a

By adamg - Mon, 06/03/2013 - 8:43pm

Updated Tuesday morning.

By adamg - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 7:48am

Tree on hill at UMass Boston

By adamg - Sat, 03/23/2013 - 8:09pm
By adamg - Mon, 10/29/2012 - 2:55pm

Flooding along JFK library

Dev traveled along the water in Dorchester this afternoon, making stops at the Harborwalk by the JFK library (above), Malibu Beach and Morrissey Boulevard (below), which seemed unusually flooded even for its normally flood-prone self:

Wet Morrissey Boulevard

By adamg - Fri, 04/29/2011 - 1:37pm

District C-6 reports:

By adamg - Fri, 12/17/2010 - 4:30pm

A 385-pound chunk of concrete plummeted from a ceiling, but school officials said no problems, it happened in an area where nobody is suppos

By adamg - Fri, 11/21/2008 - 8:16am

The Dorchester Reporter breaks the news that Corcoran Jennison Companies is considering canceling its giant "Bayside on the Point" project because the MWRA is refusing to budge on its plans to build an odor-control plant nearby.

The housing project would replace the current Bayside Expo Center; the odor-control plant would use carbon filters and a smokestack to get rid of odors from up to 18-million gallons of sewage-laden storm runoff. The paper talks to South End residents who live near a similar treatment plant.