The BU board of trustees voted yesterday to begin selling off the university's holdings in fossil-fuel companies, school President Robert Brown announced today. Read more.
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By adamg - 9/22/21 - 5:14 pm
Yesterday, Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo declared the Boston Public Health Commission a pack of disorganized buffoons trying to foist Boston's Methadone Mile problems on his fair city by sticking some Mass-and-Cass people in a currently unused Quality Inn there - with no prior notice to him.
Today, acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey says Arrigo knew about the plans: Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/21 - 8:56 pm
Angelina Camacho said tonight she has filed for a recount of the results for the District 7 (Roxbury) preliminary, in which she narrowly came in third behind perpetual candidate Roy Owens.
In a statement, Camacho said: Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/21 - 2:16 pm
Signs all over Chinatown.
From Neponset Circle to Chinatown, agitated citizens are filing 311 complaints about those stupid yellow "forced auction" signs that have sprung up in recent days. One person even walked around Chinatown to take photos with which to urge the city to take down the "P.O.S." signs.
By adamg - 9/8/21 - 11:58 am
Monday was the last day of coronavirus-related parking without payment for residents with parking stickers at meters in their own neighborhoods: BTD workers are once again ticketing even the be-stickered who don't feed a meter or who stay at a metered space for more than two hours.
By adamg - 9/4/21 - 11:10 am
A Mass and Cass regular is charged with fatally stabbing Ugochukwu McDonald Anaele, 29, of Houston, on Atkinson Street on Aug. 23. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/21 - 2:01 pm
Something like this, only with condos instead of hotel rooms. Rendering by CBT Architects.
The developers who won city approval in 2019 to keep three sides of the former Alexandra Hotel at Washington Street and Massachusetts Avenue, gut the interior and add several floors to create a 13-story, 150-room boutique hotel have filed a request with the BPDA to instead turn what's left of the structure into a 13-story, 106-unit condo building. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/21 - 9:48 pm
Boston Police today identified the man stabbed to death on Atkinson Street on Monday morning as Ugochukwu McDonald Anaele, 29, of Houston, TX.
Anaele was the fifth person stabbed to death in or near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard this year.
By adamg - 8/25/21 - 9:49 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about all the wheelchairs, bicycles and shopping carts getting dumped into the Fort Point Channel by the Jimmy Kelly Bridge. Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/21 - 10:06 pm
Tyler Brown pleaded guilty yesterday to a series of charges, including armed assault with intent to murder for an incident in May, 2020 in which he shot repeatedly at Boston police officers in the area of Chester Park on Massachusetts Avenue, one at close range - while on probation for a double stabbing in Chinatown in 2014. Read more.
By adamg - 8/16/21 - 9:05 am
Jay Hajj at Mike's City Diner on Washington Street in the South End reports he had to call 911 twice in one day due to "unruly and insulting customer behavior" and asks people to remember everybody's doing the best they can and to take a deep breath before deciding to lash out at somebody over a breakfast order.
By adamg - 8/10/21 - 11:03 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a plan by CubeSmart to add a one-bedroom apartment to its self-storage facility at 968 Massachusetts Ave. - for a manager to live in to help assure 24-hour security for the storage units. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/21 - 12:12 pm
Boston Police report arresting Derermell Robinson, 23, on charges related to the fatal shooting of a woman on West Concord Street in the South End Friday night. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/21 - 9:44 pm
The Boston Police Department reports a woman was shot to death at 162 West Concord St., just before Tremont Street, around 9:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/21 - 10:29 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the space now occupied by Oishii is for sale. That includes the indoor waterfall.
By adamg - 7/19/21 - 11:00 am
Boston University President Robert Brown said today that optimism that all Boston University employees would get vaccinated against the virus proved unwarranted, so the school is now requiring that everybody who gets a BU paycheck either show proof of vaccination by Sept. 2 - or really good proof why they should be exempted for medical or religious reasons. Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/21 - 4:40 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old on charges he shot up some of the Ruth Barkley Apartments off Monsignor Reynolds Way on Saturday afternoon. Read more.
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Recent South End crime
Man stabbed at Mass and Cass, 7/6/23