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By adamg - 9/29/23 - 11:05 am

BPL announced yesterday it's expanding access to its growing online catalog of ebooks and audio nationwide, joining libraries in Brooklyn and Seattle in an effort to fight censorship and let people between 13 and 26 read and listen to books that offend their elders in power. Read more.

By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:26 am

J.L. Bell recounts the story of Polly Summer, a doll which, as the saying goes, has seen some things - it arrived in Boston just before the Revolution and survives to this day, although not in the best of shape.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 11:57 am
Block in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.

By adamg - 9/24/23 - 9:39 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports Mayor Wu has named Mary Skelton Roberts, an Orange Line rider from Jamaica Plain who works in the clean energy sector, as the city's new representative on the MBTA board of directors.

Although Boston is by far the largest community in the T district, the city had no direct representation on its board in recent years, although Quincy did. Earlier this year, the state budget signed by Gov. Healey gave Boston a seat.

By adamg - 9/19/23 - 11:46 am
Street scene in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger. A wider view.

By adamg - 9/19/23 - 10:14 am

GBH reports the team has drafted players, but has yet to pick a name.

By adamg - 9/14/23 - 12:00 pm

City officials say they're read for Lee, with sandbags and temporary flood barriers at the ready to fend off any minor surges and first responders braced for any emergencies caused by flooding, falling trees and downed wires. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 5:55 pm

Now might be a good time to take in all the deck furniture and stuff, if only it weren't for the thunderstorms going on right now. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 1:20 pm
Murphy makes her plea

Erin Murphy calls for immediate emergency declaration.

Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today urged her colleagues to tell the Boston Public Health Commission it should declare a formal state of emergency exists at Mass and Cass. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 1:01 pm
Flaherty calls for acceptance of grant

Flaherty calls for acceptance of grant.

Article corrected. The council did not actually reject the grant, but instead rejected voting on it immediately.

By a 7-5 vote, the Boston City Council rejected an attempt by Councilor Michael Flaherty (at large) to immediately approve $2.55 million in federal grants to bolster the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, overseen by BPD - the same grant the council voted to reject in 2021 after police refused to reconsider its gang database and how it shares data with outside law-enforcement agencies. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 11:06 am

The National Hurricane Center says we could know by tonight whether a formal hurricane or tropical-storm "watch" is needed for the Boston area and other parts of New England in advance of Hurricane Lee. Read more.

By adamg - 9/12/23 - 9:10 am
Map showing possible arrival time of high winds

Last night, the National Hurricane Center shifted Lee's Cone of Probability a bit to the east, enough to exclude all of eastern Massachusetts, save Cape Cod and Nantucket. Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 8:23 pm
Lee's Cone of Probability now includes eastern Massachusetts on Saturday

From the National Hurricane Center's Lee page.

OK, Lee is still a long ways away, it could wobble or wibble and miss us completely, but the National Hurricane Center added eastern Massachusetts to its Cone of Probability for Saturday - even as it cautions it's still too early to say what impact it will have besides dangerous rip currents. Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 10:36 am
Horseshoeing barn next to ice-cream place

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene, showing a horseshoeing barn (one kid, no waiting!) next to an ice-cream parlor. See it larger.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 10:33 am

Mayor Wu this morning declared a heat emergency for today and tomorrow, with temperatures reaching into the 90s and the heat index - the heat plus the impact of humidity - expected to go even higher. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 2:34 pm

Dave Wattles, MassWildlife's black-bear and furbearer biologist, will lead an online discussion on coyotes in Boston - how they got here, how they live and how the more bipedal among us can coexist with them, starting at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 19. Free registration required.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 2:49 pm

Four Bostonians, joined by three gun groups, last week sued Police Commissioner Michael Cox over what they say are excessive delays in processing their license-to-carry applications. Read more.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 10:33 am
Block of stores in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

By adamg - 9/4/23 - 8:30 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports the deal was announced at this morning's Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day breakfast - and that it was reached, as only a Boston labor deal could be, around 10 p.m. on Sunday in the back room of the Brendan Behan Pub in Hyde Square.

By adamg - 9/4/23 - 2:01 pm
Cops push strikers out of way to let oil trucks pass

Boston cops shove striking workers out of the way so East Boston gas trucks can make deliveries

In January, 1969, members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers went on strike across the country against large oil companies. In East Boston, a Herald-Traveler photographer snapped Boston cops pushing picketers out of the way so that drivers of gasoline tanker trucks could deliver the loads they'd picked up at Mobil Oil Corp.'s East Boston terminal. Read more.

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