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By adamg - 10/13/22 - 10:13 am
Ladybugs_Leaf spotted these flags placed along the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge today and wondered what they're for.
Adam Balsam posits they're memorials for the bike-lane-marking traffic cones that somebody tossed off the bridge in January.
By adamg - 10/11/22 - 1:41 pm
Greg Cook took in the annual Honk procession from Somerville to Cambridge over the weekend.
So did Frank Solensky: Read more.
By adamg - 10/8/22 - 1:34 pm
Robber waits for more money from teller. Surveillance photo via FBI.
A Jamaica Plain man was indicted this week on charges he held up a TD Bank branch on May 2 while wearing a blue Brooklyn Dodgers cap - less than a week after another man, wearing a similar blue Red Sox cap held up the same bank and the same teller. Read more.
By adamg - 10/7/22 - 1:04 pm
Cambridge Police report a boneheaded robbery at Wusong Road:
A manager of a restaurant located in Harvard Square called to report that someone stole the arm to their skeleton that they had for decoration in front of their establishment.
The thief made good his escapula, but police say a surveillance camera snapped photos.
By adamg - 10/3/22 - 9:41 am
Cambridge Police report finding a man with gunshot injuries on School Street early this morning, although based on where they found shell casings, he might have been shot about a half mile away on Massachusetts Avenue.
Police report receiving calls about gunshots around 1:30 a.m. and found three spent shells near 731 Massachusetts ve.. The victim, 34, found on School street, was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 9/24/22 - 10:49 pm
The Crimson reports the university at some point will ask the BPDA for permission to build a new home for the theater - and new housing for grad students - at 175 North Harvard St in Allston, next to Harvard Stadium.
By adamg - 9/23/22 - 9:28 am
The Crimson reports on problems electing a student government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
By hrose - 9/19/22 - 8:50 am
Has anybody else noticed that there is a noticeable slowdown on the Red Line going northbound between Central and Harvard? It started at some point last week.
By adamg - 9/18/22 - 12:55 pm
Roving UHub photographer Melissa Hirshson spotted this bird seeking a chance to speak about her Lord and Savior, or maybe to ask to see an electric bill or even to seek a donation for GBH, at the main entrance to the rectory of Christ Church in Harvard Square this morning (bonus: Note the boot scraper on the step).
By adamg - 9/17/22 - 8:54 pm
Myron Freeman walked along the Cambridge side of the Charles the other night.
Copyright Myron Freeman. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 9/15/22 - 9:06 am
Eggs over easy on Memorial Drive this morning
Duke Nukem for a Limited Time Only got a great view of the results of an 18-wheeler driver trying to get to the Trader Joe's on Memorial Drive this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/22 - 9:34 pm
Cambridge Police report arresting a Boston man on attempted-murder charges for a burst of gunfire in the Port neighborhood Sunday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 9/11/22 - 2:07 pm
Cambridge Police report finding "multiple shell casings after gunfire was reported at Market and Bristol streets around 1 p.m. Nobody hit, no arrests, police are maintaining "an active presence" in the area.
By adamg - 9/9/22 - 9:16 pm
Quentin watched the sun go down from the Mass. Ave. Bridge.
Matt Frank watched the moon come up between the supports of the pedestrian bridge at Revere Beach: Read more.
By adamg - 9/8/22 - 9:37 pm
Chris Devers went to see the developing scene outside the British consulate at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square this afternoon - only to find some people eating at the cafe there and a number of Boston news photographers waiting around to see if someone, anyone, would show up to pay their respects.
By adamg - 9/1/22 - 10:59 am
MIT News reports an MIT-designed device, known as the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, has been generating oxygen on Mars since April, 2021, about two months after it landed there with the Perseverance rover.
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