A group of North End restaurant owners and the North End Chamber of Commerce today asked a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling by a judge that the city had the right to treat the neighborhood differently and impose fees for putting patios on public sidewalks and roads - or even just to bar them altogether. 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.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Daily Table is closing its store on River Street in Mattapan Square on Sunday, says it just wasn't drawing enough business. Other Daily Table stores, including the original one in Codman Square, will remain open.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 35 Freeport Way in Dorchester for a fire in a metal-clad building around 11 p.m. on Sunday. The department reports one person inside was transported to the hospital with injuries.
Watertown News reports on the flour that fell on neighboring streets like snow earlier this month from a silo at the Newly Weds factory.
A federal judge ruled today North End restaurant owners simply had no case against Mayor Wu for first ordering fees on North End restaurants that wanted to use city sidewalks and curbs for outdoor dining and then banning private patios on public ways in the neighborhood. Read more.
An oncology professor at the University of California, Irvine yesterday agreed to hand over $1.52 million in profits he made by buying stock in Nuvalent before it announced positive news about a lung-cancer drug for which he was running clinical trials and then selling it after the news led to a jump in the stock's price.
Dr. Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou also agreed to pay a $1.52 million fine on top of that, according to documents filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in US District Court in Boston yesterday. Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to Samari's Nails and Beauty, 993 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, around 9:55 p.m. on Tuesday for a fire. With three hoses pumping water, firefighters knocked the fire down in about seven minutes, but the damage had been done and the store was boarded up today.
Cambridge Day reports on the impending end of Whitney's, which opened on JFK Street when it was still called Boylston Street.
The Boston Licensing Board concluded yesterday that Big Night Live was not to blame for a massive series of brawls on Causeway Street last October that ended with two cops, an EMT and several costumed pugilists injured and three people facing criminal charges. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a ten-day halt to alcohol sales at the Harvard Convenience Store, Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue because of a BPD raid in May that found a room with three slots machines and gamblers quaffing beers from the store's stock. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the quick vote today by the Boston City Council to set tax rates that could mean a more than 10% increase for residential property owners after state senators refused to OK a deal between Mayor Wu and local business groups on a three-year measure to east that burden somewhat by letting the city increase commercial tax rates. The council also approved the usual tax break for residential owners who live in their own homes.
Boston was hoping to send out property-tax bills this month with a bit of a break for homeowners. Only problem: state Sen. Nick Collins, who represents South Boston and Dorchester, managed to get any discussion of a bill to let the city temporarily set a higher rate on commercial property until at least Thursday. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved plans by Jack Kelly III of Charlestown to open a dispensary at 31 Cambridge St., a short distance from an existing dispensary. Read more.
Seven years after the Boston Conservation Commission gave him approval, a construction company hired by Ronen Drory recently began work to convert a long vacant lot on VFW Parkway southbound in West Roxbury into one of his Prestige car washes - right across from Adam Korngold's Waves car wash on the northbound side of the road. Read more.
A self-storage company says it wants to convert a hulking six-story records-storage warehouse at 120-134 Hampden St. into a hulking six-story self-storage complex that would include a climate-controlled place for people to store wine until they're ready to sell or drink it. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the landlord of the defunct Sons of Boston/Loyal 9 buy its liquor license as it looks for a more food-oriented restaurant operator to re-open the troubled space. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a billboard company's plan to replace the rusted old billboards down the hill from the Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine on Rte. 1A in East Boston with a double-sided electronic signboard, after hearing from residents and elected officials that the plan would remove a local eyesore and help fund the religious order that owns the property. Read more.
Rendering by Anthony Pisani.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by serial North End restaurant owner Frank DePasquale to add a second floor to the vacant strip of storefronts on Cross Street between Hanover and Salem street so he can open a series of businesses keyed to Italian culture - including a cooking school to be run with an existing culinary institute in Italy, aimed at both people looking at restaurant careers and residents and even elementary-school students who just want to learn more about Italian cooking. Read more.
A federal appeals court today agreed with a lower-court judge that the manager of the Coolidge Corner Trader Joe's had a legitimate reason to fire a 77-year-old worker, because she had been caught buying beer for her 19-year-old grandson, who also worked at the store at the time. Read more.
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