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NorthEndWaterfront.com has the scoop and a copy of a Superior Court judge's denial of a request by the city's only Segway tour company for a preliminary injunction against a city ordinance restricting where his vehicles can go.
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A Suffolk County grand jury has indicted two lawyers on charges they sucked more than $1.4 million out of client accounts, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. One of them is also charged with making up fake clients in a class-action lawsuit against the owners of a Danvers chemical plant that blew up in 2006, the DA's office says.
Michael Germano, 49, of Wilmington,... Read more
NorthEndWaterfront.com posts a photo of the bee swarm that settled at Prince and Salem until a beekeeper arrived to take them away.
Earlier:
Swarming bees on a car in Dorchester.
NorthEndWaterfront.com watches the news about the overturned gasoline tanker in Arlington and reminds us why North Enders fought to restrict tanker traffic on their streets.
Boston woke up on Dec. 8, 1941 a changed, frightened and determined city. With war declared, Boston felt particularly vulnerable, given its position right on the coast. But Boston also rolled up its sleeves to help fend off the Axis. Scores of Leslie Jones photos... Read more
Our municipal cone crisis continues. A concerned citizen (ed. note: Please note I did not write "cone-cerned" again) reports somebody used steel wire to attach a traffic cone to a tree on Charter Street.
The city replies a worker removed the cone, but this earlier report suggests whoever tied the cone to the tree will do it again, since they've... Read more
At 9:50 a.m., CarCarli tweeted from her North End apartment:
Did anyone just feel an Earthquake? Home sick in bed & just felt that earthquakey JiffyPop shaking sensation.
The USGS reported a 4.4 earthquake north of Ottawa at 9:43 a.m. In addition to the North End, it shook upstate New York.
After getting confirmation of the quake, CarCarli added:
I'm a precision
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The North End/Waterfront Mothers Association says fight-happy homeless people in Christopher Columbus Park are becoming a menace to their children and that one answer is a six-foot-tall fence around the park's playground - locked every night from May through November.
In an e-mail to members, organizers say they reached their breaking point last month after a fatally injured man was pulled out of the... Read more
Southiegirl captured the scene on the Zakim this afternoon, when police stopped traffic as the Biden motorcade departed the memorial for MIT police officer Sean Collier.... Read more
A good Samaritan jumped into Boston Harbor near Long Wharf shortly after 11 this morning and helped keep somebody foundering in the water afloat until a State Police boat arrived and troopers pulled both out. Boston EMS treated the man at the scene and then transported him to Mass. General for further care, Boston Fire spokesman Steve MacDonald says.
But an annual "Pray for Boston" procession through the North End took on added meaning on Saturday.
Paul Revere hoofed it out of the North End this morning to warn the colonists the Redcoats were coming.
Afterwards, Minutemen stood at attention in front of the Paul Revere statue and Old North Church as Taps were played and a wreath laid at a... Read more
NorthEndWaterfront.com shows us that just because they don't often change the configuration of that geometric thing on the Greenway doesn't mean they can't.
NorthEndWaterfront.com holds its nose while showing us the sordid conditions on Cooper Street:
Early this morning, I observed a rat eating something and as I approached the rat, saw that he was eating a roasted chicken disposed of in front of 19 Cooper Street. I scared the rat away and went home and got some rubber gloves and put the chicken back in it's
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NorthEndWaterfront.com posts a photo of the traveling turkey on Lewis Wharf today.
Just out: "The Great Boston Molasses Flood" by the Dead Milkmen:
Sweet holy Jesus, there's a wall of molasses coming for me and my fam-i-lee.
Listen to the lyrics at the beginning, and you'll notice that whoever wrote them obviously read their Puleo.
H/t Liam Sullivan.... Read more
The Boston Business Journal reports the city is looking to buy the furniture store turned failed-presidential campaign headquarters at 585 Commercial St. for use as a K-8 school.
The possible purchase comes with the Eliot school bursting at the seams, Back Bay and Beacon Hill residents clamoring for a school of their own and downtown becoming an increasingly popular residential neighborhood.
Ed. note: Wouldn't... Read more
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