Just like cash, only lighter! Boston is now selling value cards you can use to "feed" meters instead of coins. The city says they're good at meters across town - but not the multi-space ones or the ones that take credit cards - and if you act now, there's a "holiday sale" on the cards. One caveat: Although you can buy them online, you can only recharge their value at City Hall or the ever convenient city tow lot on Frontage Road.
Unemployed construction workers, other union members and Occupy Boston plan a march around 4:30 from Dewey Square to the decaying Charlestown Bridge today to press for repairs, as part of a day of Jobs Not Cuts protests at decrepit bridges across the country.
The last time Occupy Boston tried to march on the bridge, Boston Police shut the span down rather than let them on.
How else to explain the scene a roving UHub photographer came upon outside Supreme Liquors in Dorchester's Adams Corner the other night?
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated a man's conviction of cruelty to animals for squashing a mother duck leading her ducklings across a mall parking lot in Dartmouth in June, 2009.
A jury found Joshua Linares guilty, but the judge then entered a finding of not guilty, arguing that even if Linares had accelerated right into the duck, the duck had stepped under the car, that the duck was "a wild animal" and that the "defendant was under no obligation to stop, even if he knew he hit the duck."
Bumpa stickahs
Charles McEnerney spotted this car in Coolidge Corner today.
Witnesses on the upper deck of the Tobin Bridge watched a man get out of his vehicle and jump around 5:30 p.m., according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
The State Police Underwater Recovery Unit recovered his body in the water about 30 minutes later, the DA's office says, adding investigators are now working to identify him.
His death comes about 2 1/2 weeks after another man was talked out of jumping after causing a ten-mile inbound backup.
But not because it was held up with rusty paper clips but because a car on the top level of a car carrier knocked into a bunch of light fixtures, the Globe reports. And isn't it nice to see that Big Dig designers paid homage to Storrow Drive by designing a tunnel with height restrictions?
Wicked Local Randolph reports Randolph police chased two stolen cars from a Randolph apartment complex into Boston early this morning: One chase ended with a crash off the Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester, the other ended when the thief managed to lose the cops in the O'Neill Tunnel.
A roving UHub photographer was surprised this morning to see a Rolls in the Mul's and Amrheins parking lot in South Boston.
Mark Garfinkel photographs the day's most bizarre traffic accident, early this morning at Marginal and Washington streets.
Cissy Huang tries the haggis at the Haven in Jamaica Plain:
Maybe it was the beer or maybe it was the learning curve, but I found myself gaining appreciation for this dark hash and its iron flavor. However, I don’t think it’s something that I would care to eat again.
Mass. judges just love giving alleged drunks a second chance - especially in Suffolk County - the Globe reports.
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports that Mint, the New York-based car-rental service (as opposed to Mint, the personal-finance service or Mint, the coin-making service), has put some rental cars in the North End, to go along with its cars in downtown and Back Bay locations.
The Swellesley Report talks to one of Wellesley's first Volt owners, who uses the recharger installed at the town Whole Foods.
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