The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the state Department of Transportation failed to announce what it plans to do about the Casey Overpass by its own deadline this week and now says it doesn't know when it will.
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By adamg - 2/28/12 - 10:57 pm
The Swellesley Report offers up some video of a car being driven across a temporary pedestrian bridge.
By adamg - 2/22/12 - 8:52 am
The Newton Licensing Board says Chestnut Hill already has enough liquor stores and so rejected a request from the Star Market there to begin offering beer and wine, Wicked Local Newton reports.
Earlier:
City officials say Hyde Park boozy enough, oppose proposed liquor store on Fairmount Avenue.
By adamg - 2/18/12 - 10:54 am
Sometimes life gets a little frenetic around here, as Photographynatalia (above, by the Pru) and misssalimoo (by Kenmore Square) show:
By adamg - 2/17/12 - 9:17 pm
Matthew in Boston happened upon this scene in the North End:
License plate "TOWNIE" parked on a sidewalk.
What can I say? Too perfect, really.
Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 2/17/12 - 1:13 pm
Boston Police report the woman, struck at Chestnut Hill Avenue and Washington Street around 6 p.m. yesterday, has died. The crash remains under investigation; no charges have been issued.
By adamg - 2/16/12 - 8:46 am
Mike posts a report and photos of the aftermath of a rollover at 1504 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner that required the use of the Jaws of Life to get the driver out and which left a parked car and several light poles heavily damaged.
By adamg - 2/15/12 - 1:40 pm
Don't you just hate it when you come out and find a light pole's fallen on your car?
By adamg - 2/14/12 - 6:43 am
Inside Medford reports students at Medford Vocational Technical High School recently got some hands on experience with a plug-in Prius:
Robert Dell'Ova is teaching the Automative Technology students to be cautious when working on electric cars because they use high voltage and how to avoid being electrocuted when working on them.
By adamg - 2/13/12 - 10:11 am
The people who want to keep the Casey Overpass say the space under a new overpass could become a marvelous cultural gathering spot instead of remaining the dreary collection of parking spaces and muggers' hiding spots that it has been for the last 50 years.
Via Boston Daily.
By adamg - 2/11/12 - 6:54 pm
Boston Police report that a routine traffic stop of a driver who turned without signalling turned into an arrest for weapons and drug charges Friday night.
Police say one thing led to another and before long they were placing Dexter Winnie, 22, of Dorchester under arrest at School and Bradlee streets on charges of illegal possession of brass knuckles and a knife and possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school. He was also issued a citation for failure to signal.
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 3:53 pm
In response to a citizen complaint about a neighbor constantly using a traffic cone to claim a space on Weld Hill Street in Forest Hills, a city DPW inspector reports:
I sent an inspector to this location, they reported back that the cones are not there now. We will keep patroling the area periodically so we can try and confiscate the cones.
By adamg - 2/9/12 - 12:56 pm
The MetroWest Daily News reports an alleged road rager from Ashland responded to some perceived offense by tossing a bunch of pennies at his adversary - at least one of which flew through the guy's open sunroof and hit his girlfriend in the face.
By adamg - 2/7/12 - 6:30 pm
In addition to wrangling over its next mayor, the Cambridge City Council continues to tussle with the issue of a rich guy with a large piece of land who wants to put in a second driveway. The driveway is opposed by some neighbors as the possible breaking of the seal that unleashes the spawn of Satan, but Cambridge Day reports one neighbor testified this week he is not concerned about kids getting hurt on the tiny street onto which the driveway would enter because:
By adamg - 2/6/12 - 6:19 am
Mike Moura photographed a rollover around 3:30 a.m. on the 300 block of Bremen Street that sent the driver to the hospital with what looked to be a pretty nasty head wound.
By adamg - 2/5/12 - 1:28 pm
State Police report a crash at Hyde Park Avenue and Milton Street around 2:40 a.m. killed the driver of one car and sent four occupants of the other car to the hospital.
State Police said the dead driver was a 24-year-old Hyde Park man. No charges have yet been filed and the crash remains under investigation.
By adamg - 2/2/12 - 8:38 am
Street Fight interviews Mike Conley, director of marketing at Sebastians Cafe, which now has 2,200 people signed up for its phone-based payment and loyalty programs - customers use their phones rather than old-fashioned cash or credit cards to pay for lunch. Naturally, the chain started with its Kendall Square location first.
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