Charlestown

A Boston-specific phobia

Ashley, who walks from her home in Charlestown to her job downtown, openly discusses her fear of dying by being run over by a Duck Boat:

... I guess one of the Super Duckboats would be slightly less mortifying because it is a lot more threatening and mutant looking and was probably previously used in warfare. I can only imagine the lengths my parents would go to to conceal the circumstances of my demise. ...

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Poolside

Stephanie Rogers discovers, falls in love with Clougherty Pool in Charlestown:

... My girlfriends and I brought our beach chairs and set up camp for a few hours of sunbathing and swimming. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon (especially if you smuggle in some sandwiches from Sorelle).

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Protesting Dick Cheney

Looks like some folks did show up to protest Cheney's visit, some in holiday-appropriate garb.

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At least there's something good about all this rain

Rainbow

Saul Blumenthal took this Zakim rainbow photo yesterday.

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Orange Line shut as train runs over woman

At Sullivan Square around 9 a.m.. Service has since been restored, according to mbta.com.

That makes three people hit by T trains in three days.

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Orange Line train kills woman Sullivan Sq.

Orange Line train kills woman in Sullivan Sq.
June 26, 2008 09:50 AM
By John Ellement, Globe Staff

A woman was killed this morning in the Sullivan Square Orange Line station, a Boston Fire Department Spokesman said.

Steve MacDonald said firefighters were called to the Charlestown station at 9:07 a.m. to investigate a report of a person underneath the northbound Orange Line train.

MacDonald said the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and that she was found underneath a six car train inside the station.

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Beat LA

Green bridge

Greg MacKay notices the Zakim Bridge is now decked out in Celtics green.

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Little Patriot

Tricornered

Faegirl took his picture at the Bunker Hill Day parade in Charlestown.

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A long way to fall

The Globe reports authorities think a body discovered at Boston Sand and Gravel is that of a man who abandoned his car on the ramp connecting the Tobin with the Zakim last night.

A spokesman for the Suffolk County DA's office says state police are looking at how the 44-year-old Chelsea resident wound up there, but that foul play is not suspected.

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