Brookline
Pluto defender considers bid for Barney Frank's seat
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 3:29 pmMichael Burstein, a Brookline library trustee, science fiction writer and ardent supporter of Pluto's role as the ninth planet in our solar system, is setting up an exploratory committee to consider becoming an obstacle to the Kennedy Inevitability in the Fourth District, Brookline Patch reports.
Meanwhile, His Inevitableness, who knocked Boston City Councilor and Newton native Mike Ross out of the race, has moved to Brookline as he contemplates his own run.
And you can love it and pet it and hug it and call it George
By adamg - 1/19/12 - 10:28 pmJust in time for snow, Boston has launched its Adopt-a-Hydrant program, in which you promise to shovel out a specific hydrant after a storm, like, say, the ones we're supposed to get tonight and Saturday.
Meanwhile, both Brookline and Cambridge have referral programs to match residents with snow with teens with shovels.
Four-alarm fire in Brookline apartment building
By adamg - 1/16/12 - 10:13 am
Flames on Beacon Street. Copyright Pamela Rosenthal. Posted with permission.
Channel 25 has video of the fire this morning at 1471 Beacon St.
Pamela Rosenthal is posting photos. She writes:
The Brookline fire is more than a burning building. In an instant, the people living there lost everything they owned.
Dan Geller posted video.
Roxbury 5-year-old critical after allegedly drunk driver plows car into telephone pole
By adamg - 1/14/12 - 11:22 amIn Brookline overnight, Wicked Local Brookline reports: The kid was in the car with his mother's boyfriend.
Somebody kidnapped the baby Jesus from Brookline Village
By adamg - 1/1/12 - 9:29 pmJohn Carroll posts crime-scene photos.
Mystery pops puzzle people across area
By adamg - 12/31/11 - 1:23 pmUPDATE, 2:30 p.m.: Still popping in the Fenway.
From Brighton to Brookline to Mission Hill, people are reporting popping sounds that have been going off for several hours.
Charring crosses up T riders
By adamg - 12/23/11 - 9:02 amSo far this morning, a charred 39 bus was towed from Huntington Avenue near Brigham Circle and buses had to be rolled out for the C line when an overhead power line came down near Cleveland Circle.
Only longhairs named Sam allowed to pound coyotes
By adamg - 12/8/11 - 3:05 pmWicked Local Brookline declares "vigilante justice" not the answer to coyotes fearful Corey Hill residents say keep them trapped in their homes.
Some North Brookline residents howling mad about coyotes
By adamg - 12/5/11 - 5:21 pmBrookline selectmen tomorrow hear a request by residents of Corey Hill to let them do something to get rid of the coyotes they say have invaded their hillside, which crests along Summit Avenue.
The coyote presentation is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
Via.
It just wouldn't be an election season without a Joe Kennedy reference
By adamg - 11/30/11 - 8:06 amThe Outraged Liberal ponders the latest speculation that JOE4OIL's kid might run for Barney Frank's seat. Complete with the obligatory Michael Goldman quote.
