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South Boston man arrested for armed robbery of a bank
From BPD News: At about 4:19 PM on Monday April 26, 2021, officers assigned to District A-1 (Downtown) responded to a call for a bank [...]
Sen. Nick Collins will NOT be running for Mayor of Boston
After many residents questioning, "Will he or won't he?" Senator Nick Collins - also a South Boston resident - announced on Tuesday morning that he [...]
Election Roundup: An introduction
Welcome to “It’s Election Season, Baby” a new feature on Caught in Southie! Why? Because, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, it’s election time. To kick [...]
Officers Arrest Fall River Man on Multiple Charges after he Physically Assaulted Restaurant Staff
On Thursday evening we tweeted about an incident taking place in the Seaport involving a fist fight at Ocean Prime. Well, there's the story via [...]
Councilors Flaherty & Flynn To Hold SB Waterfront Transit Plan Hearing Fri. Nov. 30th
BOSTON – Boston City Councilor At-Large Michael F. Flaherty and Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn will hold a hearing at [...]
Hang onto your hats! Developers not playing by the affordable housing rules.
Well, this is outrageous. The development that was built at 135 Athens Street/160 West Broadway was supposed to designated two [...]
Frontage Road Parcel: Is Midtown on the horizon?
Looks like there could be more development is on the horizon for the Frontage Road Parcel - a city owned [...]
Northern Avenue Bridge: What’s in store
The Northern Avenue Bridge was built in 1908 and is a piece of history currently sitting in the Fort Point [...]
Important City Council Hearings Coming Up This Week
Corporate Tax Transparency Thursday, November 29 @ 1:30pm Hearing to examine the benefits to taxpayers of tax breaks given to [...]
West Broadway Christmas Tree Redo
We realize that local, neighborhood trees will not look like the one at Rockerfeller Center, but can we at least [...]
Be informed. Get involved: Northern Avenue Bridge
Built in 1908, today’s Northern Avenue Bridge was in service for over a century, before it was closed in December 2014. The City of Boston [...]
More development: 400 West Broadway
Looks like a new development is coming to 400 West Broadway! A new plan has been filed with the BPDA to replace an existing three-story [...]
Senator Collins Advances Gas Workers Bill
Legislation to extend health care, restrict public funds for National Grid moves to Committee BOSTON- State Senator Nick Collins (D-Boston) recently presided over Senate Session, [...]
Take the Survey: Livable Streets
Livable Streets would like Southie residents to take their survey about what your priorities are for improving safety on South Boston streets. Kindly take a [...]
Shots fired in Southie, gun recovered.
On Saturday afternoon around 3pm BPD was called to the area off Moakley Park for reports of shots fired. A gun being fired was believed to [...]
Councilors Flaherty and Flynn release a statement about new smoke shop in Southie
After receiving numerous messages voicing concern about the new smoke shop opening up on East Broadway, City Councilors Michael Flaherty and Ed Flynn release a statement. [...]