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By adamg - 3/28/24 - 1:47 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man for peering into windows on Donnybrook Road and a few blocks away on Beechcroft Street, both in Brighton - and trying to enter one of the residences. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 1:23 pm

Mayor Wu said today she will seek state legislation that would let the city tax owners of commercial and industrial property at a higher rate for four years, should official assessments being conducted this year show a precipitous drop in the assessed value of downtown office space in particular due to work shifts caused by the pandemic. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 11:50 am
John Tyler

The Boston Licensing Board voted today to set a revocation hearing in six months for the liquor license John Tyler holds for a space at 154 Maverick St., but said they are more hopeful this time than the last time they threatened him with revocation, last August, because he has letters of intent from two possible operators that could, finally, keep the place open longer than a couple months. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 11:06 am

The Boston Licensing Board voted today for a three-day license suspension at the Silhouette Lounge, 200 Brighton Ave. in Allston, but to hold that in abeyance for six months, after BPD licensing cops found five people under 21 drinking - three of them just 19. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 10:48 am

The Boston Licensing Board today granted a food-serving license to Cacao, 570 Columbus Ave. in the South End. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/24 - 9:37 am

The Crimson reports the university, after long and careful consideration of the sort only Harvard can mount after ten years of criticism, has "removed the human skin binding from a book held in Houghton Library and apologized for 'past failures in its stewardship of the book'." Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 9:50 pm

Boston Police report arresting an East Boston man on charges of armed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon not long after an attack on Border Street near the Umana School in East Boston yesterday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 5:33 pm

The Boston City Council today approved a measure to set up a planning department as the first major step towards abolishing the BPDA and giving the mayor and the council - and residents more of a direct say in how Boston grows. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 2:59 pm

Three entrepreneurs hoping to replace the old Ashmont Grill at 555 Talbot Ave. at Dorchester Avenue with a seafood restaurant say they could begin "soft opening" next month, with a more formal grand opening in May. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 1:08 pm
Giselle Byrd, executive director of Theater Offensive, addresses councilors

Giselle Byrd, executive director of Theater Offensive, addresses councilors.

City councilors voted unanimously today to support the trans community in Boston and across the country on Sunday's Transgender Day of Visibility. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 11:59 am

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a food-serving license to Fatima and Mahmood Ibrahim to open a 40-seat Middle-Eastern fusion restaurant at 115 Salem St. in the North End. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 9:27 am
Truck blocking Eden Street in Charlestown

What's a milkman to do?

A distraught citizen filed a 311 complaint this morning about the block blocking truck on Eden Street in Charlestown this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/24 - 9:20 am

The Boston Sun captures the moment when a Boston animal-control officer captured a coyote on Anderson Street for relocation to someplace a bit less urban; reports the sight of the beast startled even grizzled Beacon Hill residents who had grown used to other forms of wildlife, such as turkeys and owls.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 9:54 pm

The State House News Service reports on the possible sale to OptumCare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which already runs for-profit physician centers in Massachusetts.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 6:19 pm
Purity Supreme shopping cart still out and about

Rob Colonna spotted this Purity Supreme shopping cart outside the Quincy Elementary School in Chinatown today. The last Purity Supreme closed in 1997.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 4:30 pm

Lawyers for Civil Rights and the law firm of Fick & Marx today announced a $4.7 million settlement of the civil-rights lawsuit they had filed on behalf of Hope Coleman, who called 911 to request an ambulance to transport her son to a hospital to get treatment for his mental illness, but who was instead fatally show by Boston Police officers outside his home on Oct. 30, 2016. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:39 pm

Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:05 pm

A South Boston man was arrested yesterday for his alleged role in the murder of Curtis Effee, 41, outside a Geneva Avenue apartment on Dec. 30. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 2:45 pm

A Southborough law firm that says it used to defend troubled Steward Health Care against lawsuits involving employment discrimination and violations of the state consumer-protection law yesterday sued the company for not paying its bills. Read more.