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By adamg - 1/20/23 - 11:51 am
Old trolley in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene (some details that would make it obvious scribbled out). See it larger.

By adamg - 1/19/23 - 12:11 pm
Mejia

City Councilor Julia Mejia says Turtleboy owner Aiden Kearney keeps libeling her and she's had enough.
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By adamg - 1/13/23 - 12:29 pm

Ellen Fleming is a reporter at WWLP in Springfield, where most people don't have a Boston accent, but she grew in Braintree, daughter of a couple of Dot rats, and used to work at Chronicle on Channel 5 here. So the other day, she was doing a report from Beacon Hill: Read more.

By adamg - 1/13/23 - 11:37 am

It's become too toxic a platform to keep wutrain going, she tells CommonWealth Magazine. Her official mayoral feed, however, will continue.

By adamg - 1/12/23 - 3:44 pm

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by 19 people against the city's requirement that they show proof of Covid-19 vaccination in most indoor public spaces because they failed to prove they were actually harmed by the rule. Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/23 - 3:37 pm

The Boston Public Health Commission relays the news, based on growing numbers of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations in Boston, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop.

Also at high numbers: Covid-19 viral particles in sewage at the MWRA's Deer Island plant, which has become a predictor of new cases in the coming couple of weeks. Read more.

By adamg - 1/4/23 - 10:37 am
Movie house in old Boston

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

By adamg - 1/2/23 - 10:13 am

Last week, the BPDA issued a press release that it had approved 3,247 new housing units in Boston in 2022. Good news, right? Well, yeah, unless you make like Scott Van Voorhis and look at similar data for 2021, which showed 6,643 new approvals, and 2020, with 10,123.

By adamg - 1/1/23 - 10:45 am

Alex Weech describes and photographs his walk yesterday from Sprague Road in Readville on the Dedham line to Charlestown on the Everett line. He reports it took 4 hours 7 minutes. Read more.

By Back End - 12/31/22 - 11:07 pm

Orange Line delay Electrical Problem at Green St.
MBTA running trains on one track.
Delays again.

By adamg - 12/30/22 - 10:23 am
Photos of Boston's 2022 murder victims
Through Christmas Day, Boston Police reported 41 murders in 2022, one more than in 2021, but 15 fewer than in 2020. Read more.
By adamg - 12/30/22 - 10:11 am
Latest Covid-19 numbers for the northern half of the MWRA district

The latest numbers from the MWRA's Deer Island treatment plant are out and they're not looking good.

By adamg - 12/29/22 - 12:21 pm
Newsboys in front of a photo studio in old Boston

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

By adamg - 12/28/22 - 8:34 pm
Bright orange sunset over Boston

Nicholas Agri couldn't help but look up as the sun went down this evening as he strolled along Kennedy Drive overlooking Short Beach Creek in Winthrop.

He was hardly alone. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/22 - 12:23 pm
Truck flipped on its side

Ramming speed! Photo by Live Boston.

Will they ever learn? Nope. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/22 - 10:03 am

Mayor Wu said today a decision will come "soon" on whether to require BPS students and staffers to don mask for the first couple of weeks of school in January. Read more.

By adamg - 12/27/22 - 9:33 am
Angry bird

A seemingly outraged blue-gray gnatcatcher in West Roxbury.

The turkeys (sometimes ornery), coyotes, rabbits and even bald eagles continued reclaiming their habitat this year. A little round bird blown across country by storms wound up on Mission Hill. A whale showed up in Dorchester Bay. But did a capybara really stroll down a lane in Charlestown? Read more.

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