Banker & Tradesman reports state environmental officials have given the OK for a $500-million, 700-MW battery-storage facility for energy from offshore wind farms on what is now a series of abandoned oil tanks along the Everett waterfront - the first part of a redevelopment plan by the Davis Cos. that would also include new housing and office space. Read more.
As promised in the morning by the National Weather Service, the smelly haze that settled in over the Boston area from brush fires along the North Shore lifted early this afternoon. But when Josh Bittker looked out of his Seaport window this afternoon, he could still see smoke rising from north of the city.
A Boston resident last week sued Pho Pasteur, 682 Washington St.. in Chinatown, for the way a meal there ended last month.
In a negligence suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Nathalie Murcia alleges she was finishing up a bowl of pho on Sept. 20 when she asked her server for some "fresh broth to go:" Read more.
An annoyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 7:52 a.m. about the striking Park Plaza workers, who now strike up the band, um, buckets and loudspeakers, starting at 7 a.m.: Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he held up a convenience store at Park and Norwell streets in Dorchester last Wednesday. Read more.
Where's the Tobin? Morning haze over Boston Harbor. Photo by Josh Bittker.
On both sides of the Charles, people called 911 to report the smell of smoke this morning, as bone-dry brush in greater Boston started flaming overnight. Read more.
Boston Police report looking for a man they say tried to stab a clerk at the Uphams Corner Market, 521 Columbia Rd., 521 Columbia Road in Dorchester, failed, then whacked him with a Hot Pocket.
Jessi Murder-y spotted this family that storrows together at yesterday's annual canine costume parade in Jamaica Plain.
Last year:
Roslindale's first storrowing.
New Flora Way sign at intersection with Walter Street.
Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents gathered with city and Harvard officials yesterday to dedicate the new name of the street that bisects the Arnold Arboretum, in honor of an enslaved woman who lived nearby. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a New Bedford man on charges he stabbed another man multiple times outside 474 Massachusetts Ave. in the South End Friday afternoon. Read more.
The Globe reports a federal judge yesterday sentenced Stash's owner Stavros Papantoniadis, 49, of Westwood, to 8 1/2 years in federal prison for his conviction in June on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor after a trial that included accounts of him bullying, beating and harassing his workers for years. Read more.
MassLive.com details the allegations against now suspended BPD officer Richard McDermott and BPHC security guard Luigi D’Addieco on charges they turned the basement of the storefront at 360B Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, which they'd originally leased to run an HVAC business, into an illegal nightclub. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 9-11 Holton St. in Allston around 10 p.m. for an attic fire that turned into a two-alarm blaze. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
A developer that proposed an apartment building on 142-146 St. Mary's Street, on the Boston side of the border with Brookline last year has submitted new plans that call for a slightly smaller building, but one with a pedestrian path running from the Fenway stop on the Green Line on one side of the building to Medfield Street on the other. Read more.
Hot off the presses: Zyber delivered Waterman News yesterday.
As a reporter, you know you've established a beat when people start e-mailing you tips.
Joseph Zyber is getting e-mail tips, four months after he started writing and publishing Waterman News, a weekly newspaper that covers his home street of Waterman Road in Roslindale. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted a different kind of creature on her morning walk around Millennium Park this morning: This little lost sheep. Little Bo Peep, or perhaps Shari Lewis, will find Lamb Chop on a railing along the lower path, just past the first bridge into the woods heading towards the kayak launch and the lower parking lot.
In an emergency Zoom meeting this morning, the City Council agreed to hold a public hearing before voting on a proposal to potentially increase taxes on commercial properties over a three-year period to help cushion the blow on residential property owners from expected large decreases in the value of downtown office buildings because many have higher vacancy rates as a higher percentage of workers continue to stay home in the aftermath of Covid-19. Read more.
A federal judge today sentenced a retired Boston Police captain to one year in prison and two years of probation and ordered him to pay $154,249.20 in restitution for participating and overseeing an overtime fraud scheme at the Hyde Park evidence warehouse for several years, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Boston City Council, which usually only convenes on Wednesdays, has scheduled a Zoom meeting for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow to consider asking the state legislature to let Boston increase the commercial-property tax rate over a three-year period. Read more.
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