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Fentanyl dealer took a break to check car door handles on Beacon Hill, police say

By adamg - 8/7/23 - 10:14 am

Boston Police report arresting a man they say was packing saleable amounts of fentanyl while checking door handles along Myrtle Street on Beacon Hill Sunday night. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: My favorite trash receptacle is gone

By adamg - 5/13/23 - 11:21 am
Where the trash can used to be

Where the trash can used to be.

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about the disappearance of a trash receptacle at Myrtle and Anderson streets on Beacon Hill: Read more.

When William Hurt altered his states in the basement of Harvard Medical School

By adamg - 3/13/22 - 10:00 pm

Actor William Hurt died today at 71.

In 1980, in his first film role, he starred in Ken Russell's "Altered States," playing a researcher who tampers with the fundamental forces of nature, in the basement of Harvard Medical School. According to Movie-Locations.com, he and his wife (played by Blair Brown) lived at 108 Myrtle St. on Beacon Hill, and returned from a trip to Mexico via Logan Airport.

Beacon Hill street turns into raging torrent after breaks water valve

By adamg - 9/21/21 - 9:15 am
Beacon Hill street turned into torrent

Photo by BFD.

BWSC reports it had already shut off water in the area of Myrtle and Hancock streets for some repair work overnight when a contractor "broke a gate valve" at Hancock and Myrtle streets around 12:30 a.m., briefly creating a roaring river, complete with waterfalls. Read more.

Utility pole surrenders early to gravity in Jamaica Plain

By adamg - 4/13/20 - 12:22 pm
Downed power line

Matthew Christensen reports a power pole, and presumably the power it carried, came down sometime before noon today on Myrtle Street, just behind the Centre Street post office in Jamaica Plain.

Signs, tarp now ward kids away from blazing-hot metal turtle in Beacon Hill playground until a shade structure can be installed

By adamg - 6/11/19 - 12:41 pm

With Myrtle the Turtle now temporarily clothed in a blue tarp, the Boston Parks Department reports it is has asked an outside design firm to design a more permanent shady thing to keep the statue from becoming a kid-burning heat trap again. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: The kid-burning Myrtle the Turtle of Beacon Hill needs to go

By adamg - 6/10/19 - 1:04 pm
City workers taping off hot turtle at Myrtle Street playground

Boston firefighters tape off Myrtle.

A concerned citizen watched city workers tape off a metal turtle in the middle of the Myrtle Street playground on Beacon Hill today following earlier complaints the thing - installed just last month - is burning kids who made the mistake of actually sitting on it. But all the tape in the world marked "COLD" won't actually cool down the sun-concentrating turtle for good and the resident filed a 311 complaint to request that the city: Read more.

Doggedly guarding a Beacon Hill storefront

By adamg - 9/1/15 - 11:45 am
Dog on Beacon Hill in Boston

See it larger.

Zinnia shows us the hound in front of Beacon Hill Plumbing and Heating on Myrtle Street.

Bonus fun photo: The dog is also in the Google street view of the storefront.

Hmm, you don't think they took the Red Line, do you?

By adamg - 1/14/11 - 6:28 pm
Perkins and Tierney

An alleged pair of lunkheads managed to steal an ATM from a Beacon Hill pizza place early this morning and lug it back to South Boston - only to promptly get arrested - officials say.

Gerald Perkins, 37, and William Tierney, 24, were arraigned today in South Boston District Court on charges of receiving stolen property, breaking into a depository and breaking and entering, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Tierney was also arraigned on charges of possession of burglarious tools and possession of a Class B substance - the DA's office says police found about 30 Gabapentin painkilling pills.

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