Cambridge firefighters responded to MIT's Building 18 at 21 Ames St. after hydrogen burst into flames inside a hood shortly before 12:30 p.m. Read more.
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By adamg -
11/20/24 - 3:37 pm
The City Council today rejected a resolution by Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) calling on the state to take over the city election department because of Election Day problems that included numerous precincts across the city running out of ballots. Read more.
By adamg -
11/20/24 - 3:05 pm
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the landlord of the defunct Sons of Boston/Loyal 9 buy its liquor license as it looks for a more food-oriented restaurant operator to re-open the troubled space. Read more.
By adamg -
11/20/24 - 2:15 pm
Cambridge Day reports a man was shot several times around 12:45 a.m. in the Port neighborhood.
By adamg -
11/20/24 - 12:02 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court today overturned the convictions of a man for a murder on Deering Road in Mattapan in which he drove the killer - who has never been found or publicly identified - to and from the scene. Read more.
By adamg -
11/20/24 - 10:37 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved a billboard company's plan to replace the rusted old billboards down the hill from the Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine on Rte. 1A in East Boston with a double-sided electronic signboard, after hearing from residents and elected officials that the plan would remove a local eyesore and help fund the religious order that owns the property. Read more.
By adamg -
11/19/24 - 7:17 pm
Parts of the South End and nearby areas subject to climate-resilience review. Source.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a non-profit group's plans to convert a Shawmut Avenue office building into affordable apartments because it would have one apartment on the first floor despite being in Boston's coastal flood resilience overlay district, where residences are supposed to be higher than that in anticipation of flooding as sea levels continue to rise and storms become more fierce. Read more.
By adamg -
11/19/24 - 2:41 pm
Benjamin captured by surveillance cameras at Downtown Crossing and at JP store.
A federal judge last week sentenced Royal Benjamin, 64, to five years in prison for robbing a phone store at gunpoint in Jamaica Plain last year - after the clerk refused to buy the two pairs of new Puma sneakers Benjamin carried in, which he'd acquired by robbing somebody at the Downtown Crossing T station. Read more.
By adamg -
11/19/24 - 12:38 pm
Inside Higher Education reports the university is blaming the recent strike by existing graduate students for making its programs too expensive to run.
[T]he programs not accepting Ph.D. students for next academic year are American and New England studies, anthropology, classical studies, English, history, history of art and architecture, linguistics, philosophy, political science, religion, Romance studies, and sociology.
By adamg -
11/19/24 - 12:22 pm
Rendering by Anthony Pisani.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by serial North End restaurant owner Frank DePasquale to add a second floor to the vacant strip of storefronts on Cross Street between Hanover and Salem street so he can open a series of businesses keyed to Italian culture - including a cooking school to be run with an existing culinary institute in Italy, aimed at both people looking at restaurant careers and residents and even elementary-school students who just want to learn more about Italian cooking. Read more.
By adamg -
11/19/24 - 9:59 am
Cara Wehmhoefer reports she pulled into the parking lot on Enneking Parkway in Stony Brook Reservation - the one across from the baseball field - yesterday and saw a chicken that had apparently already crossed the road. And then she called Boston Animal Care and Control: Read more.
By adamg -
11/18/24 - 10:39 pm
An elderly couple at home on 35 Dennison St. in Roxbury were attacked by one of their four dogs, which mauled the woman so badly she was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries to her arm, around 4:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg -
11/18/24 - 9:29 pm
BostonTimelapse looked out of his South Boston window towards the Blue Hills Reservation around 7:50 tonight and saw the red-hued smoke from brush fires in the park. He reports that an hour later, the fires, or at least the glow from them, had died down. Read more.
By adamg -
11/18/24 - 2:05 pm
Mary Ellen was down in Plymouth this morning and spotted an eagle eating breakfast atop Flag Rock and a dolphin swimming nearby. And then a lobster boat puttered by.
More (caveat: some blood and guts): Read more.
By adamg -
11/18/24 - 10:30 am
Science IRL explains the ginormous Osage oranges (which are not actual oranges) that litter the ground at the Arboretum, waiting, like Puff for little Jackie Paper, for woolly mammoths that will never come again: Read more.
By adamg -
11/18/24 - 9:39 am
WBUR reports. Possible opponents include City Councilor Ed Flynn and Josh Kraft.
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