State officials announced today they now have the money in hand for what could be a ten-year project to replace the current decrepit hulk of an overpass that connects Storrow Drive and the Fenway over part of the Emerald Necklace with more graceful roads - and new paths and parkland aimed at reconnecting the Emerald Necklace and the Esplanade, which were severed when the overpass went up over Charlesgate in the 1960s. Read more.
Scott gives us an aerial view of the Army Corps of Engineer's work to remove the reeds 'n' other weeds along the Muddy River on the Boston/Brookline line. Read more.
Artist's rendering of a Jamaica Plain stickleback.
Jovielle Gers's mural on a traffic-signal box at 3201 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain has depictions of four rare species in Massachusetts: A piping plover, a red-bellied cooter turtle, gerardia flowering plants and a tiny fish, known as the threespine stickleback, which has its only Massachusetts freshwater population in a small pond that feeds into the Muddy River in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted this juvenile yellow-crowned night heron in the Back Bay Fens, amazingly serene given what's going on right behind it: Read more.
Turlach MacDonagh was walking along the Riverway when he looked across the Muddy River and spotted these seemingly contradictory detour signs.
Earlier:
World-class signage at Logan.
Around 9:40 p.m. Boston firefighters found the driver on top of her car and got her out of the water.
Live Boston has the details on an overnight crash at Newbury Street and Charlesgate East.
Boston Fire Department divers got a man in his 30s out of the Muddy River at Charlesgate this morning, but he was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
New England Folklore recounts an incident on March 1, 1639, recorded by none other than Gov. John Winthrop, involving a "great light" floating over what is now the Boston/Brookline line that morphed into the shape of a pig before flying off in the direction of Charlestown.
Claire Blechman walked along the Muddy River in Brookline after the storm lightened up a bit.
The normally placid brook was not the only place to have flooding during the second storm round: Read more.
Ward's Pond is the small, hidden away pond across Perkins Street from Jamaica Pond on the JP/Brookline line. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted this wood duck near Leverett Pond up by Rte. 9 on the JP/Brookline line today.
She also spotted a green-winged teal at the pond today: Read more.
As you might expect, Mike Dukakis is a speaker at an MIT transit forum today. People of course wondered why he was sporting large bruises on his face and a bandage on the bridge of his nose. Cambridge City Councilor Jan Devereux, who posted a photo of the dented Duke, reports:
He fell picking up trash on the Emerald Necklace.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters recovered a body from the river near where it enters the Charles around 2:45 p.m.
Penny Cherubino went for a walk on the normally green grass along the normally brown Muddy River the other day.
Mary Ellen says it looked like she caught a wood duck in mid-sneeze the other day on the Jamaica Plain side of Leverett Pond.
Jef Taylor shows the salamander he found on the banks of Ward's Pond on the Boston/Brookline line a few days ago.
PRI interviews a Finnish landscape architect about everything that's wrong with the Emerald Necklace.
Ed. note: Interesting article, but it sounds like she doesn't know anything about the Muddy River reclamation project and didn't spend any time south of Rte. 9.
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