For some reason, the driver of an 18-wheeler in Charlestown decided this afternoon it made sense to turn left from High Street onto School Street, even though it's a narrow, steep, one-way street - marked with a sign reading "NO TRUCKS OVER 2 1/2 TON CAP." He decided unwisely, which he realized when his truck quickly got wedged into the intersection, as a roving UHub photographer shows us. Read more.
Adam Castiglioni watched the USS Constitution leave its Charlestown dock for a harbor tour and 21-gun salute to honor people who cared for us and kept us safe during the pandemic.
Blueprint submitted with proposal.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a beehive at a community garden at 499 Main St. in Sullivan Square. Read more.
Delisle at hearing.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let former L'Espalier chiefs Matthew Dilisle and Peter McGough open a pasta-and-wine shop at 40 Main St. in Charlestown, where customers walking home from their jobs downtown could pick up some fresh pasta and pair it with what their attorney called "finer wines and more interesting beers." Read more.
The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge reports somebody involved with Resilient Remedies's bid for a cannabis shop in Charlestown included the Boston Cannabis Board on an e-mail exchange that centered on ways to keep Nike John's competing cannabis shop out of the Town, including making the argument that the Black woman from Dorchester isn't really minority enough to warrant the special "equity" treatment state law allows for applicants harmed by the war on drugs.
Distilling Sorgini and brewing Lohring.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant the "pouring" licenses an existing distillery on Terminal Street in Charlestown and a proposed brewery as part of the Speedway project in Brighton need to open their doors to the public. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 17 Allston St. in Charlestown around 11:25 p.m. on Sunday for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
The MBTA announced today that it'll be using some of that sweet federal stimmy to resume the Charlestown and Hingham ferries it had canceled in January because of Covid-19-related lack of demand, starting May 22. Read more.
Matt Frank captured a setting full moon over the Schrafft's Building in Sullivan Square this morning (and over downtown Boston; Frank gets around).
Gary Waldeck noticed a support for the new North Washington Street Bridge, looking like it's ready to be unpacked from the crate it came in.
Earlier:
Taking the temporary bridge out for a spin.
The end of the old Charlestown Bridge, once a key El link.
A blinded-by-the-light citizen files a 311 complaint about the new floodlights at the newish residential building at 330 Rutherford Ave.: Read more.
Over the last few days, concerned citizens have filed 311 complaints about fireworks at Castle Island in South Boston, Charlestown High (where they burned the turf) and the Bremen Street Park and the McKay School area in East Boston. Read more.
Richard Auffrey reports he had to make several visits to Arlington Avenue in Charlestown to try dishes at the Peruvian Taste Restaurant, because the food was just that good. They serve both traditional Peruvian food and chifa, a mix of Chinese and Peruvian cuisines.
Boston Police report the man shot to death on Mystic Place early Saturday was Jawad Muhammed, 33, of Mattapan.
Live Boston reports that when police responded to a Mystic Place home early this morning for what turned out to be a murder, it was the second time in less than four hours they had been called there. Read more.
Victim identified as Jawad Muhammed, 33, of Mattapan.
Boston Police report a man was shot inside 6 Mystic Pl. in Charlestown around 3:20 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Opposition continued last night to a proposed cannabis shop on Cambridge Street in Charlestown's Lost Village - the section of the Town cut off from the rest of the neighborhood by I-93. Read more.
The MBTA announced last week that it's just not going to run any trains at all between Oak Grove and Sullivan Square as it fixes the aging switch that caused yesterday's derailment at Wellington and does other track work there for the next three weeks. And it's pulling all of the new Chinese-by-way-of-Springfield trains on the Orange and Red Lines - like the one that came off the tracks as it tries to figure out what happened.
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