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By adamg - 3/21/22 - 10:32 am

Most of the T excitement today is over the new service past Lechmere on the Green Line, but Mattapan High Speed Line fans are loving this morning's reintroduction of car 3265, the first ever modern PCC car, and the first to finally get back on the rails as part of an MBTA refurbishing program.

By adamg - 2/23/22 - 9:23 am

The Currier Times reports former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis is now working to help Curry College review its security plans as the college and Milton Police continue to hunt for whoever keeps scrawling hate messages on campus. The school held classes online yesterday after one of the messages claimed violence would happen; Milton Police have joined Curry cops on campus patrols.

By adamg - 1/7/22 - 1:33 pm
Large Dunkin' iced coffee in the snow

Our own Cybah reports the area in front of Chelsea City Hall got one large Dunkin' iced-coffee cup's worth of snow this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/21 - 12:24 pm
Hunting in the Blue Hills

Yellow areas are where bow-and-arrow hunting will be allowed.

The Friends of the Blue Hills alerts us that DCR will be allowing limited bow-and-arrow hunting in roughly half of the Blue Hills Reservation starting Monday and running through Dec. 2. Read more.

By adamg - 9/18/21 - 11:50 pm
A mushroom

There were a couple of interesting mushrooms yesterday on the path to the canoe launch on the Neponset River at Paul's Bridge on the Milton/Hyde Park line, one looking like it was trying to detect alien radio signals, the other like it had been designed as a piece of folk-art tableware. Read more.

By adamg - 9/9/21 - 2:25 pm

The State House News Service reports the federal EPA yesterday formally proposed making the Neponset River, from Dana Avenue in Hyde Park to Dorchester Lower Mills a designated Superfund hazardous-waste and cleanup site due to the large volume of PCBs in river silt and the difficulties of trying to recoup costs from dozens of sites responsible for the contamination on one of the nation's oldest industrial waterways.

In its proposal to designate the river, the EPA says: Read more.

By adamg - 8/27/21 - 12:55 pm
Osemwegie about to wire money

Osemwegie at Roslindale TD Bank branch about to wire some money he didn't know came from the feds. From the affidavit.

Augustine Osemwegie, a Nigerian native living in Milton, set up an elaborate system involving used cars and multiple bank accounts to launder money for a network of Nigerians along the East Coast who, federal officials say, defrauded seniors looking for company on Facebook and using other people's personal information to suck money out of state pandemic unemployment accounts and federal payments meant for hard-hit businesses, the US Attorney's office charges. Read more.

By adamg - 7/26/21 - 9:48 am

A MassHealth manager who compared people filing complaints about the maskless to Germans turning Jews in to the Nazis says MassHealth had no right to fire her for what she said in her off hours and is suing to get her job back, plus damages. Read more.

By adamg - 4/11/21 - 5:05 pm
Woman holding a chicken

Laura Castañón reports:

If anyone in Milton is missing a chicken, I just dropped this feathery menace off at Angell.

By adamg - 3/23/21 - 2:49 pm

Five members of a Dominican drug ring used a Hyde Park restaurant and a Dorchester bodega to conduct their fentanyl and cocaine business, the proceeds of which they funneled back to their Mexican suppliers and people in the Dominican Republic through a pair of Chinese money launderers, federal officials charged in a complaint made public today. Read more.

By adamg - 2/18/21 - 9:09 am
Sheep in the snow in Milton

Mark Smith spotted some sheep in the snow fog at Milton's Wakefield Arboretum.

By anon - 12/24/20 - 4:47 pm

Since January of 2020, most nights beginning at 10.00 pm or later, there is a constant reverberating noise. Read more.

By adamg - 11/18/20 - 10:47 am

State Police report a 70-year-old bicyclist from Dorchester was killed in a crash with a utility truck at Blue Hills Parkway and Eliot Street around 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm

The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.

By adamg - 11/3/20 - 3:10 pm
Smashed State Police cruiser

Photo by State Police.

A Brockton resident faces an OUI charge after crashing a Ford F-250 into a State Police cruiser on I-93 southbound in Milton, just before Squantum Street, around 10:20 p.m. on Monday, State Police say.

The trooper was taken to Milton Hospital with minor injuries, while Kimberly Johnson, 40, was taken to a State Police barracks to be booked on a charge of OUI - alcohol.

By adamg - 10/30/20 - 11:06 am
Message in the snow: Vote

June Politano reports she got a little bored while waiting for the bus on the Fellsway this morning, so she left a message for other riders.

Patrick Melrose, meanwhile, contemplated the mixed message of snow-covered pumpkins in Melrose: Read more.

By adamg - 8/5/20 - 10:09 pm

8th Congressional Democratic Debate

The Walpole League of Women Voters sponsored an Eighth District debate between incumbent Steve Lynch and challenger Robbie Goldstein for the Sept. 1 Democratic primary.

By adamg - 8/4/20 - 4:43 pm
Downed tree at Newton Highlands

Downed tree at Newton Highlands. Photo via Ian Lamont.

Isaias may only be giving the Boston area a glancing blow, but it's enough to snap trees like matchsticks on the Mattapan Line between Milton and Butler and on the Riverside Line near Longwood and Newton Highlands. Buses have replaced the Mattapan trolley and D Line trolleys from Kenmore all the way to Riverside. Read more.

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