Charlestown

Kraft soccer stadium in Everett gets closer in legislative deal

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 10:24 pm

The State House News Service reports a required land-use change for the Everett land where the Krafts want to build a home for the New England Revolution is included in an economic-development bill. Read more.

There's a reason they still call it the Navy Yard

By adamg - 11/9/24 - 3:44 pm

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.

Mystical sunrise

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 9:11 am

Sunrise over the Tobin Bridge and the Mystic River

Chelsea Scanner was up before the new sunrise this morning to capture dawn's early light over the Tobin and the Mystic River.

USS Constitution fires on Charlestown, but not intentionally

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 11:04 pm

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

Ted Williams has a tunnel and soon Bill Russell will get a bridge

By adamg - 10/18/24 - 2:05 pm

Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.

311 complaint of the day: Pop, pop, pop all night long as unignited gas keeps exploding in a busted Charlestown gas lamp

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 1:20 pm

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a broken gas lamp on Essex Street in Charlestown: Read more.

Man gets six to eight years for beating woman, then carving her face with a razor blade in a Charlestown apartment

By adamg - 10/2/24 - 5:52 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Ismail Mohamed, 40, to six to eight years in state prison and three years of probation for the way he beat a woman until her face swelled up, then used a razor blade to slice her face, he claimed, to reduce the swelling, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Charlestown man won't take sides in presidential election

By adamg - 9/20/24 - 1:14 pm

CommonWealth Beacon considers the decision by Sean O’Brien, a Medford native who worked his way up from Teamsters Local 25 in Charlestown to become president of the national union, not to have the union make an endorsement in this year's presidential election. It notes that a number of Teamsters locals have endorsed Harris, including Local 122 in Dorchester.

For second time in a year, Irish pub grub to make way for Latin fare, this time in Charlestown

By adamg - 9/11/24 - 11:47 am

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve Matthew Sullivan's plan to change his eponymous Sullivan's Public House at 85-87 Main St. in Charlestown into a taco joint called Town Taqueria. Read more.

Charlestown vows to keep a close eye on possible soccer stadium next door in Everett

By adamg - 9/5/24 - 9:35 am

The Charlestown Neighborhood Council is setting up a Soccer Stadium Committee to ensure Charlestown has some say on the 25,000-seat soccer stadium Robert Kraft wants to build just over the line in Everett, near the casino, the Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports.

Improvement on the Orange Line: Train dies above ground with a bang, but it doesn't catch fire and nobody feels the need to jump off a bridge

By adamg - 8/19/24 - 10:10 pm

Passengers walking on Orange Line tracks

Passengers being evacuated from dead Orange Line train via the tracks. From video by Tim Lawrence.

Tim Lawrence was on one of the new Orange Line trains when it pulled out of Community College, made a couple of loud banging sounds and then died on the flyover towards Sullivan Square, shortly before 7 p.m. He reports on the wait and eventual evacuation: Read more.

A very Silver Line sunset

By adamg - 8/12/24 - 10:44 pm

Sunset as seen from inside a Silver Line bus

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Ari Ofsevit reports he had to sit on on the luggage rack in a very crowded Silver Line bus this afternoon but at least he got a good view of the sunset over the Tobin Bridge.

Fire-hazed sunset over Charlestown

By adamg - 8/1/24 - 11:04 pm

Sun setting over Charlestown as seen from the East Boston waterfront

Matt Frank watched the sun go down in East Boston through the haze of western fires over Charlestown this evening.

Court overturns life sentence for getaway driver in 2014 Charlestown murder for which the two accused shooters were acquitted

By adamg - 7/24/24 - 9:45 am

The Supreme Judicial Court yesterday overturned Julio Baez's first-degree murder sentence, saying prosecutors failed to provide evidence that Baez knew the men who actually did gun down Ryan Morrissey on Main Street in Charlestown in 2014 were planning to shoot him. Read more.

Engine-room fire in a ship docked in Charlestown quickly doused

By adamg - 7/22/24 - 11:18 pm

Firefighters get ready to board ship. Photo by BFD.

Boston firefighters responded to the Boston Autoport off Terminal Street in Charlestown after some electrical equipment caught on fire around 8:30 p.m. in the engine room of the Symphony, which had arrived in Boston from Dublin earlier in the day. Read more.

Man holds up Charlestown Whole Foods with an axe; on brutally hot day, he made off with some refreshing drinks, police say

By adamg - 7/18/24 - 4:28 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say held up the Charlestown Whole Foods, 27 Austin St., around 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

Flaming manhole takes out power in part of Charlestown

By adamg - 7/16/24 - 9:27 pm

Update: Restoration time pushed back to 2:15 a.m.

The Boston Fire Department responded to 265 Main St., near School Street, in Charlestown when a manhole exploded around 5:45 p.m. As of 9:20 p.m., Eversource is reporting 295 homes and businesses are without power, which it hopes to restore by 10:15 p.m.

J.L. Bell begins to tell us the story of one of the Massachusetts Historical Society's more unusual mementos from the Battle of Bunker (yes, really Breed's) Hill: A large plaque with crossed swords, one used during the battle by Col. William Prescott from the provincial troops and the other used by Capt. John Linzee of the Royal Navy.