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By adamg - 11/7/21 - 8:56 pm
Bacon the pig

Turlach MacDonagh went to the Brookline Rotary's Dog Day at the Brookline Avenue Playground, where one of the hounds he met was Bacon the Pig. "Truly one magical animal," he reports.

By adamg - 11/7/21 - 7:55 am
Flier calling for end of daylight savings time

Tenar Arha spotted this protest flier in Coolidge Corner last night.

By adamg - 11/5/21 - 8:53 am

Reuters reports that Feuerstein, who became famous for continuing to pay his 1,400 workers after his Lawrence fleece factory burned down in 1995, died from complications related to a fall at his Brookline home last week.

By adamg - 10/27/21 - 1:34 pm
Nazi at Dean Road and Beacon Street

The aging Hitlerjugend member/Confederate cosplayer who was heiling people at Beacon Street and Dean road yesterday was back at it this afternoon after the worst of the wind and rain had passed.

Shamus Moynihan forwarded these photos from somebody who spotted him this afternoon, but apparently, he's been there for awhile: Read more.

By adamg - 10/26/21 - 10:13 am

Hugmajesty reports that this morning, a white supremacist was on Beacon Street at Dean Road harassing people - yelling "Heil Hitler" and making white-power symbols at people walking by.

She adds he was a skinny guy, maybe in his 30s, wearing a MAGA hat.

By adamg - 10/11/21 - 10:41 pm
Boston Marathon

Photography Natalia watched the first Boston Marathon since Patriots Day, 2019.

Also on hand, in Brookline, a giant chicken: Read more.

By adamg - 9/30/21 - 9:38 pm
Wanted for indecent assault and battery

Surveillance photos via Transit PD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man they say has sexually attacked women at least three times in recent months on the Orange and Green Lines. Read more.

By adamg - 9/23/21 - 10:41 am

The Boston Business Journal reports that four East Boston Bank branches slated to be shut as part of its takeover by Rockland Trust will instead be sold to HarborOne, a Brockton-based bank that will hire their workers and re-open the branches as its own. The deal affects only the buildings and workers; customer accounts at the current branches will still move to Rockland.

By adamg - 9/13/21 - 9:01 am

The Daily Free Press reports the robbers asked the student for the time, then, when he got out his phone to check, one grabbed his phone while the other pointed a gun at him, around 9:45 p.m. on Friday on Naples Road near Comm. Ave.

By adamg - 8/23/21 - 9:06 am

Transit Police report arresting a man they say was stood in front of a C Line trolley in Washington Square and refused to let it pass, around 5:15 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 8/22/21 - 6:32 pm
Tree with crutches

Turlach MacDonagh spotted a tree doctor's patient in Brookline, braced for whatever Henri might have brought.

By adamg - 8/17/21 - 11:07 pm

Mamaleh's Delicatessen, which has outlets in Cambridge and Brookline, is not at all happy that Gov. Baker is leaving it up to local towns - and individual businesses - to figure out whether to require indoor mask wearing at a time when Covid-19 cases are on the rise and increasingly angry people are taking out their aggression on restaurant workers. Read more.

By adamg - 8/4/21 - 3:09 pm

New England Folklore reviews the history of Brookline's Hall's Pond, next to Amory Playground, a block off Beacon Street near Audubon Circle, which kids once thought was bottomless - and which, they say, swallowed up a man, his buggy and his horse one night.

By adamg - 7/24/21 - 11:36 am

Some people spent their pandemic days on their laptops or baking bread. Laura Cashman spent her time photographing and videoing Boston's own mini-herd of cattle - Allandale Farm's Willard and Curtis - after which she'd return home and create paintings of them. Read more.

By adamg - 7/17/21 - 10:54 pm

The MBTA is reporting delays of up to 20 minutes on the C Line due to a dead trolley at Coolidge Corner.

By William Dawes 18 - 7/1/21 - 12:45 pm

Does anyone have any idea why the manhole covers on Chestnut Hill Ave between Dean Rd and Rte 9 are smoking? My mother wants to know, thanks.

By adamg - 7/1/21 - 1:08 am

Sutherlabs used slow-motion capture to grab a video of some of last night's lightning show, in Brookline, looking northwest: Read more.

By adamg - 6/15/21 - 10:57 pm

In a public notice about its impending merger with the parent company of the East Boston Savings Bank, Rockland Trust says it will close current East Boston branches in Allston, Brighton (two branches), Chinatown, Dorchester, Mission Hill, Roslindale, West Roxbury, Brookline and Cambridge (two branches), among others. Read more.

By adamg - 6/4/21 - 9:09 am

Melissa Sullivan spotted a deer running down Commonwealth Avenue in Allston this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/21 - 11:58 am

A man who offered physical therapy in the Boston area starting in 2009 proceeded to submit bogus claims to health insurers the same way he had previously defrauded insurers in other states, which led to him losing his license in Colorado, New York, Washington, DC and California, according to an indictment unsealed today in US District Court in Boston. Read more.

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