Big land auction in Southie next week; Quincy steak-tips guy pleads guilty
Large swath of land acquired by controversial South Boston developer along Dot Ave to be auctioned off next week
March 9
An auctioneer has scheduled a March 17 sale of more than five acres of land along Dorchester Avenue that South Boston developer Andrew Collins had acquired in the hopes of spawning a large development between D Street and Old Colony Avenue.
Foxborough to Krafts: Shut your dirty, lying mouths
March 9
Foxborough town officials are not going to let FIFA or the Krafts or anybody paint them as the bad guys in the World Cup security brouhaha.
Quincy official admits he satisfied his oversized appetite for bourbon steak tips with city funds
March 9
Quincy's now ex-director of elder affairs pleaded guilty today to a series of charges related to the way he used city funds to pay for 153 pounds of bourbon steak tips, a 2005 Prius he gave to a woman not his wife, repairs to the Prius when that woman crashed it, fees for 170 hours of time at a Weymouth studio to record songs for his wife and...
Firefighter injured at three-alarm fire on Wilmore Street in Mattapan
March 9
Boston firefighters responded to 7 Wilmore St. in Mattapan for what turned into a three-alarm fire around 1:20 p.m.
311 complaint of the day: Bird that belongs in a forest is not doing well in the Back Bay
March 9
A concerned resident filed a 311 report this morning about a poor American woodcock near the post office on Clarendon Street:
Blue Line trains are no mighty mites when the signals die at Orient Heights
March 9
Those pesky Blue Line signals are acting up again, this time at Orient Heights, causing 10-minute delays and causing the dreaded standing by at stations, the MBTA reports.
Right out of the gate, the Red Line was late
March 9
At 5:45 a.m., the MBTA announced Red Line delays of up to 15 minutes because of a train that decided it was all nice and comfy in the train yard and it grudgingly got to Quincy Adams and then demanded its blanket back and refused to move any further. The T announced "the delay has cleared" at 6:21 a.m.
