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Rev. Zenetta Armstrong testifies against Camilo application
The Boston Licensing Board on Thursday unanimously approved a plan by Camilo Liquors III to move from its current ramshackle location at the corner of Edgewater Drive and River Street to a better maintained building next door, over the objections of... Read more
Developer Rise Together has told the BPDA it will soon file detailed plans for two six-story residential buildings in Mattapan Square, one to replace a repair garage at 1590 Blue Hill Ave., the other behind it on River Street. The Blue Hill Avenue... Read more
Deering Road fire
The Boston Fire Department reports two adults and two children had to be taken to a local hospital from a fire at 115 Deering Rd. in Mattapan Sunday morning. The department reports firefighters responded shortly after 10 p.m. to a fire that consumed the... Read more
1525 Blue Hill Ave. rendering
The family that owns a house turned health-services building at 1525 Blue Hill Ave. has filed plans to replace it with a five-story building with 16 condos and ground-floor commercial space that 5-story, approximately 21,920 sf building containing 16... Read more
A slahing inside the Macumba Latina men's room early one September morning was followed not long after by a man getting bashed in the head with a baseball bat from behind in a River Street parking lot frequently used by club patrons, police and the club's... Read more
Blue Hill Ave
Federal transportation officials are set to send $15 million to Massachusetts for an overhaul of Blue Hill Avenue, a project aimed at improving access to public transportation and refashioning a key economic corridor of the city, US Reps. Ayanna Pressley... Read more
The owners of Macumba Latina on River Street in Mattapan Square say they have stopped Thursday-night events that were heavily promoted in Brockton following a July incident in which River Street was shut by knots of people throwing punches at each other... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was shot at 37 Almont St. in Mattapan shortly after 3 a.m. on Saturday. He was declared dead at the scene. On Aug. 2, a man was charged with brandishing a gun during a football game at Almont Park. On July 19,... Read more
Hazleton Street fire
Boston firefighters responded to 40 Hazleton St. in Mattapan around 9 a.m. on Sunday for a fire that the Boston Fire Department reports displaced six adults and four children and sent one firefighter to the hospital with a hand injury. The department... Read more
On Wednesday, 12-year-old Journey Johnson stepped onto the train platform at Blue Hill Ave. station with a freshly stamped vaccine card in hand and big plans to celebrate the start of an immunized summer vacation: Coffee ice-cream, she said, her “absolute... Read more

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