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By adamg - 10/25/23 - 2:44 pm

A disgruntled Boston City Council today approved a measure that will make it easier for police to sweep Mass and Cass and remove tents, with several councilors saying they doubt the measure will mean a long-term fix. Read more.

By adamg - 10/24/23 - 12:31 pm

Managers at restaurants in the South End and a Faneuil Hall-area hotel had to explain to the Boston Licensing Board today why they got caught with patrons chilling with unattended bottles of tequila in ice-filled buckets at their tables when neither have licenses for bottle service, but even if they did, Boston's not the sort of place where patrons are allowed to be alone with bottles of hard liquor. Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 3:44 pm
Chair space saver in the South End

Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni spotted this early space saver at Shawmut Avenue and Hanson Street in the South End today. Oh, wait, what's that? The South End is the one neighborhood where the city bans space savers? Are you going to tell steely South Enders they can't save a space - even if the leaves on local trees are still mostly green?

By adamg - 10/10/23 - 11:15 am

Boston Police report a man was stabbed outside of the Southampton Street shelter around 3:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/6/23 - 11:44 am
Where the  hornets are, circled

Hornet hive entrance circled in green.

Complaints that have been bubbling up in a South End Facebook group reached 311 today when a distraught resident filed a complaint about the chaos at the southeast corner of Washington Street at its intersection with East Springfield Street: Read more.

By adamg - 10/5/23 - 6:12 pm

The Boston Public Health Commission reports power went out at its Woods-Mullen Shelter on Massachusetts Avenue near Boston Medical Center around 3 a.m. and remains out as of this evening. Read more.

By adamg - 9/29/23 - 10:58 am

GBH reports on the end of a crisis for resident who are disabled or elderly and who couldn't get down the stairs from their apartments without help.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 11:26 am

GBH reports on an elevator that has now been out of service for nine days at the Ruth Lillian Barkley Apartments on Washington Street.

By adamg - 9/22/23 - 11:02 am

Jared reports that at 6:47 a.m., Boston University sent out text messages: Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 1:20 pm
Murphy makes her plea

Erin Murphy calls for immediate emergency declaration.

Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today urged her colleagues to tell the Boston Public Health Commission it should declare a formal state of emergency exists at Mass and Cass. Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 1:45 pm

Residents in four City Council districts have preliminary elections tomorrow to narrow the fields in the November elections to two candidates each. There is no preliminary for the four citywide council seats because there are eight candidates, all of whom will battle in November. Read more.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 3:13 pm

Boston Police report arresting three men after one allegedly pointed a gun at a worker behind the counter at Alex's Pizza, 1252 Washington St., shortly before 3 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 9:38 am

The Globe reports City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) had her phone taken during a mugging near Atkinson Street Saturday night as she walked around to get some first-hand Mass and Cass knowledge in advance of considering the mayor's proposal to make it easier to remove tents and other shelters there.

By adamg - 8/25/23 - 2:52 pm

The Suffolk County District Attorney's office yesterday moved to seize the 2017 BMW 750I it alleges a man sold crack out of at Mass and Cass and at the South Bay mall. Read more.

By adamg - 8/25/23 - 11:10 am
Wu announces new Mass and Cass initiative

Wu announces new initiatives at the Base on Shirley Street.

Mayor Wu and other officials today announced a second drive to rid Mass and Cass of the tents that have sprung up there again - coupled with new programs to get people into transitional housing and to quickly squelch the rise of new encampments elsewhere in the city. Read more.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 7:24 am

WFXT reports on the plan, which is not sitting well with more permanent South End residents.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 8:43 pm

Although Boston still wants to re-open the Long Island treatment campus and the state is planning a new recovery center at Shattuck Hospital, both are year's away, say Mass and Cass business owners and residents, who today pitched the idea of building a recovery campus at Widett Circle - the isolated collection of food-processing plants off I-93 that few had heard of until the failed 2024 Olympic group wanted to build a giant stadium there. WBZ reports.

By adamg - 8/17/23 - 8:58 am
Golden sunrise over the South End

"Pure magnificance!" Brooks Payne marvels.

By adamg - 8/13/23 - 1:32 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man they say tackled and beat a woman and tried to strip off her clothes - before a bystander rushed in to pull him off. Read more.

By adamg - 8/10/23 - 10:12 am

The state Department of Environmental Protection yesterday granted Boston the permit it needs to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which will let it re-open Long Island as a recovery and treatment campus. Read more.

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