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Brighton hit-run victim moved to rehab hospital

The Daily Free Press updates us on the condition of Brenda Wynne, the Stingray Body Art co-owner seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver on Comm. Ave. in Brighton on Oct. 31. Benefits being planned for her in January at the Brighton Music Hall and she hopes to be out of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to attend. Still no sign of the coward who hit her, though.


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Woman burned in Charlestown fire

The Boston Fire Department reports a woman suffered burns from a two-alarm fire that broke out shortly before 1 p.m. at 7 Phipps St.

The first-floor fire did an estimated $75,000 in damage, the department says, adding one firefighter suffered cuts and that the cause and exact origin are still under investigation.

Wed, 11/07/2012 - 12:56


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First snow

First snow of the season in Boston

Greg Hum photographed Boston in the snow - you know, the snow they told us we wouldn't get.


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Police report two evening attacks on teen girls in lower Roxbury

Boston Police report a 17-year-old walking on Camden Street around 6:45 p.m. on Monday was grabbed around the neck on Monday by a guy who first chatted her up.

Tue, 11/06/2012 - 19:25
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MBTA finally gets new commuter-rail coaches, but watches its bond rating drop

New bi-level coaches from Korean manufacturer

Way late, but the T today took delivery of four new two-level commuter-rail coaches from Hyundai-Rotem at its Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville. According to a report by acting General Manager Jonathan Davis:

The coaches will be inspected today and over the next few months will undergo static and dynamic testing. Training of maintenance and operations personnel will officially kick off in early December. It is also important to note that members of the Vehicle Engineering department will be traveling to Korea on Saturday to meet with Hyundai Rotem's engineering and production staff to finalize design and confirm production compliance.

The company has an order for 75 of the new cars; the T now expects them to all be delivered by mid-2014, or about two years late. The T wants the cars to add capacity to commuter rail by replacing single-level coaches.

Meanwhile, the Boston Business Journal reports that Moody's today downgraded its rating a bit on $3.8 billion in T bonds because of "the transit system's sluggish operating performance and reliance on state sales tax revenue that has been stagnant for the better part of a decade."


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Steam cleaning

Steam cleaning

Congress Street by the Haymarket T stop remained shut this morning (as did the Holocaust Memorial) as respirator-wearing workers repaired a burst steam pipe that gave way last night, sending a steady stream of steam - and, it turns out, asbestos - into the chill night air.

Boston Public Health Commission spokeswoman Katinka Podmaniczky writes:

We do not believe there is any risk to public health from last night's steam-pipe rupture. Our Office of Environmental Health joined the state Department of Environmental Protection and others in taking airborne asbestos fiber samples, and we did not detect any airborne asbestos in our sampling. The street was fully clean of all asbestos debris. Risk from asbestos comes from prolonged exposure to air-borne particles over a number of years. In this situation, asbestos would have mixed with the steam, fallen to the ground, and been cleaned up.


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Letting off some steam on Election Night

Steam

Alex Mellion captured the scene at Congress and Hanover streets around 10:30 p.m., when a steam main burst, sending steam into the air and shutting the Haymarket T stop - which was re-opened in time for this morning's commute.

WBZ reports the explosion sent asbestos into the air and left Congress Street shut down.

Somebody who works in a building near the intersection reports the pipe had been leaking steam for a week.


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Suddenly, owls are everywhere

Somerville owl

Or maybe we're just noticing these stealthier predators after years of paying attention to their flashier, daytimier cousins, the hawks. The above is not some impressionist painting of what an owl might look like, but an impressionist-like photo of an owl in a tree near Sullivan Square in Somerville on Saturday night, taken by Bill Ritchotte. "Hedwig?" he asks.

Then there's this owl in the Fens.

Earlier:
An owl in the Park Street T stop and one in East Boston.


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Aw, poor Holly Robichaud

Yeah, losing hurts and sometimes all you can do is lash out at the people around you. Adults can make a learning experience of it, though, Holly.


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Garrison takes lead over Owens

Althea Garrison handily lost tonight to embattled state Rep. Carlos Henriquez, which means she retains her lead for most consecutive elections without a win over Roy Owens, who sat this election out.


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