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By adamg - 4/25/24 - 1:24 pm

The new owner of 110 Canal St. near the Garden says it will soon file plans to turn the empty seven-story building into an 82-room hotel. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 12:11 pm

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Savannah Kinzer, fired from her job at the Cambridge Whole Foods in 2020, should be allowed to continue her wrongful-termination and discrimination suit against the company. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 11:00 am

The Boston Licensing Board this morning rejected a request from Red Line Pizza on Dorchester Avenue in South Boston's Andrew Square to offer take out until 2 a.m., citing complaints from residents and police about its repeated violations of its current 11 p.m. legal closing time. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 10:27 am

The MBTA reports delays on the Red Line due to signal problems at Broadway. Trains, the T advises, may stand by at stations, maybe go out for a bite to eat while the problem is worked on.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 9:43 am

NBC Boston reports Boston Police move in around 2 a.m. and dragged out students protesting the situation in Gaza and tents from Boylston Place. Emerson canceled classes for today. Some video.

Meanwhile, Harvard students are in their second day of an encampment in Harvard Yard. The school is barring non-Harvard people from the Yard.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 9:19 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on a remembrance in Fields Corner of "Black April" - when Saigon fell and thousands of people fled the Communists. Many of those refugees settled in the Dorchester neighborhood.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 8:32 am
Firefighters outside Henry's Market in Roslindale

See it larger. Photo by Scott Cluett.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to Henry's Market, 892 South St. in Roslindale for a fire shortly before midnight. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 10:38 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Xiaolei Wu to nine months in prison for reacting to a flier another Berklee student posted calling for democracy in their homeland by threatening her with death - maybe even by being eaten by a homeless person at South Bay - and by reporting her and her family to Chinese officials, including his mother, a government functionary. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 9:12 pm

State Police report somebody in a vehicle on the northbound side of I-93 in Braintree became so enraged enough by something somebody else did around 2:50 p.m. to get out a gun and fire it. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 5:41 pm

A fight in the library at TechBoston Academy, 9 Peacevale Rd. in Dorchester, ended when one student stabbed another, around 12:25 p.m., NBC Boston reports.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 4:53 pm
Interior of the mansion

Interior photos from commission report: But do they reflect current reality?

The wheels of history sometimes move slowly: The Boston Landmarks Commission is currently considering whether to designate the interior of the former Eben Jordan, Jr./Unification Church mansion at 46 Beacon St. as a landmark of local, state and even national importance based on a petition submitted in 1977. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 3:13 pm

WBUR self reports the NPR news station says two dozen employees have applied for buyouts and that the station plans to lay off seven and eliminate nine currently vacant positions, all by June, in an effort to cut $4 million from its budget due to a decline in sponsorships. Competing GBH is also looking at possible cuts.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 1:50 pm

The Boston Office of Nightlife Economy today announced $10,000 grants for groups and individuals to put on "nighttime activation" events to give non-sleepyhead Bostonians something fun and free to do after the sun goes down, between July and December. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 1:26 pm

Update: Approved, with a 9 p.m. closing time.

The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to approve a food-serving license for Middle Eastern-based Sofra Bakery, 210 North Harvard St. in Allston - directly across from a Dunkin' and around the corner from a Starbucks and a Swissbaker. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 12:12 pm

CommonWealth Beacon introduces us to Ian Cain of Quincy, who today formally announced his bid to win the Republican nomination to take on incumbent Elizabeth Warren this November. He's running against (so far), cryptolawyer John Deaton.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 11:59 am

Andrew Square residents, the local police district and elected officials all oppose efforts by the owner of Red Line Pizza, on Dorchester Avenue across from the Andrew Square T stop, to legally stay open for pick-up pizza until 2 a.m., saying it's become a "magnet" that attracts the homeless, drug users and people looking for a fight in a neighborhood that already has quite enough of that - as well as a generator of rat-summoning trash. Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 2:54 pm

Streetsblog Massachusetts reports on the cruiser crash Saturday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street, taking out a traffic light and damaging a hydrant, but not hitting anybody. The officer was on his way down Tremont to the Burger King, where other officers managed to arrest a man while he was still trying to hold the place up at gunpoint.

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 1:46 pm

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and a group of Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Dorchester residents said today they will continue their legal battle against plans by the city and a professional women's soccer group to remake White Stadium into a modern facility able to host pro soccer. Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 12:27 pm

A federal appeals court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by the sister of Juston Root, shot 31 times in 3 seconds by Boston and State Police officers along Rte. 9 in Brookline in 2020, ruling that the officers had more than enough reason to fear for their lives and the lives of nearby people, both because he had pulled what appeared to be a gun on officers outside Brigham and Women's Hospital and because when the officers approached they thought he was about to pull a gun on them. Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 11:35 am
A hypothetical Green Line trolley with googly eyes

Artist's representation.

Supposedly, there will be a march on Monday from Park Street to the MBTA headquarters in Park Square to demand the T put large googly eyes on the fronts of its trains. Read more.