Karyn Regal at WBZ Newsradio reports the company that runs the Chelsea Street Bridge has fired the two workers on duty when the bridge's center span rose with an occupied car on it on Friday.
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By adamg - 1/24/22 - 9:13 am
Live Boston reports a man was shot on Saratoga Street at Wordsworth Street in East Boston around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. The homicide squad was called in due to the severity of the vicitm's injuries.
By adamg - 1/23/22 - 1:58 pm
Randy Andrews posted video Friday showing how lucky one driver is that the Chelsea Street Bridge lifts its center section straight up, rather than having a more traditional design with two sections that lift up at an angle: Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/22 - 6:18 pm
Newly elected state Sen. Lydia Edwards announced today she will formally resign as a city councilor on April 30, which she says will give the city council enough time to call a special election to replace her without her East Boston, Charlestown and North End constituents losing representation on the council.
In a statement, she said: Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/22 - 12:11 pm
Update: She'll resign on April 30.
GBH reports the now dual councilor/senator doesn't want to talk about leaving her council seat. Maybe at some point, she says. There's no law that says she has to give up the job as councilor.
By adamg - 1/18/22 - 3:09 pm
Rendering of the larger building by J. Garland Enterprises.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by developers for two new residential buildings, with a total of 29 units, to replace what is now a flooring concern, along Curtis and Saratoga streets in East Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/22 - 11:33 am
The owners of the condos at 524 East Broadway, a four-story building near H Street in South Boston, today sued the Zoning Board of Appeal and the couple that owns the neighboring house, seeking to block construction of a four-story extension to the house next door, saying the board had some nerve approving a four-story addition that will harm them and set a precedent that will let owners of other smallish buildings over-densify the neighborhood. Read more.
By adamg - 1/11/22 - 9:00 pm
With no opposition, City Councilor Lydia Edwards today became State Sen. Elect Lydia Edwards in the special election to replace Joe Boncore. Once she formally submits her resignation as councilor, the City Councilor can set dates for a preliminary and final election to fill the remainder of her two-year council term.
By adamg - 1/7/22 - 8:55 pm
Tamas snapped Delta flight 259 this afternoon after it landed at Logan in the tail end of the snowstorm, following its flight from Amsterdam.
By adamg - 1/6/22 - 12:54 pm
Hacopian during Zoomed hearing yesterday.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for the operators of a Quincy restaurant to open an outlet on Border Street near Decatur Street that hopes to attract both East Boston residents and a growing community of Eastie restaurant workers who'd prefer to cap their nights near home rather than across the harbor. Read more.
By adamg - 1/1/22 - 2:53 pm
Patrick shows us the line at Terminal C for one of those $250 quickie pre-flight Covid-19 tests.
The line stretches out of view down the hall towards Terminal B.
By adamg - 12/27/21 - 9:30 am
An East Boston citizen who trawls 311 is fed up with whoever in the South End keeps filing 311 complaints about airplane noise, like multiple times a day: Read more.
By adamg - 12/25/21 - 1:45 pm
An alarmed citizen filed a 311 complaint about the herds of birds now congregating along Jeffries Street in East Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 12/16/21 - 9:59 pm
Sal LaMattina, who retired from the District 1 City Council seat that Lydia Edwards won in 2017, is talking to supporters about possibly running for the seat again after Edwards is elected to the State Senate next month. Read more.
By adamg - 12/16/21 - 4:57 pm
Victim identified as Diion Reid, 27, of East Boston.
Boston Police reports officers responding to a 911 call at 7 Shelby St., between Lexington and Princeton streets in East Boston, found a man shot to death in the vehicle, around 12:25 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 12/15/21 - 2:12 pm
Member Douglas Babcock (l) and proposed manager Brian George speak from the yacht club
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let members of the Jeffries Yacht Club in East Boston relax after a hard weekend sail with a cold bottle of beer or mixed drink. Read more.
By adamg - 12/14/21 - 8:47 pm
Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards has defeated Revere School Committee member Anthony D'Ambrosio in the Democratic primary to replace state Sen. Joe Boncore in the First Suffolk and Middlesex district (which includes East Boston). With no Republican candidate, that means she will soon move from the City Council to the State Senate. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/21 - 2:39 pm
CommonWealth Magazine surveys next Tuesday's special election to replace state Sen. Joe Boncore, which pits Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards against Revere School Committee Member Anthony D’Ambrosio. The district includes East Boston, the North End, Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Revere, Winthrop and a bit of Cambridge.
By adamg - 12/6/21 - 10:34 pm
Roving UHub photographer Michael Campbell watched one old tug getting dismantled at an East Boston pier, while the another awaited its fate. Behind them, the HC Melina was outbound, heading to Houston, likely loaded with scrap metal.
Campbell couldn't make out the name of the ship being munched, the name already part of the day's meal: Read more.
By adamg - 12/2/21 - 10:20 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request from Las Palmas Market, 13 Chelsea St., to add spirits to its existing beer and wine offerings. Read more.
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