Mona Xia and Erin Ramirez take us into the kitchen and the history of the largest Chinese restaurant in the country, which serves 100,000 pounds of spare ribs and 55,000 orders of crab rangoon a year.
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By adamg - 10/7/24 - 8:56 am
WCVB reports police arrived to bust up a mini-brawl involving five to six people.
By adamg - 9/30/24 - 10:36 pm
Drew Mulholland reports the venerable Continental in Saugus will be closing the week before Thanksgiving after having served food for 72 years. So that leaves, what, the Kowloon and the Leaning Tower of Pizza, um, Prince Pizza as the last of the big Rte. 1 restaurants?
By adamg - 4/4/24 - 9:48 am
Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.
Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.
By adamg - 12/3/23 - 3:57 pm
WFXT reports on his death, which authorities say was accidental, and which comes two weeks after a now infamous brawl inside the restaurant.
By adamg - 6/16/23 - 1:35 pm
The son of a Saugus woman who willed her body to Harvard Medical School in 2019 today sued Harvard University and its former medical-school morgue director - who now faces federal criminal charges that he ran the morgue as a supermarket for people who liked to collect brains, heads, faces, hearts and other parts from bodies that were only supposed to be used for medical education and research. Read more.
By adamg - 5/17/23 - 9:48 am
A.P. Blake captured the carnage (pickupage?) on Rte. 1 at the Lynnfield Tunnel around 11:30 p.m. yesterday.
The guy passed my wife and I in Saugus moments before crashing and was easily doing over 100, without a doubt. It was terrifying how quickly he went by. Crash sent chunks of concrete all over the road.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:41 am
The owner of a Quality Inn on the Revere/Saugus line is suing the Boston Public Health Commission for the money it says it's owed for holding all of its rooms for three months in 2021 for Mass and Cass denizens who Boston never actually sent there once Revere and Saugus officials erupted in anger on learning of the plan. Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/22 - 2:26 pm
Our local gang of Nazi play actors could only muster up three guys in oh-so-scary face masks (one marked "131," because Nazis love numbers that don't mean anything to anybody but them) to stand over Rte. 1 in Saugus yesterday blaming Jews for something. You can look at a photo if you need to waste 10 seconds of your life.
By adamg - 6/8/22 - 1:38 pm
A former Saugus resident who now lives in Boca Raton, FL got a $2.5 million Payroll Protection Plan loan through a fraudulent application and used the money on cars, a new house and buying cryptocurrency, rather than supporting the 154 employees he didn't actually have, the US Attorney's office in Boston charges. Read more.
By adamg - 9/4/21 - 7:06 pm
Greg Cook kayaked through Rumney Marsh in Saugus yesterday and watched thousands of swallows murmurating. He also spotted fiddler crabs. Lots and lots of fiddler crabs.
By adamg - 6/30/21 - 12:17 pm
Fatz, his mom and Yo Pesci in a fighting stance (from the affidavit).
Federal officials today charged four people with involvement in a north-of-Boston drug ring, including alleged ringleader Vincent "Fatz" Caruso and his mom, Laurie Caruso, who does not have a street nickname. Read more.
By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm
The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.
By adamg - 8/6/20 - 9:11 am
Saugus Police report officers who responded to a report of a stolen U-Haul vehicle this morning found themselves under attack by a man with a knife this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 5/26/20 - 9:56 pm
Saugus Police report a wild turkey flew into the second-floor bedroom of a local house this afternoon - by crashing through a closed window. Read more.
Restaurant owners begin talking about how to adapt: A Kowloon car hop, patio seats on Hanover Street
By adamg - 5/9/20 - 10:41 am
WBZ interviews the owner of Kowloon in Saugus and a North End restaurateur about life after the shutdown ends - and how they're thinking about how to adapt to reduced seating capacities.
By adamg - 11/2/19 - 10:24 am
Photo by Saugus PD.
Saugus Police report a woman drove into Giovanni's Roast Beef & Pizza, 194 Broadway, around 7:20 a.m. Read more.
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