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By adamg - 8/15/23 - 2:01 pm

The city today launched a pilot program in Allston in which eight local businesses will use battery-powered cargo bikes to make deliveries in Allston and nearby locations. Read more.

By adamg - 8/14/23 - 9:49 am

An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about angry, menacing food deliverers on scooters in the Back Bay: Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 3:33 pm
Fire anew at Readville scrapyard

Photo by David Shorr.

Firefighters had to return to the scene of yesterday's scrapyard fire on Wolcott Street in Readville this morning when it reignited this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 12:33 pm

Jefferson County, KY - which includes the city of Louisville - had to cancel school Thursday and Friday and is canceling it again Monday and Tuesday, because of the failure of a new bus routing system based in large part on software from a Waltham company. Read more.

By adamg - 8/12/23 - 10:02 am
Logo fight: N&D vs. N&D

From the complaint.

A subsidiary of the Dedham's Norfolk & Dedham Group that has a program to offer gift cards to safe drivers called N&Drive, says the last thing it needs is to be associated with party buses, so it's suing N&D Night Out of Easton, which offers party buses and vans, to try to force that company to change its name. Read more.

By adamg - 8/11/23 - 1:12 pm

A New Hampshire woman headed for a free-sample table at Eataly at the Pru last fall says she never made it because she slipped on a slice of prosciutto - and now she is suing over the fractured ankle she says she suffered. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/23 - 9:28 am

The owners of a dispensary on Boylston Street between Gloucester and Fairfield streets in the Back Bay yesterday sued the operators of a proposed dispensary three blocks down the street - and the Zoning Board of Appeal, which approved both. Read more.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 1:52 pm

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 9:10 pm

Stingray Body Art on Harvard Avenue announced yesterday it is no more.

By adamg - 8/4/23 - 12:15 pm

Watertown News reports on the proposed boat service.

The tahget mahket: Read more.

By adamg - 8/3/23 - 5:14 pm
GLX Constructors logo

Four construction firms that teamed up to build the Green Line Extension say the company that designed key components of the new trolley line screwed up to the tune of more than $35 million in cost overruns, and they are demanding payment, in a suit filed today in Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.

By adamg - 8/1/23 - 4:44 pm

Hkergrrl asks:

Does anyone know of a comparison website for solar companies in MA?

By adamg - 8/1/23 - 2:23 pm
Sign on the door of the closed Codman Square post office: Be back at 3:30 p.m.

Last week, the Postal Service said the Codman Square post office was shut because the front door broke and it took awhile to get it fixed. But today, a Codman Square regular reported that even with a new door, people in the area are still having trouble getting in: Read more.

By adamg - 7/30/23 - 11:27 am

Cambridge Day reports on a deal to replace Raven Used Books, which is closing to the public today so it can move to Shelburne Falls.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 11:00 am

A group of Midwestern pig farmers and the pork producer they sell to yesterday asked a federal judge in Boston to keep Massachusetts from enforcing a humane-treatment law passed by voters in 2016, saying the law violates their constitutional rights and would mean ruinously high prices and spot shortages not just for Massachusetts bacon lovers but pork consumers across the country. Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/23 - 8:30 am

Brookline.News reports the Coolidge Corner Theatre, which is showing both "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie," sold more tickets their opening weekend than on any other weekend in history.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 3:31 pm
Old State Street building

Ricky D. Wright looked up this morning and noticed the "State Street" was gone from the top of the bank's former headquarters as it moves to new digs in a less angular building on Congress Street.

By adamg - 7/24/23 - 10:01 am

Show of hands: How many of you call the Hancock 200 Clarendon St.?

X marks the, um, something.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 11:58 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports that one of longtime local PR guy George Regan's people sent one of its reporters e-mail announcing a party in Mashpee to both honor Ray Flynn on his birthday and to announce a "Save Our City" campaign aimed at taking back Boston from the lefties he thinks are ruining it. Only problem: Regan hadn't asked any of the politicians he listed (including two who aren't even running for re-election) first. Regan blames his secretary, but insists the city still needs saving. Sounds like somebody needs some crisis PR help.

By adamg - 7/21/23 - 11:43 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated a woman's lawsuit over the injuries she suffered when she tripped over a decorative crosswalk edge raised a half inch above the roadway on Thorndike Street in Cambridge. Read more.

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