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By adamg - 3/3/24 - 1:16 pm

An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about irresponsible dog owners along Border Street in East Boston: Read more.

By adamg - 3/2/24 - 12:17 pm
Bloody Sunday commemoration at the State House

Molly Lanzarotta attended the Poor Peoples Campaign commemoration on the Common and at the State House of Bloody Sunday in 1965, when armed goons under the control of the county sheriff, some on horseback, attacked and beat peaceful civil-rights marchers in Selma, AL. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 12:12 am

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.

By adamg - 2/22/24 - 1:17 pm

Boston Police report officers tracking a trail of break-ins and smashed store windows along on Charles Street last night found James Lynn Schaff, 57, of Cambridge, brick in hand, before he could smash what would have been at least his second window of the night. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 12:51 pm

State Police report divers pulled the body of a man out of the river near the Longfellow about 1:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 5:30 pm
Sunset over Boston Common and Charles River

Tony Ursillo watched the sun go down over the Common and the Charles River this evening.

Further upstream, in the ever aptly named Watertown, Pat Miguel Tomaino watched a nice sunset over the Charles as well: Read more.

By adamg - 1/3/24 - 10:00 pm

A man already facing charges for aggravated assault at a Dorchester bowling alley now faces charges he started the New Year by raping a woman on Bowdoin Street on Beacon Hill, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 12/31/23 - 10:03 pm
Fireworks over Boston Common

Myron Freeman took in the family fireworks over Boston Common tonight - after first watching some ice skating under the lights at the Frog Pond.

By adamg - 12/29/23 - 9:19 am

Aline Kaplan recounts the transformation of what had been a way for men to relieve themselves in private rather than in the Frog Pond into today's Earl of Sandwich.

By adamg - 12/4/23 - 2:00 pm
Goat on a city street, just not a Boston street

Somebody with access to both graphics and AI apps has now filed three alleged 311 complaints about loose goats on the streets of Boston, except, as 311 noted in closing a complaint with the above photo of a "wet and smelly" goat allegedly at Chestnut and Brimmer streets on Beacon Hill, that's not Chestnut and Brimmer streets on Beacon Hill. Read more.

By adamg - 11/2/23 - 2:27 pm

A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about the fresh "White Power" and swastika painted on the pathway near the Frances Appleton footbridge - the one near the Longfellow. The swastika was painted backwards.

By adamg - 9/23/23 - 2:54 pm
Logo of the former Boston Club

At one time, the building was the Boston Club.

Earlier this month, the Unification Church sold the 46 Beacon St. residence and former club it had owned since 1976 to a pair of local developers, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.

By adamg - 9/7/23 - 11:27 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports on plans for a proposed Nite Life Cafe at 89 Charles St. on Beacon Hill - and reminds us that that's the same name as a Hanover Street joint where two men were murdered as they tried to rustle up bail money for Joe "The Animal" Barbosa in 1966.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 10:40 am
Malfunctioning gas lamp on Beacon Hill

The nerve of John Kerry living a couple blocks from this busted gas lamp.

An outraged citizen who lives in Dorchester files a 311 complaint about the 311 complaint somebody else filed about a gas lamp on Revere Street on Beacon Hill that is not working correctly: Read more.

By adamg - 8/29/23 - 9:44 am
New bright-yellow CARS ONLY sign being installed at Storrow Drive entrance

Photo of new signs going up by DCR.

DCR announced yesterday it's replacing the dark CARS ONLY signs at ramps to Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive with glaring yellow in-your-face CARS ONLY signs. Read more.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 9:51 pm

Steve Cooper posts video of one store owner running across Charles Street to rip the spray paint out of the hand of a daylight tagger (audio is NSFW).

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 3:52 pm
James Schaff

The Beacon Hill Times reports four successful break-ins and one failed attempt this past weekend along Charles Street; quotes one business owner who no longer feels safe on the street after moving there from Newbury Street. Read more.

By adamg - 8/17/23 - 10:03 am

And the Beacon Hill Times was there.

Durkan was elected to finish the term of Kenzie Bok, who left to become the new head of the BHA. Durkan will have to run again in November to win her own two-year term.

By adamg - 8/9/23 - 1:52 pm

City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 10:14 am

Boston Police report arresting a man they say was packing saleable amounts of fentanyl while checking door handles along Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill Sunday night. Read more.

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