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By adamg - 9/18/24 - 10:44 am
Associated Press reports the Secretary of State's office at Ashburton Place was one of 15 elections offices across the country targeted by somebody who sent powder-filled packages to them. The one here was intercepted by postal inspectors; in other states, the powder turned out to be flour.
By adamg - 9/8/24 - 10:14 am
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 1:20 pm
After a man was stabbed in Downtown Crossing yesterday, City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) called on the city to end all organized events on the Common: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 10:49 am
Turkey. Grass. Sidewalk.
Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).
By adamg - 8/5/24 - 10:23 am
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the King and I, which had been serving Thai food at 145 Charles St. on Beacon Hill for more than 40 years, closed a couple days ago.
By adamg - 7/22/24 - 2:48 pm
Mark Garfinkel captured the box truck emblazoned with giant lobster claws whose driver ignored onramp warning signs and so slammed into a Storrow Drive bridge today.
By adamg - 7/15/24 - 12:02 pm
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mary Ames today sentenced former assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Gary Zerola to 5 to 10 years in state prison following his conviction last month for raping a woman in her Beacon Hill apartment in 2021.
Zerola, whom People magazine once declared one of America's most eligible bachelors when he worked as an assistant DA in Suffolk and Essex counties back at the turn of the century, had either been found not guilty or had charges dropped in several earlier sexual-attack cases.
By adamg - 7/7/24 - 12:55 pm
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about BTD's callous disregard for Beacon Hill residents by refusing to send in a squadron of ticket writers to ding people parking illegally on Brimmer Street to attend Sunday services at an unspecified church on Mt. Vernon Street (Church of the Advent?): Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/24 - 6:37 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Gary Zerola, 52, of Salem, of raping an intoxicated, sleeping woman in her Beacon Hill apartment in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/13/24 - 11:28 am
The Boston Sun reports there'll be a celebration at 11 a.m. for the annual first spritzing from the spray pipe.
By adamg - 6/11/24 - 7:58 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the June 22 end of Savenor's on Charles Street. The Harvard Square outlet will remain open.
By adamg - 6/6/24 - 12:19 pm
A Level 3 sex offender with a record that includes other violent crimes was arrested last week on charges he pummeled another man in the head badly enough on May 23 that passing motorists called 911 about a person covered in blood, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 6/6/24 - 10:48 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved the replacement of Bin 26 Enoteca, 26 Charles St. on Beacon Hill with a new restaurant serving food its attorney says will be based on "the rich culture and cuisine of the Basque region of northern Spain," from the Pyrenees mountains to the Bay of Biscay. Read more.
By adamg - 5/21/24 - 11:23 am
A roving UHub photographer spotted this guy slowly driving around the Common this morning, reports the guy has been circling Beacon Hill for a couple months now.
By adamg - 5/14/24 - 8:58 pm
Passerby took this photo of the mangled bike still by the side of the road about 25 minutes later.
A woman bicycling through Charles Circle at Cambridge and Charles streets was hit by the driver of a dump truck who kept going - until he was flagged down by state troopers around 8:30 a.m. yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/6/24 - 10:45 am
The annual Big Day Boston bird watch in Boston Proper on Saturday ended with 66 species of birds spotted from the Public Garden to Boston Harbor, including one bald eagle competing with Hitchcockian numbers of gulls to gulp down some herring.
By adamg - 5/2/24 - 2:04 pm
Where a brick used to be.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation on West Cedar Street on Beacon Hill: Read more.
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