Update: Board decides neither incident was foreseeable so no violation for either bar.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about incidents at bars in the South End and East Boston in which patrons apparently looking for trouble found it. Read more.
People on several flights headed to Boston got a quick trip to other New England states yesterday afternoon when their flights were diverted from Logan - in one case where the wheels were already down and the plane was on its final approach. Read more.
A federal judge has sentenced a member of the Sinaloa cartel who set up housekeeping in East Boston to ten years after he pleaded guilty to distributing heroin and cocaine from Maverick Square to Hyde Park - sometimes with his wife and young children in tow. Read more.
Robert Alvarez was a bit perplexed by this wall at the Kelly's in Terminal B at Logan: "Congratulations to Revere on being annexed by Boston?"
Or maybe they're making a statement, that East Boston is really Boston's Revere Beach? But if so, maybe Sullivan's could start advertising itself as being from Revere's Castle Island?
The MBTA reports Blue Line delays of up to ten minutes as a maintenance crew inspects the seemingly always troublesome overhead wires.
Your money's no good on the Blue Line, at least through Aug. 31.
With the Sumner Tunnel now shut for the next two months, the Blue Line is now free, as Donna shows us at Orient Heights. Kind of makes you wonder if freeing the T might be a way for the state to reduce congestion and carbon emissions on Boston-area roads, although that would probably require a fully functional T system.
There's some outrage in Jeffries Point this morning, where a city-owned street-hockey rink that the Bruins helped pay to resurface at Porzio Park was overlaid with markings for a new pickleball court - some residents are mad, especially since some people went to play hockey last night and were told it's now a pickleball court.
Jack Jones, 25, was arraigned in East Boston court today on two counts of possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a loaded firearm and possession of a large-capacity feeding device, the Suffolk Count District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Swimmers get ready to take on the harbor. Photo by Patrick Quinn-Paquet.
Nearly 100 swimmers, accompanied by some 60 kayakers, did a 5K tour of Boston Harbor today to benefit the Navy SEALs Foundation which helps current, reserve and veteran SEALs, their families and support staff. Read more.
Mike Saccone has the photo and a statement from United on what happened around 7:30 p.m. on the tarmac
The Boston Licensing Board today unanimously approved a request from DaCoopas Pizza, 474 Saratoga St. to let its customers bring their own beer or wine with which to enjoy a pie or sub outdoors. Read more.
Matt Frank watched a jet depart Logan through nature's homage to the Golden Girls opening credits by way of haze from the continuing wildfires in western Canada.
The Boston Public Health Commission reports that some raw sewage got into the inner harbor early this morning through combined sewer outflow pipes in East Boston and the South End: Read more.
Rendering, showing some of the parking, by GCD Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to build a seven-unit residential building with 16 parking spaces on a large lot next to Constitution Beach in East Boston. Read more.
Some street chess during last year's JP Open Streets.
Mayor Wu today announced an expanded "Open Streets" program in which Newbury Street in the Back Bay will be closed to motor vehicles every Sunday between July 2 and Oct. 15 and five streets in other neighborhoods will be shut to cars and trucks for one-day celebrations. Read more.
A woman told she couldn't bring a bottle of beer with her at closing time at Barney's Grill, 299 Havre St. in East Boston, reacted by hurling the bottle at the bartender, hitting her in the chest, the bartender and police told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.
Omar and Brandon Melendez.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let an East Boston father and son buy the liquor license of the closed Jeveli's, 387 Chelsea St. in East Boston, to open a 218-seat restaurant dedicated to tapas based on cuisines from around the world. Read more.
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