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By adamg - 6/29/24 - 2:04 pm

The state Department of Public Health reports an "international traveler" who passed through Logan Airport on his or her way from Dartmouth College to Amsterdam on June 22 "was present in public locations that could have resulted in exposure to other people." Read more.

By adamg - 6/29/24 - 12:50 pm

Rabbi Shlomo Noginski yesterday sued Khaled Awad, whom authorities say stabbed Noginski eight times as Noginski successfully managed to get the man away from children at a summer program at Shaloh House on Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton Center on July 1, 2021. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/24 - 5:18 pm
Aileen Montour and Gretchen Van Ness

Aileen Montour and Gretchen Van Ness, who helped shepherd the project for LGBTQ Senior Housing.

City and state officials joined with the LGBTQ community in Hyde Park today to formally open the new Pryde apartment building, with 74 "LGBTQ-affirming" apartments, the first such affordable building in New England, on the anniversary of the Stonewall riot and 20 years after Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/24 - 3:24 pm

Boston firefighters responded to the outbound side of the Jackson Square Orange Line station around 12:30 p.m. on a report of a person under the train. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/24 - 12:22 pm

Acklerley Communications of Massachusetts yesterday sold the small parcel where it had a billboard on Washington Street in Egleston Square to the city of Boston for $300,000, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/24 - 10:29 am

Boston yesterday announced it has hired three companies to roll out curbside EV chargers across the city - one to build chargers the city will own, the other two to build chargers they will own and maintain. Read more.

By adamg - 6/28/24 - 9:25 am

Boston University says it's going to be at least a couple years before it formally says what it's going to do with the parcel at the end of Ashford Street in Allston that it bought from City Realty this week.Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 5:06 pm

The Brookline Department of Public Health today urged parents to ensure their kids have been vaccinated against pertussis - and adults to get a shot if it's been more than ten years since their last one - after 15 cases of the illness, also known as whooping cough, were diagnosed this month, mainly in students at Brookline High School but also in one student at the Runkle School. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 12:51 pm
Rendering of 76 Ashford St

BU minds the GAP: Rendering of the building it could put up on Ashford Street.

Boston University yesterday paid $19.8 million to buy what is now a one-story warehouse and parking lot at 76 Ashford St. in Allston from City Realty, which won approval in September to put up a 17-story 254-unit apartment building there. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 11:36 am
Dyette in customized Reds jersey

Dyette in customized Cincinnati jersey, via US Attorney.

A federal judge yesterday sentenced Keiarri "Kemo" Dyette, 26, to 42 months in federal prison for his role in the Cameron Street gang, which included beating a member of the rival Wendover Street gang bloody with a gun and selling guns to a man who turned out to be working for the feds, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 9:48 am

Roslindaily is an Instagram feed of daily photos from a couple of Rozzident photographers.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 9:29 am

A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Nickoyan Wallace, 49, of first-degree murder for gunning down Ivanildo Barros on Park Street in Dorchester in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 11:14 pm

WFXT talks to a person who happened to be walking by the Squealing Pig on Smith Street around midnight and spotted a man inside, with the fire just starting.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 9:59 pm

At least three drivers got stuck in the raging floodwaters, well, deeper-than-it-looks lake that formed on Spring Street in front of the Star Market plaza in West Roxbury tonight. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 6:37 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Gary Zerola, 52, of Salem, of raping an intoxicated, sleeping woman in her Beacon Hill apartment in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 2:49 pm
Keryan

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by the owner of a Watertown restaurant to move into the Linden Street space where a violence-plagued hip-hop club has sat closed for the past two years. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 2:12 pm
Trolley with googly eyes makes the turn at Packards Corner

A couple of months ago, some T riders asked the T to slap some googly eyes on the front of Green Line trolleys. Today, the T gave the people what they want: Googly eyes on Green Line trolleys - if not all of them, at least five, now roaming around the Green Line, such as this crazy-eyed trolley making the crazy turn at crazy Packards Corner in Allston. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 1:59 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans for a three-stall food hall-ette where a Starbucks used to be at 45 Broad St. downtown. Read more.

By adamg - 6/26/24 - 1:43 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license for the city's third upscale Taco Bell, in what used to be a T-Mobile shop at 1084 Boylston St., just around the corner from Mass. Ave. Read more.