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Bison roaming Boston

Kidlet and I went for a little drive around the 'hood today. Wound up on some side street in Jamaica Plain by Brookline and Allandale Farm. Came around a bend, and whoa! What was that? Bison? Circled around, there they were again - on the Boston side of the line (which we know because of the "Welcome to Brookline" sign ahead of us). Bison!


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First accident of the New Year

Matthew Cote forwarded this photo of an accident around 1:50 a.m. involving two cabs and a car at Cleveland Circle. He reports:

Multiple emergency vehicles. Firefighters took someone out of the non-cab car and put them on a stretcher.


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New Year starts with murder in Dorchester

Boston Police report finding a man with gunshot wounds outside 315 Geneva Ave. around 2:15 a.m. He was taken to Carney Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Fri, 01/01/2010 - 02:15
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When the hot coffee didn't work, he brought out the brass knuckles

Boston Police report a suburbanite rang in the New Year by getting into an argument with three guys on Washington Street in Brighton, throwing hot coffee in the face of two of them and then attempting to continue the discussion with a set of brass knuckles he had in his pocket.

Unfortunately for him, they begged to differ with his points and held him down on the ground until a passing cop spotted them.

Fri, 01/01/2010 - 04:34
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Sailing into the New Year

Katken photographed First Night, including this ice sculpture in front of Trinity Church.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and tagged as universalhub on Flickr.

Greg Mackay photographed ice penguins by the Aquarium. Matt Conti videoed the fireworks over Boston Harbor.


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A bit of a shot in the dark

Over the Christmas vacation, I rented a black/grey Toyota Corolla (MA tag: 466 GX8) from the Budget Rental on Brighton Ave in Allston in order to visit my family in Maryland and return to Boston in time to celebrate New Year's Eve with friends in town.

I returned to town late on Wednesday night and unloaded my Christmas gifts and then took the car to the rental agency on the morning of 12/31/09. That afternoon, I came to realize I had left one of my boxes in the car's backseat.

The rental agency had closed its doors at 3 PM and I was too late to contact them about possibly retrieving my item and they won't open until Saturday morning to find out if they'd perhaps found it in the car.

In the meantime, the national customer service number let me know that the car had been rented out again until 1/2/2010...so if the rental office had not seen the box either, then it may be in the hands of the new renter who now has the car. If you or anyone you know has rented a black/grey Corolla from Budget in Allston for the New Year weekend, please let me know. If it turns out on Saturday that Budget has found my package, then I'll ask Adam to delete this post.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me on this. I know this post is quite the shot in the dark, long shot, rare chance...but I really hope that the package can make its way safely back to me this holiday season. It would mean a lot to me.


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The Grand Procession into the new year

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My favorite parts of the First Night Grand Procession are always the unusual outfits and the giant puppets, because you just don't tend to see stuff like that in your average parade.

Hope you have a great New Year's!


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Peter Pan bus catches fire on I-93 in Medford

Northbound at Roosevelt Circle, Ben Jackson tweets. Based on the comments below, sounds like everybody got out OK.


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