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On the harbor, concern for people who live on boats

Alice C.Ahoy! Anybody home?

The Boston Police harbor unit plans special checks of the boats in which several dozen people may be living to make sure they're prepared for Sandy.

Police say fulltime harbor denizens are concentrated in marinas in Charlestown and East Boston. Yesterday afternoon, during a patrol with several members of the local media, a BPD boat pulled aside the Alice C., moored off Rowes Wharf, whose owner is one of the harbor's veteran residents. They hailed him twice. Nobody answered back, though, so they moved on.

Police urged people with sailboats moored in the harbor to make sure everything is battened down and mooring lines in good shape. One person who won't have to worry is John Henry - his behemoth yacht Iroquois is no longer berthed at Rowes Wharf - presumably it's sailed to safer (and no doubt warmer) waters.

Making sure things are secure.Making sure things are secure.

He covers the waterfront in BPD patrol boat.He covers the waterfront in BPD patrol boat.


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Emergency, emergency, everybody to get from street!

Gov. Patrick declared a state of emergency in advance of Sandy's arrival sometime tomorrow. If something can be tied down, tie it down or bring it inside - including Halloween decorations. Stock up on emergency supplies and first-aid stuff, get cash (in case ATMs go down) and brace and hunker down like nobody's business.

In Boston, police Supt. William Evans urged everybody to stay home and stay off the roads once the storm hits, both so drivers stay safe and so they keep from blocking police, fire and EMT crews racing to emergencies through roads that could already be blocked by downed wires and trees.


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When storms collide

Sandy and the front

This photo, taken around 11:15 a.m. by a GOES satellite, shows Sandy and the front with which it's about to collide, creating a SuperhumongousFrankenstorm. The National Hurricane Center reports that after weakening yesterday, Sandy regained its hurricane status overnight and that the storm approaching from the front will only make it stronger before it slams into the continent somewhere in the area of New Jersey.

UPDATE: Looks like the storms have started to merge. Photo taken around 5:15 p.m.:

5:15 p.m.


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Plan would give low-income students priority for good Boston schools

A BPS advisory committee is now considering a plan in which low-income students would get a better shot at elementary schools selected by their parents as a way to deal with the fact that too many Boston schools don't measure up, the Globe reports.

As with every other attempt to rejigger the current three assignment zones, officials are finding their latest proposals wind up with zones in which parents just would have no or little choice of schools that do well on standardized tests.


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Five-alarm fire ravages Allston home; woman jumps from third floor, lands on firefighter

Quint Avenue fire. Photo by BFD.Quint Avenue fire. Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a woman jumped from the third floor of 62-64 Quint Ave. this morning to escape the flames tearing through the house. She was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Four other residents were also injured, less severely. In addition to the firefighter the woman landed on, four firefighters were treated for injuries.

The department says the house was a total loss, estimated damage at $650,000. The cause is still under investigation.

The Red Cross reports 11 people - each of whom rented a room in the house - are now without a home.

Sat, 10/27/2012 - 06:17


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South Boston pizza-delivery guy held up at gunpoint - but not late at night

Boston Police report a delivery guy making a delivery to Linksy Barry Court around 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 20 was held up at gunpoint.

Police say the victim put up a fight, but lost, and the suspect, described as a black man, about 23 and 5'9" with a thin build and a beard, made off with $400.

Sat, 10/20/2012 - 18:30
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Manhunt in Arboretum after guy tries to hold up off-duty cop

Boston Police, state troopers and the State Police helicopter flooded the Arnold Arboretum tonight after somebody tried to hold up an off-duty cop around 9:00 p.m. at South and Bussey streets, Stanley Staco reports. After 45 minutes of intense searching, however, police called off the search without a suspect in custody.

Fri, 10/26/2012 - 21:00
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Torontonian jealous of what we have

Sportswriter visits the Hub, feels inadequate - even as losers, our teams are better than his teams, he writes, adding:

Boston is the best because it has made rooting for a team its noblest civic duty. You get out on the highway and you suffer. You get into the stadium and you may suffer some more. But your suffering has meaning. It's an act of contrition. It's - and you don’t go too crazy on this word - a sort of worship.

They do it better than us. No one who's ever compared experiences can seriously argue that.

H/t Stephanie.


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Roslindale man who had his bail on drug charges Dookhanated arrested on new drug charges

CamiloEnrique Camilo, 38, of Roslindale, was ordered held on $100,000 bail today on charges he was the owner of a pound of cocaine police say they found in his Claron Street home.

Camilo was already out on bail in a drug case out of Norfolk County when he had his bail changed to personal recognizance because it turned out the chemist in that case was Annie Dookhan, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding it had asked for $1 million bail.

Camilo had been arrested in Weymouth on drug-trafficking charges in 2010.

The DA's office reports he was arrested yesterday at Logan Airport on his way back from a trip to the Dominican Republic.

Innocent, etc.


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Dead men tell no tales, but court rules embalmers can

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a state board was wrong to bar an embalmer from working in Massachusetts because he agreed to an interview with the Boston Phoenix.

In a ruling today, the state's highest court said the Board of Registration of Funeral Directors and Embalmers simply went too far in banishing Troy Schoeller for allegedly speaking in "an undignified and salacious manner about the condition of dead bodies."

In an interview with the Phoenix, Schoeller discussed his dislike for working on the bodies of overweight people and for comparing the body of a dead infant to a "bearskin rug."

The court noted that Schoeller did not reveal names or other information about specific individuals and said:

Although Schoeller spoke colloquially, using both graphic and crude terms in his descriptions of the challenges he faced as an embalmer, his comments convey that he took apparent pride in his skills.

And the board cannot violate people's First Amendment rights "by relying on a generalized notion of the integrity of the funeral services profession," the court concluded.


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