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By adamg - 3/13/24 - 11:06 am

Gov. Healey said today she wants to issue automatic pardons to everybody ever convicted of misdemeanor marijuana-possession charges in Massachusetts. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:53 am
Revised rendering of Green Line facility

Updated rendering showing cafe.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Mario Signore to change his proposed three-story cannabis factory at 100 Hampden St. to include a ground-floor marijuana store and a separate cafe. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:27 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal next month considers an application for a marijuana grow facility and home-delivery center at 1457 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, where Party City and Chair Fair used to be. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 9:06 am
Rendering of proposed 500 Western Ave.

Rendering by Hendren Associates.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the owner of the former Irving gas station at 500 Western Ave. to replace it with a six-story, 116-unit apartment building that will feature a new vest-pocket park, new street trees and a parking garage that will include 64 metered parking spaces for use by the public, to replace the on-street spaces the city is planning to remove along Western Avenue to make way for dedicated bus and bicycle lanes. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 10:32 pm
Rendering of proposed 141 Addison St.

Rendering by Zephyr Architects.

In an unusual move, the Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 20-unit apartment building at 141 Addison St. in East Boston even though the BPDA has yet to sign off on the project. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 4:36 pm
Schematic of old convent building and extension behind it by Context

Schematic of old convent building and extension behind it by Context.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to rehab the former St. Matthew convent at 43-45 Stanton St. in Dorchester and add a four-story addition in its rear to create 14 condos. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 3:07 pm

DCR planners told the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association last night they hope to go out to bid this spring for a contractor to add traffic signals and do related intersection changes where Walter Street meets Centre Street in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 12:41 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a request from China Pearl, 9 Tyler St. in Chinatown for a live-entertainment permit, saying owner Brian Moy needs to first convince nearby residents the move won't mean extra late-night noise, crowd and safety issues in the tightly packed neighborhood. Read more.

By adamg - 3/12/24 - 9:55 am

The MBTA is blaming a faulty trolley for Saturday morning's derailment on the outbound B Line, rather than the track and other work that was completed just the day before: Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 10:06 pm

How deep is the pothole at Leon and Ruggles street? It's so deep one irate citizen filed a 311 complaint that references a late-20th-century philosopher: Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 8:44 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports that former US Attorney Rachael Rollins recently began work at Roxbury Community College, at least part time, to build a program to help the formerly incarcerated, although they didn't learn that from her:

Reached on her cell phone, Rollins said she did not want to be contacted and hung up.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:58 pm

A man was sliced in the arm and chest on Thetford Avenue at Evans Street shortly before 2:40 p.m., then ran all the way down to Washington Street - after accepting some towels from a utility worker - before police found him. Injuries not considered life threatening.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:53 pm

The bus driver suffered leg and hip pain in the crash at Wentworth Street and Claridge Terrace off Norfolk Street around 4:40 p.m. One child was also transported to the hospital for observation. Police summoned ISD to check the house's structural integrity.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 4:32 pm

Sen. Ed Markey announced today that the US Department of Transportation will kick in $335.4 million for the Allston I-90 Multimodal Project after all. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 1:08 pm
Ad for the Tremont Turkish Bath

1899 ad (source).

Long, long before the AMC Boston Common went up at the corner of Tremont and Avery streets, the site was the home of the Tremont Theatre, where an enterprising Swedish immigrant put in a swimming pool and a Turkish bath in the basement - open all night, at least for men. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 11:14 am

A federal judge last week sentenced Fernando Bost, 32, to 8 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing the RJ Smoke and Convenience Store at 844 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester on March 29, 2023 - just 35 minutes after he'd held up a store in Brockton. Read more.

By adamg - 3/10/24 - 10:29 pm
Mace man and Lysol lady on the Green Line

Mace man and Lysol lady, surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a man who maced numerous passengers on a Green Line trolley at Lechmere around 2:25 p.m. yesterday and a woman who sprayed Lysol into the eyes of a driver of a Green Line shuttle bus at Babcock Street around 11 p.m. on Feb. 21.

If either look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050, anonymously if you prefer.

By adamg - 3/10/24 - 6:50 pm
Word rocks at Jamaica Pond

Somebody left a bunch of small word rocks on top of one large rock near the Jamaica Pond boathouse.

By adamg - 3/10/24 - 1:13 am
Ajak and Keech

Ajak (l) and Keech discuss overthrowing the South Sudanese government with arms dealers who were really federal agents. From federal affidavit.

A native of South Sudan who allegedly had dreams of moving from Harvard's Kennedy School to the presidency of his homeland was arrested on Monday on charges he and an accomplice were planning to export enough anti-tank missiles, grenade launchers, automatic rifles and ammunition to take over the beleaguered nation. Read more.

By adamg - 3/9/24 - 11:03 pm

Not everything that goes wrong on the T is the T's fault, it seems. First it was the little duck and today, the T says, it had to shut the Orange Line between Forest Hills and Back Bay after an overhead Amtrak power line unspooled or snapped or something near Ruggles, causing problems for the neighboring subway line. Read more.