Fenway Health posted the news today: The Boomerangs shops in Jamaica Plain, the South End and Central Square will be closing in June - and have already stopped accepting donations. Read more.
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By adamg -
4/30/24 - 11:18 pm
The Arnold Arboretum is blooming up a storm this week. Even a number of the lilac bushes have exploded in flowers. Read more.
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 11:02 pm
Kim Tunnicliffe reports she was laid off from WBZ Newsradio today "due to corporate budget cuts." She'd been there for 26 years.
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 9:39 pm
Starer captured by officer's body-warn camera in the process of hurling punch.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland, formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital, admitted today she rushed a line of cops in the Capitol and punched one as she screamed "fucking bitch!" at her on Jan. 6. Read more.
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 3:06 pm
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced today that his office will not be bringing charges against a woman who, at some point between 1982 and 2011, had five babies with the same man. They gave one up for adoption, the other four wound up frozen in a freezer in her South Boston condo. Read more.
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 2:38 pm
HoofbeatsEqualZebra lives on Fairmount Hill, just perfect to catch all the sound from the train yards and tracks of Readville, including the now infamous 22-minute stuck-on-blast hornshow late in the evening of April 16. He even recorded part of it (only 40 seconds, but for full effect, just let it keep looping for 22 minutes).
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 1:57 pm
A man busy barging his way through a crowd at Scorpion Bar on Seaport Boulevard in the Seaport one December night pulled a gun from his waistband, pointed it at a man who objected to getting shoved and warned him "I could kill you right now if I wanted to," police and bar managers told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 11:50 am
Rendering by David Choi showing the rear and front views (the right one shows the tree from the front, not the building on fire).
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-unit residential building at 72 Hyde Park Ave. in Forest Hills that preserves a large, 150-year-old oak tree on the site. Read more.
By adamg -
4/30/24 - 9:41 am
Boy, it sure rained buckets early this morning, huh? In case you managed to sleep through it all, you could still get a feel for just how much rain fell inside Ruggles station, where Handmaid captured some of the many fine barrels the T put in to capture all that water inside the station.
By adamg -
4/29/24 - 10:05 pm
A consultant's recorder at the Readville yard used by CSX last year.
Frustrated residents from Readville, Dedham and Milton told the MBTA and state Rep. Rob Consalvo (D-Hyde Park) this evening they are fed up with the overnight vibrations, humming and train horns from Readville's two train yards that they say have especially bedeviled them since 2020. Read more.
By adamg -
4/29/24 - 1:42 pm
Rendering of new pumps off Kenton Road; current garage is where the shrubs are.
Hatoff's, where gas is gas at 3440 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain, has filed plans with ISD to add eight more gas pumps - and opening access to them from Kenton Road. Read more.
By adamg -
4/29/24 - 11:36 am
A group of Rockport residents yesterday filed a federal lawsuit against the way their town is planning on moving forward with rezoning to comply with a state mandate to increase allowable housing density near MBTA stations (federal courts let people file suits even on Sundays). Read more.
By adamg -
4/29/24 - 10:23 am
Some things don't change much: The steepleless King's Chapel at Tremont and School streets today looks pretty much like it did back in 1800, when this engraving was made (click that link to see Tremont Street from Court Street to the long gone Carver Street).
Compare to the view from last year: Read more.
By adamg -
4/28/24 - 9:34 pm
Today was the annual Japanese festival on Boston Common. As you might expect from his user name, Aviation Librarian was particularly drawn to the Japan Airlines display, where you could learn how to make an origami airplane and how to taxi a JAL 787 across a tarmac.
By adamg -
4/28/24 - 12:11 pm
A man who was charged in Dorchester court in March with raping three underage teens was arraigned last week on additional charges, including child rape, videoing the girls in the act and forcing them to sell drugs for him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg -
4/28/24 - 11:45 am
Early risin' Matt Frank caught the moon while on the hunt for a cold brew in Chelsea's Prattville about an hour before sunrise this mornin'.
By adamg -
4/27/24 - 10:04 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a bunch of birds at Millennium Park yesterday, including this l'il plumper, otherwise known as a palm warbler.
And there's this common grackle, looking like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or, well, anywhere else: Read more.
By adamg -
4/27/24 - 9:02 pm
Victim identified as George Deeble, 42, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Fremont Street around 4:45 a.m. Read more.
By adamg -
4/27/24 - 1:27 pm
The FCC says it's grown tired of a man it says has been running an illegal radio station via transmitters in Mattapan, Randolph and Brockton for nearly two decades, so it's now proposing to fine him $597,775 in an attempt to get him to stay off the air. Read more.
By adamg -
4/27/24 - 12:01 pm
A federal judge yesterday sentenced a former State Police lieutenant to five years in federal prison and ordered him to pay $508,000 in restitution, fines and fees for approving they way he controlled bogus overtime payments to troopers - including himself - in the scandal-plagued traffic-enforcement unit, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
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