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JP council will ask Whole Foods for something after all

By adamg on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 7:43am

Exactly what, however, is a secret, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports:

“We'll certainly share info when we can, but we're concerned that sharing with the public what we’re asking before we ask it could compromise the effort and be perceived as acting in bad faith," said a statement from the JPNC's "Negotiating Team" sent to the Gazette by member and council chair Andrea Howley.


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Shooting in Readville leaves one near death

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 9:19pm

Update: Arrest made

Update: Boston Police report the victim, in his 20s, was shot repeatedly.

Fri, 09/09/2011 - 20:45
Neighborhoods: 
Hyde Park
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Readville
Guns


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Boston public-health officials move to bar sale of new nicotine delivery systems to kids

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 5:37pm

The Boston Public Health Commission today approved draft regulations to ban the sale of "e-cgarettes" to minors, prohibit the sales of single cigars and double the fines for violating the city's tobacco-control rules.

The proposed e-cigarette regulations would cover devices that "are made of plastic and metal and heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge to create vapor that the smoker inhales," the board said in a statement.

There are no current laws that bar their sale to minors and already several convenience stores sell them, with more interested in pushing them, the board says. Under the proposed regulations, anybody who wants to sell e-cigarettes would require a city permit and would require the gizmos to be stored behind a counter, like cigarettes, and not sold to anyone under 18.

The proposed regulations would also "prohibit the sale of low-cost, single-sale cigars that have become an attractive option for price-conscious youth looking for less expensive alternatives to cigarettes."

Fines for retailers who violate the regulations would double - first-offense fines of $100 would go to $200 and then rise to $800 for the fourth offense over a 24-month period.

Before the regulations go into effect, the board will hold a public hearing on Oct. 4. The hearing starts at 6 p.m. at the commission's 1010 Mass. Ave. offices

cheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the 2nd floor Hayes Conference Room at the Boston Public Health Commission, 1010 Massachusetts, in Boston. Written comments are being accepted by the Board of Health from Sunday, Sept. 11, through Oct. 10. They can be sent to the Boston Public Health Commission, Board Office, Attention: Jamie Martin, Board Secretary, 1010 Ma

The board will first hold a public hearing

6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, in the 2nd floor Hayes Conference Room at the Boston Public Health Commission, 1010 Massachusetts


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God, hipsters at it again

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 4:30pm

The Herald reports the artsy-fartsy crowd thinks SoCa would be a better name for the area south of North Station, or as they're re-imagining it, SOuth of CAnal, which barely makes any sense because Canal's more or less a north/south road, and just, gah, look, if you're so in love with frickin' Manhattan, move there already. Or if it's too unironic for you, try some other neighborhood just dying for some frou-frou boutiques. Like Kings Highway or, I dunno, Passaic. Just leave us crabby Bostonians alone with our West Ends and Bullfinch Triangles.

"The idea is to connect this place more to Faneuil Hall."

Just great: A new place to take all the relatives from The City when they come up to see what interesting little projects you're doing up here in the hinterlands.

And why the hell does everything have to be SOuth of SOmething?

Thanks, I think, to Jay Fitzgerald for pointing out the story, which I'd somehow managed to miss.


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Gallivan Boulevard bank robbed; suspect in custody

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 2:32pm

The Mt. Washington Bank branch at 489 Gallivan Blvd. was held up around 2 p.m. by a man claiming to have both a gun and a bomb. He didn't get a chance to spend any of the money; though - arriving officers quickly arrested him.

Thu, 09/08/2011 - 14:00
Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Boston bank robbery


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Some truck drivers aren't very bright, are they?

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 10:44am

Close call

If students in UHauls can learn to stay off Storrow Drive (well, for the most part), how are we to explain professional drivers with commercial driver's licenses? Such as whoever was behind the wheel of this big rig, which Andrew photographed around 9:50 a.m. stopped just short of the BU Bridge train tracks.


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Suffering for their art

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 9:25am

Blick line

Steve captured the people waiting in line this morning for the opening of the new Dick Blick art-supplies store in Central Square.


