South Boston
Citizen complaint of the day: What does Boston Water and Sewer have against concrete?
By adamg - 2/1/12 - 1:35 pm
UPDATE: See the comments for why this is all really the DPW's fault, well, except for the part about doing a half-assed job at leveling off the asphalt to begin with.
Of course, you have to doff your hat to the dedicated men and women of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, who tirelessly toil in the muck and mire 24 hours a day to keep our water and sewage flowing. But why can't they ever put sidewalks back the way they found them? We had a misshapen lump of asphalt instead of a concrete square in front of our house for several years - and when it was finally replaced, it was thanks to the DPW, which was overhauling all the sidewalks on the street.
The photo above comes from W. 5th Street in South Boston, where a resident complains and pleads:
The city dug up this fire hydrant a few months ago and did a terrible job repatching the surrounding sidewalk. I've seen too many women with strollers resort to walking in the road to avoid the hole. Please patch so surface is at least level
Over on Mansfield Street in Allston, another resident posts another photo of a lumpy blob of asphalt where a piece of concrete should be.
Herald says to remember it to Wingo Square
By adamg - 1/28/12 - 12:31 pmThe early bird catches the 9 bus
By adamg - 1/26/12 - 4:00 pmKarin posts an ode to her early commute today.
DA: Man charged as drug dealer after accepting delivery of raw opium from cop posing as delivery man
By adamg - 1/25/12 - 8:27 amMatthew Berkowitz of South Boston is scheduled for arraignment today in South Boston District Court on a charge of trafficking in a Class B substance, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:
Boston Police posed as delivery agents after receiving information that the package contained a large amount of raw opium poppy and had been sent from overseas.
The Herald reports the package contained some four pounds of the stuff and that Berkowitz is son of local seafood magnate Roger Berkowitz.
Innocent, etc.
Not everybody along the South Boston waterfront thrilled with this Innovation District thing
By adamg - 1/21/12 - 8:58 pmFort Point Blog provides the proof.
Court says it's past time for government to pay up for letting Whitey Bulger get away with murder
By adamg - 1/20/12 - 10:27 pmA federal appeals court today ordered the government to pay nearly $3 million to the families of three people murdered by Whitey Bulger when he was under FBI protection.
In two rulings issued today, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston said enough was enough, Bulger and pal Stephen Flemmi were able to kill people because they knew the government wouldn't touch him and that the government should pay for its role in the murders of Louis Litif, Debra Davis and Deborah Hussey.
Our own Bermuda Triangle
By adamg - 1/18/12 - 8:21 amA.P. Blake noticed the ghostly outline of a sunken ship in a Google satellite image of the tiny part of the Reserve Channel that lies past Summer Street, away from the cruise-ship terminal. Dave Barboza found two more.
Shocking: Man who showed up at hospital with severe burns may be guy who tried to steal cable at old power plant
By adamg - 1/16/12 - 11:16 amBoston Police report a man currently in critical condition at Mass. General with burns may be the person who cut a heavy-gauge copper cable at the old South Boston power plant last night, causing smoldering that brought the Fire Department to investigate.
Police say the man, not yet charged and so not named, showed up at Boston Medical Center not long after fire alarms began going off at the power plant on Summer and 1st streets. He was later transferred to the Mass. General burn unit, police say.
Police say officers recovered "an electrical saw, what appeared to be a canvass bag, used cigarettes, and a cell phone" at the power plant, where firefighters encountered smoke on the second and third floors - and a cut power cable. However, police say they have yet to enter the giant building to look for more evidence on the advice of fire officials, because of potentially hazardous fumes. The building is mostly windowless.
Copper thieves learn there are still live wires in the old South Boston power plant
By adamg - 1/15/12 - 10:13 pmUPDATE: Man in hospital with serious burns is a possible suspect.
Firefighters and police responded to the South Boston power plant at Summer and 1st streets tonight, where some copper thieves managed to chop out some heavy-gauge wiring, causing smoldering that set off the plant's fire alarms. No sign of the pilferers, of course.
Eddie Osborne, come out, come out wherever you are
By adamg - 1/12/12 - 1:07 pm
Boston Police report they are looking for Osborne, 27, for yesterday's near fatal shooting of a man inside the Rotary Variety Store in South Boston.
Osborne, a South Boston resident, is 5'10" and weighs about 160 lbs.
If you know where he is, contact C-6 detectives at 617-343-4742 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463)
