CommonWealth Beacon reports that the Wellesley Municipal Light Department, one of several town-owned electricity providers in the state, has teamed up with the former Joe-4-Oil on six 20-foot containers filled with large lithium-ion batteries that will charge at night, when wholesale electricity rates are lower, then discharge into the town power grid during peak daytime hours. Read more.
Students at both Curry College in Milton and Stoughton High School received text messages today telling them they've been selected to pick cotton "at the nearest plantation." Read more.
The Boston Sun reports a chain called First Watch, which offers blunchy stuff, is looking at space at 777 Boylston St. for its first Boston location. They'll be seeking a liquor license, because what's breakfast without a bloody Mary?
Crushed boat on right. Photo by BFD.
Rigging on a crane being used to lower a floating dock or "barge" into the water at the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina, 256 Marginal St. in East Boston, failed at 11:08 a.m., sending the dock slamming into the water - and a boat that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Boston Fire Department and the shipyard report.
Nobody was injured, but the shipyard reports it shut for the day, to await a second crane to help right things.
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a Cambridge man's first-degree murder sentence for strangling and then dismembering somebody in his apartment in 2015. Read more.
Proposed stairway at Ipswich Street.
The Boston City Council yesterday approved a change in a regulation designed to protect the Emerald Necklace from being overwhelmed by tall buildings so that a developer can build a 28-story, 400-unit apartment building at 2 Charlesgate West, next to a little used portion of the Emerald Necklace along the Bowker Overpass. Read more.
Mary Ellen watched a young deer yesterday morning getting something to drink in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, along with some ducks and some tires.
Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man they say repeatedly stabbed another man after a fight that may have started in a liquor store at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Warren Street in Brighton shortly before 10 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
Myron Freeman captured the sunset from Vassar Street at MIT this evening.
When Boston Police announced the arrest of a woman charged with stealing $4,800 of stuff from the Prudential Center Lululemon on Saturday, they gave her name as that of a 37-year-old Ipswich woman. Read more.
The Trump fan who'd been beaming his logo on the Hanson town water tower only to have the town bring in an even more powerful white spotlight to drown it out was back at it again tonight after he noticed the town had removed its spotlight, so the town hauled it back and turned it on again.
In a statement tonight, Town Administrator Lisa Green said: Read more.
Eight people were arrested yesterday following a Monday raid at a condo at 231 West Newton St., the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Louijeune calling for a hearing and soon.
Both Secretary of State William Galvin and the Boston City Council decided today to investigate how precincts across the city ran out of ballots and numerous other ways voters had obstacles placed in the way of casting their ballots, from one polling place not having any working lights to voters with disabilities being refused access to handicap parking spaces at another. Read more.
Drew Starr asks:
Where's a good spot within say half an hour's drive (give or take) from the Pru where I can just stare into nature for awhile. Somewhere green with running water that's accessible enough with a mildly janky ankle?
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a man's conviction on a count of illegal possession of a firearm, because the stun gun police found in his trunk looks nothing like a gun as currently defined by state law. Read more.
A judge today agreed to let the Department of Correction force a feeding tube up the nose and then down the throat of a convicted 70-year-old murderer on a hunger strike, but said he will give the inmate a chance to explain why he should be allowed to continue refusing all but small sips of water at a hearing next week. Read more.
WCVB is tracking the numbers for the five statewide ballot questions.
The Boston Election Department has numbers for Boston-specific numbers for both ballot questions and elected offices.
Victim identified as Jashaun Smith, 45, of Dorchester.
A man was shot in the chest on Michigan Avenue near Old Road in Dorchester shortly before 8:05 p.m. Read more.
Once people in the line outside the Bates got in, they got to stand in another line. Photo by Jessica Burko.
Update: At 7:36 p.m., the Boston Election Department reported that several precincts across the city had run out of ballots. Department said anybody in line at 8 would be allowed to vote.
Around 5:10 p.m., voting came to a halt at ward 18, precinct 10 at the Bates School in Roslindale: Poll workers had run out of ballots to give to voters. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting one of two men they say ran from officers investigating reports of men with guns behind the Joseph Lee K-8 School on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester after the start of the school day Monday morning. Read more.
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