Community journalism

Jumpstart Your Season! bicycling workshop

Ferris Wheels Bike Shop — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:15:50 +0000

Laura Smeaton, a League of American Bicyclists LCI (League Cycling Instructor) presents a free workshop for those who want to get out on their bikes earlier this year. Stubborn patches of ice, chilly breezes, and cold spring rains will be no match for you once you're equipped with the knowledge from this workshop! Winter? What winter?!

When: Sunday, February 12, 4:00-5:30pm
Where: Ferris Wheels Bike Shop, 66 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (www.ferriswheelsbikeshop.com)

Newton gets a new Web site

adamg — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:56:27 +0000

Village 14 is a collaboration between longtime local blogger Sean Roche and Greg Reibman, who is also a longtime blogger and who was, until recently, publisher of the regional chain that owns the Newton Tab. Reibman, however, writes the site is not a strike back at GateHouse. The duo aren't looking for ads, to start. It's just a couple of Newtonites who are really interested in the place and who love to blog, he says.

H/t Ian Lamont.

Occupy Thanksgiving: a cookout to feed Occupy Boston

Modemac — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:40:06 +0000

A volunteer effort to provide food for the Occupy Boston tent city will be holding a Thanksgiving cookout at Dorchester's Franklin Park on the morning of Thursday, November 24, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.

Organs available! Second owner, exc cond, lightly used. Principals only, please.

Jay Levitt — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:52:50 +0000

Copy edit fail:

Massachusetts General Hospital is launching Boston’s second hand transplant program.

Why, oh why, can't we have a better press corps?

MGH to begin replacing hands

Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest.

ralphlopez — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:58:40 +0000

Internet viral article originally posted at DailyKos.com, without images. For image version go here. Please call and email Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and send her this blog: email: Phone: (617) 727-2200 ARREST RUMSFELD

How not to get a visit by the police at 2 a.m. or be cited to the Dean of Students

abetterbrighton — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:12:22 +0000

Welcome back everyone to a great year!

This year Police District 14 is under pressure from the city to strictly enforce the law in the problem area of Allston, particularly the Linden and Gardner Street area.

Disturbing the peace means:

50th Birthday Party and Rededication Ceremony of the golden anniversay of The Roslidale Branch Library Building with Mayor Menino Sept 16

Wicksda — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:31:08 +0000

Friday, September 16, Roslindale Branch Library 4246 Washington Street, Roslindale, MA

Join present and past staff, your neighbors, The Friends, The Mayor and officials.

3-5 PM Refreshments, games, goodie bags for kids, Davey The Balloon Man

5-PM Redeication Ceremony, ribbon and cake cutting with Mayor Thomas Menino, Councilor Rob Consalvo, BPL President Amy Ryan.

5:30-7PM Refreshments, games, music by DJ Pat Francis

All are welcome to come and enjoy the fun.

Who is Annie Mulz? Sticker Plague

jp_guy — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:14:51 +0000

I've started seeing "Who is Annie Mulz" stickers all over my neighborhood. On signs, signposts, mailboxes, and so on.
A quick search shows me that Annie Mulz is an edgy clothing store on Newbury Street. By edgy, I mean the kind of place that looks like it might hire a publicity firm that might carry out a guerrilla marketing campaign that plasters stickers all over the place, all while being plausibly deniable and non-liable for damages and cleanup. This kind of thing makes our neighborhoods ugly and pisses me off. Does anyone have better insight into this problem...

Below the mud: Beneath Chelsea Street's new bridge, another work in progress

icoverthewaterfront — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:36:15 +0000

The Longfellow Bridge has its design challenges ahead, and the BU bridge has been no picnic for engineers.

But another bridge in Boston – the Chelsea Street bridge between Chelsea and East Boston – is a simple affair. By the end of the summer, the new bridge, designed by HNTB and built by J.F. White of Framingham, may be complete. It may even happen ahead of schedule.

Although the men working with iron above the river are having no trouble, the men who move mud below it have been facing a dozen daunting engineering tasks for over a year.

They’re all trying to figure out how to make the channel for oil tankers wider. Engineers, pilots, tug captains, oil companies, private landowners, and Coast Guard and Army personnel have been at the drawing board for two years now.

The new bridge, after all, will span the more than 200-ft. wide channel without interruption. That’s thanks to two superstructures that now dominate the Chelsea skyline (anyone can see them from the Tobin Bridge). So the bridge, when opened, might be wide enough to fit a “Panamax” oil tanker headed to the Gulf, Irving and Global tanks upstream.

Beans in a Can: Cheap & Thrifty

jdrazz — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:54:32 +0000

Broke and trendy? Roslindale film maker and blogger Elaine McMillion has put together a directory of every thrift store, boutique, and consignment shop in the Boston area along with ideas of what to do with all the homeless ex-belongings.

http://www.beansinacan.com

Allston Civic Association meeting

chicken — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:09:32 +0000

Wednesday evening, 6pm, Honan-Allston library.

http://allstoncivicassociation.org/

Gigantic goldfish surfaces at Jamaica Pond

stevegarfield — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:47:01 +0000

While walking Jamaica Pond this morning a huge 'goldfish' surfaced. A darker fish was also swimming along with it.

Did someone drop a little goldfish in the pond years ago?

#rubyriot: Boston Innovators Unite Tonight

AdamPieniazek — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:12:27 +0000

Boston's startup scene constantly gets compared, negatively, to San Francisco & NYC. A group of Bostonians had enough and decided to show everyone that we might not be the biggest or most famous innovation center but we are the loudest and nothing can stop us when we work together.

Bostonians from all over are uniting tonight to show that not only is our startup scene huge, vibrant and growing but we're also willing to help each other and others purely for the sake of helping. Need a job, a lead, or just someone to bounce ideas off of? Ruby Riot is calling your name.

Irish Social Club of West Roxbury closes abruptly

Iresd — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:12:10 +0000

http://westroxbury.patch.com/articles/irish-social-club-closes-abruptly

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/west_roxbury/2011/04/after_65_years_irish_social_cl.html

The last dance was this past Sunday, no notice about the closing or about the financial situation was given to members. If the building does need to be sold couldn't there be some match up with the YMCA or Roche Center. It seems hard to believe that area Irish Step Dancing schools wouldn't have been interesting in renting the space for classes.

Prison halfway-house supervisor gets month in prison for selling heroin to residents

adamg — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:04:10 +0000

A supervisor at a Fenway halfway house that helps recently released federal prisoners get used to living on the outside was sentenced after admitting she helped her boyfriend - whom she met while he lived there - sell heroin to residents.

After her release from prison, Deborah Belim, 44, of Roxbury, will have to spend seven months under house arrest, the US Attorney's Office in Boston, reports.

Prosecutors said Belim became involved with the man while he was a resident at the Coolidge House - and selling drugs to other residents. After his stay, he moved in with Belim, who then began transporting heroin into the residence and selling it to residents, prosecutors say.

The case against Belim