The front wheels of a Red Line car came off the rails in a mishap yesterday at the MBTA's Cabot Yard in South Boston.
According to an initial internal account, a driver was moving four cars: Read more.
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By adamg - 6/17/22 - 11:35 am
Upset citizens from Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston filed 311 complaints this morning about ticketing and towing for street cleaning even though they got e-mail from the city street-sweeping list that there wouldn't be any towing on Bunker Hill Day. Read more.
By adamg - 6/16/22 - 1:06 pm
Lessons not learned? From an earlier generation.
Caught in Southie reports the imminent demise of JOKR, the grocery-delivery service out of South Boston.
By adamg - 6/9/22 - 2:56 pm
WBUR reports a worker died in a construction incident at 65 Northern Ave. in the Seaport around 6:30 this morning.
The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health reports the man died during "the unloading of street curbing material when the heavy blocks became loose and crushed him."
By adamg - 6/9/22 - 10:08 am
Plutor spotted the aftermath of a collision on East Broadway at O Street around 8 a.m.
By adamg - 6/9/22 - 9:31 am
Aline Kaplan revisits a 1953 fire onboard a docked ship, named the Black Falcon, that killed several longshoremen, which might not have happened had more than 100 drums of sodium peroxide been stowed properly in Antwerp.
By adamg - 6/8/22 - 12:36 pm
And there we stopped, unable to come up with a family-friend limerick to report on a Nantucket food/liquor outlet planning an outlet on Old Colony Avenue in South Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 6/7/22 - 11:57 am
Caught in Southie reports state Sen. Nick Collins is vowing to fight a proposal by the MBTA to end 11 service at Broadway, which would force people who now use it to get to Tufts Medical Center and nearby areas to take a bus and two subway lines to get to work, and to double the length of the 7 route.
By adamg - 6/6/22 - 2:47 pm
Handmaid had a great view on Fan Pier this morning of two fireboats, one an active BFD vessel, the other a retired 1940s fireboat seen above, shooting water high into the air, as part of a "water cannon display" for the National Fire Protection Association's conference in Boston.
By adamg - 6/4/22 - 4:06 pm
Around 3:25 p.m., somebody, possibly on a scooter, fired three shots on Dorchester Street in the area of Rogers Street. He didn't hit anybody, but three vehicles got fresh bullet holes.
By adamg - 5/31/22 - 2:02 pm
Michael Spicher spotted some geese littles taking advantage of a puddle near the Expressway and the narrow end of Fort Point Channel that splits the South End from South Boston today. Amy Deveau, who lives nearby, though, is not liking the scene:
this stresses me out. I helped escort a family of geese under 93 and stopped traffic in both directions and when we all made it to the other side I burst into tears. I hope these lil guys make it back to the channel.
By adamg - 5/30/22 - 11:47 am
Rendering by Perkins + Will.
A Canadian developer last week filed detailed plans with the BPDA for a four-story life-sciences building that would replace a 369-space garage at 17 Farnsworth St. off Congress Street.
By adamg - 5/27/22 - 10:06 pm
A Suffolk County grand jury today Michael Lewis, now 61, for the July, 1984, murder of Brian Watson, whose body was found by the side of I-93 in Manchester NH after he'd been shot to death in South Boston, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
What tha? Big blow brings down trees and wires, floods streets, but at least gives us a nice rainbow
By adamg - 5/22/22 - 6:04 pm
It didn't last long, but a wind-heavy storm brought down trees and power lines in Hyde Park and Roslindale and turned Truman Parkway by the Hyde Park Stop & Shop into a lake.
But after it was all done, Pleasure Bay in South Boston got a double rainbow, as photographed by David Geller. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/22 - 5:17 pm
The Fort Pointer shows us Fort Point artist Kristen Alexandra's latest knitted work, on A Street.
By adamg - 5/21/22 - 9:23 pm
Flying wedges of Boston Police officers and state troopers descended on Carson Beach in South Boston around 8 p.m. to break up a large brawl there. Read more.
By adamg - 5/19/22 - 10:13 pm
Update: South Boston description posted.
An attempt to teach eighth graders at Boston Latin School how to deal with stereotypes ended today with school officials apologizing to students, parents and school staffers from two heavily White neighborhoods. Read more.
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