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Remember

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 9:14am

Events to remember 9/11 in the Boston area:

Saturday

  • 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Boston City Hall Plaza:
    In collaboration with Boston Cares, ArtStreet, Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund, and 9/11day.org, 9/11 families and friends are creating a 20'x30' MA 9/11 Fund mural on canvas with "Sidewalk Sam."

Sunday:

  • 7 a.m. - 5 p.m., Fenway Park, Gate D
    American Red Cross 9/11 Remembrance Blood Drive.

     

  • 7:30 a.m., 9/11 Memorial, Boston Public Garden:
    Wreath-laying ceremony. Police officers from across the state will participate in a silent watch at the memorial throughout the day.

     

  • 8:30 a.m., State House, front steps:
    Flag lowering, moment of silence and reading of names. At 8:46, there will be a moment of silence.

     

  • 9:30 a.m., State House, House of Representatives chamber.
    Presentation of Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery. Speakers include family members, Senator John Kerry, Senator Scott Brown and Victoria Reggie Kennedy.

     

  • 10:30 a.m., Hope Central Church, 85 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain:
    From Terror to Hope: Services of Remembrance. Come remember, honor, lament, forgive, and hope in community.

     

  • Copley Square, 11 a.m.
    From Remembrance to Hope: Community Service in Copley Square. 200 members of ensembles from eight different religious groups, and ministers, preachers and laypersons from multiple organizations.

     

  • 11 a.m., Swampscott:
    9/11 Heroes Run.

     

  • 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Rose Kennedy Greenway (near the Aquarium):
    3d Annual Care Package Drive for troops overseas (MA Military Heroes' Fund).

     

  • >Noon - 5 p.m., Gallery 360, Northeastern University
    Visual artist Robin Masi and musician Ken Field present their "Witness Project" - a record of the spiritual aftermath of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Flight 93.

     

  • 1 p.m., across the city:
    Churches that will ring bells. (Faneuil Hall will as well). List of participating churches.

     

  • 3 - 5 p.m., Hatch Shell
    Massachusetts Remembers 9/11 Memorial Concert and Ceremony: The tribute will include: readings, poems, interfaith prayers and a time for reflection and remembrance. There will be a special musical program to be performed by the Boston Pops Brass Ensemble. Boston Children's Chorus will also perform.

     

  • 5 p.m., Harvard University:
    9110 Meals on 9/11.

     

  • 5:30 p.m., Hope Central Church, 85 Seaverns Ave., Jamaica Plain:
    From Terror to Hope: Services of Remembrance. Come remember, honor, lament, forgive, and hope in community.

     

  • 9:30 p.m., Berklee Performance Center:
    9/11 Berklee Memorial Concert.
    More than 100 members of the Berklee College of Music community will share original songs, compositions, poetry, dance, and stories in a multimedia event designed to offer unity, hope, and inspiration on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

     


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People walking at night along parkways next to a forest tend to make police responding to burglary calls suspicious

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 8:49am

Boston Police report officers responding to a break-in call Tuesday night at 302 Turtle Pond Parkway in Hyde Park noted a guy walking down the road nearby "due to the fact that this area does not have much pedestrian traffic." The road is bordered on one side by Stony Brook Reservation.

When they got to the house and discovered it had, in fact, been broken into, as well as ransacked, they radioed to other officers to check out the guy walking along the parkway. When he realized police eyes were on him, he "raised his hood and started walking away."

Police say Solomon Bona, 18, "had an obviously heavy bag on his shoulder," which turned out to contain "a large number of coins and jewelry."

The residents of the house were brought over and identified the jewelry and coins as theirs, after which Bona was charged with breaking and entering in the nighttime, malicious destruction of property and receiving stolen property.

Innocent, etc.


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Woman who jumped out of car doesn't know why driver sped off - to his death miles away

By adamg on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 8:19am

Channel 4 interviews Cassandra Combs, the woman hit by the door of the car driven by Mark McMullen, shot to death by a Boston Police officer on the Rockland/Hingham line after a high-speed chase that left several cars and cruisers damaged, and several police officers with injuries.

Ed. question: Combs said McMullen was a regular along Blue Hill Avenue, but the car he was driving had Connecticut plates. Might that have had something to do with his reticence to stop for police? UPDATE: As explained in the comments below, no, it probably didn't.


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