Tufts University
School of Dental Medicine
Free Dental Screening Offered
4:30-6:30pm, January 9th, 2012
Senior Dental Students
Seeking Patients for Licensure Exam
Who might qualify?
People with one or all of the following:
Small Cavities
Tartar (Calculus)
Periodontal (Gum) Disease
People who have not been to the dentist
in several years or more
Boston Police are looking for a pair in connection with an armed robbery around 10 p.m. outside 50 Walford Way.
One is described as black, 24, 5'5" and wearing a black coat and a black hoodie. The other is described as black, 17 and wearing a black hoodie.
Groupon's initial Boston deal today was for a shooting range:
A bullet travels at hundreds of miles per hour, much like a beam of light or a kiss blown by Paul Bunyan.
They've since switched that to a deal on a trolley tour of Boston.
A statement from Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis on today's news out of Connecticut:
The Boston Business Journal reports part of the Everett site Steve Wynn took a look at for a possible casino is actually in Boston - whose mayor has long and loudly backed a casino at Suffolk Downs. Wonder how long it would take the BRA to draw up casino-only zoning that would cover only one particular part of East Boston?
The Boston Public Library's posted this ad for the Providence and Boston train station that once sat where Columbus Avenue today enters Park Square - and which replaced an even older station. Note on this map that its tracks crossed the line of the Boston and Albany just before the station.
Here's a photo from sometime after its construction in 1872 - note the Lincoln statue, which remains in the square, although not in the same prominent location:
Remarkable project, the Urban Ring. The Mission Hill Gazette reports on a quiet little meeting at BRA headquarters to kick off planning for a study on linking the Blue and Silver lines as part of the Urban Ring - the crosstown subway bus line the state nailed to its perch in 2009.
"The project is dormant," Read explained. "Like trees, it'll come back to life when the season is right."
The formal announcement comes tonight, BPS tweeted, and removes a potential objection to rezoning by parents who already have kids in a Boston public school. School officials had earlier said they were considering lifting grandfathering - in which younger siblings are given preference at schools their older brothers and sisters already attend.
Michael Mercogliano, the founder of Mike's Pastry in the North End, passed away this week. The restaurant posted the news to their Facebook page on Tuesday.
According to his remembrance page from the Boston Harborside Home, a visitation and the funeral Mass will be open to the public on Monday and Tuesday, respectively.
That's the latest National Weather Service thinking for a storm that could hit us starting Sunday night.
However, the NWS warns us a much stronger storm might whack us Tuesday into Wednesday, which no rhyme can handle: "SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF RAIN AND/OR SNOW WOULD BE POSSIBLE."
The Globe reports Gov. Patrick plans to make Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral his new public safety secretary.
Deadline Hollywood reports AMC is working on a series called "We Hate Paul Revere:"
It centers on two brothers living in Colonial Boston who are not fans of local industrialist and activist Paul Revere.
Could be worse: At least they're not doing a comedy about lunkhead townie bank robbers (yet).
Maybe they can get Paul Revere and the Raiders to do the soundtrack.
CBS reports it's hired a guy named Joe Breezy out of Atlanta to serve as music director at Amp 103.3, which means they might be about to expand their current playlist, which now consists of "Titanium," "Gangnam Style," that new song by Taylor Swift and that new song by Rihanna.
WBZ reports some international aptitude test showed Massachusetts eighth graders are among the best in the world - the Massachusetts kids ranked second in math and sixth in science. And that makes them the wicked smartest kids in the US, at least as judged by this particular test.
David notices Boston transportation services tend to be built in fives and then the powers that be eliminate one of them: There used to be five Green Line branches, five Silver Line routes and five terminals at Logan.
What's going on here? Do the planners have spooky Mickey Mouse hands? Does Boston overbuild then scale back? Shrinkage?
David Bernstein reports on the first person to announce a race for one of the four at-large council seats next year:
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