Somebody called in a bomb threat to the Somerville central library on Highland Avenue shortly before 2 p.m - the scheduled start of a drag-queen story hour, which was then cancelled as police combed the building for a bomb that didn't exist. Read more.
The South Boston Lithuanian Citizens Association yesterday asked a judge to deny a request by two neighbors that he shut it down immediately, saying that even if they could make the case that events and patrons at the group's West Broadway home were excessively noisy and rowdy - which it says they can't - the harm to the association would far outweigh any problems the couple is having. Read more.
Boston and State Police and Boston EMTs responded to Morton Street near Shattuck Hospital on a report of a young child in a car who had stopped breathing around 8 p.m.
WHDH reports an off-duty nurse also stopped to render assistance. The child began breathing again as police blocked off Morton Street and the Arborway to clear the way for the ambulance to get to Children's Hospital.
The Huntington News reports the four grad students, all of whom live off campus, were recently diagnosed and are now isolating.
Northeastern requires inoculation against the communicable disease or proof of previous infection for all students, but just in case, campus health services will be offering shots next week.
The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.
Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.
The annual Roslindale Parade kicks off at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Roslindale Square for the annual walk down Belgrade Avenue.
Streetsblog Mass reports the driver who hit and killed John Corcoran on a pedestrian/bicyclist path next to Memorial Drive has had his license suspended during an investigation but has yet to be charged with anything: Read more.
A San Francisco man was arrested yesterday on charges he sent several voice-mail messages to two companies, one in Somerville, one in Cambridge, that he was furious at them and was planning to head over with an AK-47 and a handgun with a silencer and mow down everybody he can. Read more.
Two of the many sights you can get to on the El.
Before the MBTA, before even Charlie got stuck on the MTA, there was the Boston Elevated Railway Co., the El, a private company formed out of streetcar, bus and, yes, underground subways in the Boston area. Read more.
The Chelsea Record reports the city Planning Board has approved a proposed industrial-strength battery complex on Eastern Avenue that will use two floors of batteries to store electricity for the local grid for times when it just needs some more juice. Flatiron Energy's proposal now goes to the city zoning board. Read more.
Boston Police alert us that they, BFD, Boston EMS and mall security will conduct "a full scale training exercise" at the South Bay Mall at 5 a.m. on Sunday and so you shouldn't be alarmed at what you might see or hear should you pass by the mall then - or hear alarming calls on the local scanner channels.
An annoyed resident files a 311 complaint about the roadwork at Centre and Allandale streets, which aside from being a key chokepoint during the commute, leads to the Faulkner's main entrance: Read more.
Gov. Healey announced today that Nibi the beaver is safe to stay with the Chelmsford wildlife rehabbers who have raised her since she was just a wee nibbler, ordering MassWildlife not to make good on its plot to force a two-year-old with no wilderness experience to survive on her own: Read more.
Update: Association replies.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge holds a hearing tomorrow afternoon on a request from Adam and Shelby Burns, who live behind the South Boston Lithuanian Citizens Association on West Broadway for a temporary restraining order that would effectively shut the club down as they pursue the suit they filed today over alleged noise, rowdiness and harassment by the club, its managers and its patrons. Read more.
A Boston University graduate student today filed what she hopes will be a class action against the school for what she charges is the haphazard system it now has for paying her and other graduate students for the work they do for professors. Read more.
Where's the bus stop? It's under the plants. Photo by City of Boston
Boston has covered 30 bus stops along the 28 route between Mattapan Square and Ruggles with planters as part of a three-year pilot that, if successful, could be expanded to bus shelters across the city: Read more.
The MBTA says it's once again running trolleys north of North Station, even as the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Transit Administration and the state Department of Public Utilities continue to investigate how the front wheels of one trolley came off the tracks Tuesday afternoon, sending six passengers to the hospital. Read more.
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