Boston Police report that since Jan. 26, numerous cars in Jamaica Plain have been broken into, including on Centre, Paul Gore, Forbes and Castleton streets and Lochstead Avenue, typical on Thursday nights into Friday mornings.
Two cars parked at
WCVB reports President Biden has nominated Our Marty, the former mayor turned labor secretary turned NHL player-union head, to become one of 11 members of the board of governors that oversees the USPS.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that the Salt Bae will not be re-opening a salt and steak restaurant in Boston after all, following the closing of his Park Square outlet last year.
WCVB reports MBTA General Manager Phil Eng said today that the power cable that shorted out or blew up or something that tripped all the other power cables at North Station to shut down, taking the Blue, Green and Orange lines with them didn't belong to National Grid - it was the MBTA's own cable. Read more.
City councilors yesterday denounced management at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center, 120 Fisher Ave. on Mission Hill, for the way it's planning to close by July 1, frightening residents and delaying or bouncing employee paychecks. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board, which had already given John Tyler one last chance to prove he could actually run a restaurant in the Maverick Square building he co-owns with his ex-wife, voted today to schedule a revocation hearing for its liquor license as soon as possible after receiving word his latest restaurant has failed. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter has the details of the plan, which calls for reconstruction to start in 2026.
NBC Boston reports State Police had to call in a crane truck to remove the remains of an excavator on a flatbed whose driver slammed into the top of the inbound tunnel around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday. No, the crane truck did not then also storrow.
A Jamaica Plain man initially arrested for posting child pornography online, which led to evidence he paid one teenager to video himself raping his 9-year-old cousin and another to video herself having sex with men, was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison followed by lifetime probation, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday unanimously approved plans by Exodus Bagels to add sit-down seating to its bagel bakery at 2 McCraw St. off Belgrade Avenue. Read more.
Carina Flynn reports she was walking down Washington Street in Downtown Crossing shortly before 3:15 p.m. when she heard a loud crashing sound and turned to see the remains of a second-floor window from HomeGoods, 350 Washington St. lying all over the sidewalk. Read more.
WBUR reports Mayor Wu and Boston Public Schools have "indefinitely" put on hold plans to rebuild the crumbling former West Roxbury High School into a new state-of-the-art home for the John D. O'Bryant School, after parents, students and teachers raised objections to a school on the side of a swamp about as far away from the rest of the city as one could get.
Mary Ellen spotted this northern harrier at Millennium Park the other day.
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let City Smoke Shop, 957 Commonwealth Ave., add beer and wine to its offerings. Read more.
Some NSFW language from back in the day.
Update: Approved.
Mark Medico has worked at the L Street Tavern in South Boston for more than 20 years, so he knows exactly what it's like and what its patrons want - and he vows not to change a thing. Read more.
Fronm the Boston tree map.
All of Boston's street trees, mapped.
The data comes from the city's inventory of both street trees and trees in parks, which is available for download as spreadsheets.
More info on Boston's "urban forest" efforts.
Boston Police report arresting a man for an incident outside the Walgreens, 841 Boylston St. in the Back Bay, around 9:10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
A federal magistrate judge today ruled Wolf Fevrier of Roslindale both a potential threat to society and a flight risk and so ordered him held without bail during proceedings on charges he robbed the Rockland Trust branch on Centre Street in West Roxbury on Feb. 16. Read more.
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