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By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:58 am

City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 1:16 pm

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to allow a New York restaurant that serves cheeseburgers with a kimchi-infused topping and other "Korean fusion" dishes open an outlet in the Seaport, with a bar that will serve what its lawyer said would be an extensive list of soju and other Korean liquors. Read more.

By adamg - 1/28/24 - 6:04 pm

Around 5:30 p.m., the MBTA announced Red Line delays of up to 20 minutes due to an "unauthorized person" on the tracks. Said person is no longer on the tracks and service has resumed, the T says.

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 11:53 am

Transit Police report that around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, a man broke into one of the operator cabs on a Red Line train - but not the one the train's driver was using - and "hung his head out the window" while the train was in motion towards Andrew. Read more.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 2:29 pm

On the Channel explores the pothole that just keeps getting bigger on Thomson Place, an increasingly busy Fort Point Street because Boston Public Works won't fix it, not because the department is shirking its duties but because of the street's oddball status as a private way. With a detailed history of why the street remains a private way, going back to the turn of the 20th century.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:40 am

The MBTA first reported problems on the Red Line due to some vague track problem at Broadway, but now says you can blame the current delays on signal problems at Broadway.

By adamg - 1/17/24 - 12:53 pm

Around 12:45 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays while "personnel inspect the tracks at Andrew." Amy Clark reports the driver on their train was a bit more specific: Read more.

By adamg - 1/15/24 - 2:56 pm
Catholicism for Dummies on sale at the South Boston Walgreens

Eileen Murphy had to do a double take today when she saw what you can buy at the East Broadway Walgreens these days:

Can't say I ever expected to see "Catholicism for Dummies" at the Southie Walgreens.

By adamg - 1/11/24 - 9:34 am
Birds at dusk over Wormwood Park

The Fort Pointer watched starlings doing some synchronized flying over Wormwood Park in Fort Point at dusk the other day.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
Dark and stormy on the Charles

It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.

Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.

By adamg - 1/5/24 - 12:43 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports that Barbara Lynch has abruptly closed her Menton, Sportello and Drink outlets in Fort Point, blaming her landlord. Her other restaurants, all outside Fort Point, remain open.

Via Boston Restaurant Talk.

By adamg - 1/3/24 - 11:31 am
Josh Weinstein

Update: Approved.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the Quiet Few in East Boston's Jeffries Point open a similar establishment, to be called Small Victories, at 400 Dorchester St. in South Boston's Andrew Square, where Backyard Betty's was meant to go. Read more.

By adamg - 12/28/23 - 9:47 pm

Boston Police report arresting two men they say broke into the former St. Vincent Church on E Street last night in search of copper wiring and a man who broke into St. Monica Church on Old Colony Avenue early this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 12/24/23 - 10:39 pm

Live Boston has video of one of the two sheep that went on the lam in South Boston today, captured following "a short pursuit involving Boston Police officers and a 3-legged dog" on Preble Street.

Earlier:
Chicken on the grass, alas in Dorchester.

By adamg - 12/21/23 - 9:34 am

After protesters dumped the tea into the harbor 250 years ago, they tossed the chests it had been in into the harbor as well. J.L. Bell posts a copy of an account by Rev. Dr. John Prince of Salem, who watched the Tea Party and then returned to the wharf the next morning: Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 3:19 pm
Rainbow over Cambridge

Did you notice it briefly got lighter for a bit a little after 1? Alisa Bokulich looked out from her office at BU and captured the rainbow that sprang up over Cambridge before it got dark and stormy again.

David Fisher spotted it, too, from his aerie in the Seaport: Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 11:25 am
Rendering of proposed new Mary Ellen McCormack development

Rendering by CBT.

The BPDA board yesterday approved the first phase of a long-term re-do of Mary Ellen McCormack in South Boston, under which a developer working with the BHA will replace 529 antiquated BHA apartments and add 781 new apartments split between affordable and market rate. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 11:31 pm
Blue lights everywhere at West 1st and F

A sea of blue at West 1st and F. Photo by Kate Roberts.

State Police troopers chased a suspect in a Roxbury shooting last week and a possible South Shore incident tonight up Day Boulevard to Castle Island, then down East 1st Street, where the driver of the SUV he was in rammed a parked Boston Police cruiser in the area of O Street around 10:25 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/23 - 6:21 pm

Around 3:10 p.m., a man fell on the inbound Red Line tracks at Broadway. A rider reports two men jumped down on the track to try to get him off, but he wasn't moving. T workers and police were able to get him off the tracks and service resumed.

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