Boom, boom, boom
By adamg - 6/17/13 - 1:45 pmThe National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Boston area through 9 p.m. - and a flood warning for Norfolk and Middlesex counties.
THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS
ALSO EXPECTED WITH ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. IN ADDITION...BRIEF
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY RESULT IN SOME LOCALIZED POOR DRAINAGE STREET
FLOODING.
All Bulger, all the time
By adamg - 6/17/13 - 12:57 pmJonathan Berk has set up a Twitter feed to re-post all the tweets from reporters at the trial.
New front opens in Cambridge leaflet war
By adamg - 6/17/13 - 10:48 amA Cambridge woman already battling the city in court over leaflets she puts on car windshields to advertise movies now faces another opponent: A man who goes around removing her leaflets and throwing them in his recycling.
In April, Paula Soto sued the city on charges it was infringing her First Amendment rights by threatening to fine her for the leaflets she puts on hundreds of car windshields each month to advertise the documentaries she screens in the community room of her apartment building.
Ty Cornwall, who lives in Area 4, says he's fed up with seeing her flyers all over the ground and has set up a Web site to chronicle his efforts to make her stop:
Rats in hallways, no headmaster and no textbooks in some classes
By adamg - 6/17/13 - 8:15 amMadison Park, the city's only vocational high school, hasn't gotten the improvements the mayor and the school superintendent promised, the Globe reports.
311? What's that?
By adamg - 6/17/13 - 7:35 amThe Globe today has a slideshow of Top 20 caller complaints to Boston 311 in 2012.
Boston, of course, has the Mayor's Hotline and Citizens Connect, but it famously doesn't have a simple 3-digit number for residents.
Police arrest suspect in Mission Hill attacks
By adamg - 6/17/13 - 12:41 amBoston Police tweet they've arrested Patrick Barry, 21, for one of the two sexual assaults and stabbings on Mission Hill over the weekend.
Barry, a Northeastern student, will be arraigned in Roxbury District Court this morning on charges of assault with intent to rape, police say.
Barry was arrested on Huntington Avenue around midnight. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports Barry lives at 878 Huntington Ave., a block away from the second of Sunday's attacks, at Huntington and Parker Hill Street.
Shootings raise concerns in Hyde Park
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 10:44 pmAround 6 p.m. on June 7, a 23-year-old Hyde Park man was sitting in Los Magicos Barber Shop, 79 Fairmount Ave., when he was shot. According to a police report:
A black male, approximately [in his] 20s reached his arm inside the barber-shop door and fired a shot.
The victim was shot in the leg. Three days later, a detective recovered a spent .22-caliber copper-coated hollow-point bullet from inside the seating area of a chair.
The barbershop is in a stretch of Fairmount Avenue that local officials have been trying for years to upgrade - the shop is next door to the Fairmount Grill, which recently opened where Townsends used to be.
On the other side of the neighborhood, on Wood Avenue, a shooting late Saturday has raised fears that the area is seeing the end of relative calm now that several members of the Wood Avenue Eagles gang are getting released from prison.
Police have not announced arrests in either case.
Oh, ho: Why Marlborough Street reverses direction the block before the Public Garden
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 9:15 pmMike the Mad Biologist explains it was an attempt to cut into the business of the streetwalkers who used to ply their wares at the corner of Marlborough and Arlington in the 1970s:
People would hop off Storrow Drive and drive around the block, find, erm, a 'friend', and drive off. Not exactly the kind of tourism the city was hoping for, so the traffic pattern was changed. Hard to believe today, since the penthouse of Zero Marlborough (the corner of Arlington and Marlborough) recently went for $8.8 million.
He actually wrote that as an aside in a post about the new traffic lights that are going in at that intersection, which means the former red-light district is, finally, going to get some red lights.
Two-alarm fire tears through Dorchester house
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 6:42 pm
Fighting the fire on Hancock Street. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire that broke out around 5 p.m. at 271 Hancock St. did an estimated $350,000 in damage. The cause of the fire, which broke through the roof, is under investigation.
In their wedding finest at Trinity Church
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 3:15 pmA Nigerian couple got married at Trinty Church in Copley Square yesterday. Charlie Rosenberg photographed some of the attendees.
Citizen complaint of the day: Don't make my daughter grow up thinking her daddy's a liar
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 3:03 pmOn Father's Day, a disgruntled citizen complains about a broken streetlight on Melnea Cass Boulevard:
My daughter was very excited when our broken light was fixed. On our Father's Day walk we went to see the repairs. As you can see, nothing has been done. Please restore my 4 year old's faith in city government and her trust in her daddy.
Jerk on an ATV ruins Hyde Park ball field
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 11:59 amThis morning, Scott Isaacs got to Kelly Field on Turtle Pond Parkway to find some jerk on an ATV destroyed the field overnight.
Boston Strolls adds:
Probably same jerks tearing up the Stony Brook trails for a year. Sent photos of them to MassDCR, but no result.
First in war, first in peace, first in the NHL East
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 11:29 amBoston Strolls strolled through the Public Garden today. At the opposite end of the Public Garden, the Bruins have some smaller fans as well.
Education issue pushes one voter to Consalvo
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 9:07 amGoogiebaba had planned to try to interview everybody running for mayor this year, but after watching the debate on education the other day, she decided to vote for City Councilor Rob Consalvo because he's one of three candidate opposed to lifting the cap on charter-school seats and the one she thinks has the best shot of winning.
It has become clear to me in the last few weeks that corporate education reformers have Boston in their crosshairs. They are locked and loaded and ready to orchestrate a take over of the Boston Public School System. ...
I wanted someone who would resist handing the keys to BPS over to Walmart AND I wanted someone who could win. I am eager to join a campaign and show the corporate education reformers that you can’t just waltzed into Boston and take over our schools.
Good news for parents: Fireworks to start, end an hour earlier this year
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 8:51 amThe Globe reports the good news.
Oh, yeah, the Globe also reports this is all because of evil New Yorkers trying to squash our poor little fireworks display, but, hey, even evil New Yorkers aren't all bad.
Wanted for Mission Hill attacks: This guy
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 12:56 amBoston Police have released photos from surveillance cameras of a man they say they want to talk to about the two women who were sexually assaulted and stabbed on Mission Hill early Sunday morning.
Man shot repeatedly in Dorchester
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 12:13 amStanley Staco reports the man was taken away in bad shape from Dorchester Avenue and Kimball Street around 11:50 p.m. The homicide unit was summoned, just in case.
Man shot in stomach in Hyde Park
By adamg - 6/16/13 - 12:08 amAround 11:15 p.m. on Saturday at 321 Wood Ave., just off River, Stanley Staco reports.
Boston Police report the man is in critical but stable condition at Boston Medical Center - and that a second person was injured by shattered glass.
What did they do at Arlington Heights?
By adamg - 6/15/13 - 5:39 pmSpatch is annoyed at the way the T let a store owner ruin the mural at the Arlington Heights bus station:
The MBTA has seen fit to cut out parts of the mural for a convenience store. Why they didn't bother to use one of the three remaining unpainted walls is beyond me.
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