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By adamg - 4/5/23 - 2:36 pm

Ryan Grannan-Doll reports:

Just tried to pickup meds at CVS in Newtonville. Pharmacist told me CVS computer network is down NATIONWIDE. No Rx filling or selling. No timeline for fix.

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

Update: Board found violation, issued warning.

The manager at a Fenway bar says that before a woman - underaged, it turns out - collapsed on the dance floor and began foaming at the mouth, she tried to get in with "five or six small airplane bottles" of booze in her purse. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 2:58 pm

Update: The store passed a re-inspection on April 18 and was allowed to re-open.

A Boston health inspector last week ordered the Dollar Tree, 45 Vine St. in Charlestown, shut until it can prove it's solved a major rodent infestation that included evidence of mice chewing through bags of chips and peanuts, then washing the snacks down with water from plastic bottles they also gnawed through. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 2:27 pm

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether the Glass Slipper - half of what remains of the Combat Zone - could have done anything to prevent a stripper giving a customer a lap dance from, he told police, reaching into his pocket, getting his phone and Zelle-ing herself $320 - after he'd already paid downstairs for some extra attention in one of the club's upstairs VIP rooms. Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 12:59 pm

The Boston Licensing Board will decide Thursday whether Legacy Boston on Warrenton Street could have done anything to prevent an incident in which an unruly man not allowed entrance near closing began trying to fight his way in, only to fall on the stairs and hit his nose hard enough to start it bleeding. Read more.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 10:29 pm
Flaherty holds 'crack and meth pack'

Flaherty with a "meth and crack pack" he pulled out of his jacket pocket.

City officials from Chelsea traveled across the Mystic today to tell Boston city councilors how a ban on 50-mil liquor bottles has meant fewer drunken incidents for police and EMTs to respond to and cleaner and even safer streets. Read more.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:41 am

The owner of a Quality Inn on the Revere/Saugus line is suing the Boston Public Health Commission for the money it says it's owed for holding all of its rooms for three months in 2021 for Mass and Cass denizens who Boston never actually sent there once Revere and Saugus officials erupted in anger on learning of the plan. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/23 - 2:15 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today unanimously approved a proposal by a Packards Corner jewelry store to add pawn services to its offering. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/23 - 12:26 pm
Car into building on South Street in Roslindale Square

This morning, John snapped the latest example of a driver plowing into a building in Roslindale Square, on South Street just past the curve from Washington Street, although the damage was nowhere near as severe as the last time somebody did that.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 11:44 pm

A Dorchester man who says the Dunkin' mobile app sometimes adds unexpected overcharges for everything from cream cheese on his bagels to whipped cream on his frozen hot chocolate has filed what he hopes will be a class-action suit against the company. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 10:47 am

And the Belmont blogger whom the state Cannabis Control Commission inadvertently e-mailed personal information on 17,000 Massachusetts cannabis workers - and former workers - is now in hiding. GBH reports on the case, which may stem from a commission investigation into the way a sanctioned Russian oligarch may have been funding one particular company that operates in Massachusetts.

By adamg - 3/20/23 - 11:15 am

An insurance company says a contractor putting down asphalt at a residential building undergoing renovation in 2021 sparked a $1-million fire and it wants that company to pay it for the money it paid the building's owner. Read more.

By adamg - 3/20/23 - 10:00 am

City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) says it's past time to outlaw the sale of tiny booze bottles in Boston, both because they make it too easy for alcoholics to get a quick fix and because they trash up city streets. Read more.

By adamg - 3/16/23 - 10:19 am

The Somerville Media Fund reports the Somerville City Council voted to begin drafting a home-rule petition asking the state Legislature to let it take steps to rein in rent increases in the city. The Boston City Council last week approved its own home-rule petition for the power to set limits on how fast rents could be increased in older, larger buildings in the city.

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 10:33 pm

The owners of the Washington pub called the Dubliner today sued the owners of the Government Center pub called the Dubliner for trademark infringement, saying another pub with the same name would confuse consumers, even if they are 430 miles apart, because the Washington pub also has its own brand of Irish whiskey that is for sale in Boston. Read more

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 3:47 pm

BJ's announced today it's going to install hundreds of giant wheeled stalks to roam aisles making sure all its inventory is where it's supposed to be. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/23 - 11:53 am

A group of Massachusetts lobstermen says the Monterey Bay Aquarium has cost them significant business by issuing what they charge are false claims that the buoy lines attached to their lobster pots can entangle and drown endangered right whales. Read more.

By adamg - 3/10/23 - 4:57 pm

Bank Run Scene from "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946)

WCVB reports customers were lining up outside the Wellesley branch of the Silicon Valley Bank after news broke that the bank collapsed today.

By adamg - 3/9/23 - 11:16 am

The Beacon Hill Times reports the opening of Music Research Library, which sells mainly vinyl records, on Joy Street this month. It moved up here from Providence.

By adamg - 3/6/23 - 2:26 pm

The Daily Beast reports on the situation in Catawba, SC, where residents say a emissions from paper mill that Kraft is a part owner of is making them and their pets sick, under the look-the-other-way gaze of regulators who are, one resident says "as useless as tits on a boar hog."

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