Boston Police report arresting Jarrid Campbell, 18, and Christ Daphnis, 19, both of Randolph, on murder charges for the Sept. 27 murder of Keenan Ritter on Hubbardston Road.
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By adamg - 1/12/21 - 1:54 pm
Zoning Board of Appeal members said today that they had nothing against the technical aspects of a landlord's plans to convert his two-family house with eight bedrooms into a three-family house with nine bedrooms, but rejected the proposal after neighbors objected to the sort of tenants now living there: Pot-smoking, beer-swilling, rowdy partiers they say spent much of the summer carousing late into the night. Read more.
By adamg - 3/25/20 - 2:42 pm
Kelly Lewis spotted a pair of swans doing some social distancing off the Expressway in Dorchester today.
Meanwhile, over in Cambridge yesterday, Barb spotted a pair of turkeys who know that they now rule the roost outdoors, at least on Bellevue Avenue: Read more.
By adamg - 3/4/20 - 5:04 pm
The MBTA has gotten the person on the tracks near Savin Hill off the tracks and now Red Line trains can rattle along again.
By adamg - 12/18/19 - 9:49 am
Savin Hill Sailor reports the Savin Hill coyote was looking pretty bold and sassy this morning down at the yacht club.
By adamg - 7/31/19 - 5:07 pm
Hailing in Savin Hill pic.twitter.com/bejlPt6IKx
— Summer in the city (@PaulNuttingJr) July 31, 2019
By adamg - 1/19/18 - 9:38 pm
The MBTA reports "minor" residual delays from a Red Line train that couldn't make it up Savin Hill.
By adamg - 10/18/17 - 12:45 pm
Architect's rendering of stars over Savin Hill.
The Board of Appeal yesterday approved a developer's plan to replace a commercial building and two houses with a nine-unit condo building with retail and office space on Savin Hill Avenue at Sydney Street. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/17 - 11:37 am
Gerald Chan, who bought up large chunks of Harvard Square, has plunked down $17 million to buy the 4.7-acre Spire Printing Co. property on Bay Street, next to the Savin Hill T stop, BLDUP.com reports. In 2015, he bought a two-acre parcel nearby on Dewar Street.
Both are within a short walk of the impending DotBlock development on Dorchester Avenue - which he also now owns a piece of.
By adamg - 3/24/17 - 11:22 am
The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Boston police officers had enough details on the suspect in the robbery and shooting of a Dot Ave. convenience-store owner that they had the right to stop a suspect they found four blocks away. Read more.
By adamg - 3/23/17 - 10:28 am
The Dorchester Reporter gets the scoop on plans to replace a long derelict vacant variety store near the Savin Hill T stop.
By adamg - 11/30/16 - 9:24 am
Paul Nutting photographed an early morning crash on I-93 in Savin Hill.
By adamg - 11/17/16 - 5:47 pm
Three 15-year-olds told a woman on the Red Line to go back to her own country before one of them began beating her with her fists and a phone as the train traveled between Savin Hill and Andrew the day before the election last week, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/16 - 5:04 pm
Won't it be grand when the T finally gets those new Red Line trains that shouldn't break as much? Maybe in our lifetimes?
By adamg - 2/11/16 - 1:51 pm
UPDATE: The Herald reports the third guy had a GPS bracelet on, too.
Two of the three men arrested on charges they robbed a Savin Hill market at gunpoint last night were wearing GPS ankle bracelets as a condition of their bail on earlier gun-related arrests, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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