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By adamg - 2/5/24 - 1:02 pm
Long line of yellow shuttle buses

SteveBikes yells: Happy Red Line shutdown day from Davis, because, of course, today is the first of ten days of all-day non-stop non-subway action between Alewife and Harvard, with the non-service extended to Park after 8:45 p.m., so the T can do one of those speed-run repair marathons. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 10:50 am

The Newton Beacon reports Newton has hired a graphic designer - himself Native American - to come up with a city seal that does not show John Eliot proselytizing the locals. You may recall that a state task force spent three years trying to develop a new state seal before just giving up.

Ed. note: Yes, the name in the byline will sound familiar. Kidlet's got some writing chops.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 10:11 am

Alexander Giannakakis, whose Nazi brother was the main suspect in a string of arson fires aimed at Jews in 2019, but who died before he could be arrested, has been returned from Sweden to face charges he tried to hide evidence of his brother's crimes and involvement in other local white-supremacist efforts, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:23 am
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee.  The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement

Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 5:30 pm
Sunset over Boston Common and Charles River

Tony Ursillo watched the sun go down over the Common and the Charles River this evening.

Further upstream, in the ever aptly named Watertown, Pat Miguel Tomaino watched a nice sunset over the Charles as well: Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 1:46 pm

A personal care assistant for a 95-year-old woman in Dorchester faces charges that she withdrew $120,000 from her client's bank account, stole $30,000 in rent payments from a tenant in the woman's house and then forced the house into foreclosure, by taking out a reverse mortgage on it, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 1:18 pm
Two sculptures of racing animals at sunrise at Revere Beach

Matt Frank took in yesterday's Winter Wonderland at Revere Beach, then went back this morning to cool shots of the ice sculptures as the sun rose.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 1:11 pm

Jason Pramas explains why he's shutting down Somerville Wire (in part because he's now working on a statewide news source), but says Somerville is no longer in danger of becoming the news desert he once thought, because the city now has a growing list of news sources, including Cambridge Day and even a newspaper from across the river, which has a "Camberville" newsletter.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 12:58 pm

WBUR reports the role Futura Productions in Roslindale Square (at the top of the building where Distraction Brewing is) played in the production of A Gentleman of Istanbul, which is up for a Grammy tonight for best engineered classical album. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/24 - 1:03 pm
Rendering of proposed new Faneuil Gardens development

Rendering by J. Garland Enterprises/Moody Noland/MVRDV.

The Community Builders has filed plans with the BPDA to replace the 1940s barracks-like apartment buildings at Faneuil Gardens, off Faneuil and North Beacon streets, with five taller buildings that would have apartments for current residents and 183 apartments for new tenants - as well as a new community center and a tree-lined pedestrian "boulevard." Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/24 - 11:58 am

HorizonMass updates us on the new system, which will let you buy passage with your phone but which has some possible issues.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 9:35 pm

Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller announced the School Committee and the Newton Teachers Association reached a tentative deal tonight and that schools will re-open on Monday.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 5:31 pm
Washington Pearson

Pearson to be sent away again.

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Washington Pearson, 56, of Lynn, with a criminal record that dates to 1987, on charges he broke into a home on the Arborway in 2022, strangled one of the women living there into unconsciousness, sexually attacked her, strangled her again and then made off with her phone and jewelry, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 4:11 pm

The Harvard Book Store announced today it just couldn't make the numbers work and has called off plans to open a second shop across the river at the Prudential Center: Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 3:50 pm

A Dorchester man was arraigned this morning on charges he sent an overnight supervisor for the Boston Transportation Department to the hospital by punching and kicking him at Georgia and Hartwell streets in Grove Hall in Roxbury around 1:20 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 2:43 pm

A North Carolina man who was staying with his girlfriend at the InterContinental Boston last November faces charges of assault and battery on a family member after his arrest at their room, where police were called because of a loud argument and found his girlfriend with "multiple bruises" on her chest, back and arms - standing near a bed with what appeared to be blood stains. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 11:29 am

On the Channel considers and reviews the Summer Street Steps and wonders how, with all the billions of public and private dollars poured onto the blank slate that used to be the Seaport, that's what we wound up with - complete with loudspeakers pumping out pop music like some mall in the 1990s. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 10:09 am

Jamaica Plain News reports the death of Ron Hafer, who, in addition to helping lead the fight against the Southwest Expressway, founded Urban Edge and participated in the March to Selma.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 9:59 am

A Watch City inventor yesterday sued Apple, Inc., alleging a clasp it uses on some of its Apple Watch watch bands violates a patent he won in 2017 for using a combination of mechanical and magnetic parts to keep two things connected, for example, watch wrist bands. Read more.