Rendering by McKay Architects.
A Burlington developer has proposed replacing a "run down" single-family house at 140 Wachusett St. in Jamaica Plain, between the Boston Teachers Union and Young Achievers Schools, with a 28-unit apartment building with 20 parking spaces. Read more.
A new group called Protect the Lincoln Forest launched itself early this morning when a member climbed up a tree on a quarter-acre site off Rte. 2 and created a "tree-sit" to protest an agreement between Cambridge and a Texas pipeline company to cut down at least 24 trees on a lot meant to protect a major Cambridge reservoir - so the company can park trucks and equipment there while it replaces a pipeline facility next door. Read more.
Updated, 9:40 a.m., Monday.
A man in a car was shot in the chest on the Arborway near Washington Street in Forest Hills around 10:20 p.m. Read more.
Hugmajest spotted our rare fly-in brown booby hanging out near Carson Beach with one of the local cormorants, in sharp contrast to yesterday's attempt by some of the meaner gulls to chase it off. Also note its feet are yellowish - you're thinking of blue-footed boobies, which are a different species altogether, one found in the eastern Pacific.
OK, rather than Detroit in The Heat Is On, we went with a local heat jingle.
Mayor Wu has declared a heat emergency for Boston Monday through Wednesday, with temperatures in the 90s and humidity bringing the "heat index" around or over 100 degrees. If you can't stay cool at home, there's a city mapping system to find chill zones near you - including community centers, libraries and splash pads.
Teddy Ventura poses with fish he caught using some ham from a Dunkin' Donuts sandwich in Turtle Pond.
Christine Ventura of West Roxbury and her son Teddy, 7, pulled over on Enneking Parkway yesterday to try some fishing off the dock at Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation - even though all they had for bait was some ham from a Dunkin' sandwich. Read more.
Transitadvocate highlights some of the trains on various lines out of South Station that were canceled yesterday because of "crew availability issues." Read more.
Boston Police report officers arrested a local man on armed-robbery charges for the way he tried and failed to hold somebody up at knifepoint at Massachusetts and Shawmut avenues around 5 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
Mary Ellen was among the bird enthusiasts who gathered on the beach between the Curley Community Center and Carson Beach today for a chance to photograph the brown booby that decided to head north for some time in the Hub.
The booby in action - look at that neck go: Read more.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Kobe Smith, 25, to 21 months in federal prison for his role in a gun-running gang that bought guns at an Alabama gun shop, then brought them up to Boston for sale on the street. Read more.
A man was ordered held in lieu of $2,500 bail at his arraignment today for the three dead dogs police found inside a U-Haul truck at 69 Edgewater Dr. in Mattapan around 9 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Their ingenious burning plot foiled, the assholes on somebody's porch on Tyndale Street at 2 a.m. on Thursday instead ripped the flag down, WCVB reports, adding somebody tried to pull the flag down the day before and when that failed, kicked the house.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Thomas Nee, one-time president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, to two years probation and ordered him to pay $16,151 restitution and $2,200 in fines and fees for his participation in the overtime scandal at the BPD evidence warehouse in Hyde Park. Read more.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute this week filed a "institutional master plan" for its proposed 14-story hospital where the Joslin Diabetes Center now sits. The 10-year development plan does not have detailed renderings of the new hospital - to be built as part of a new long-term agreement with Beth Israel Medical Center - but it does call for construction of new pedestrian bridges, including one that would span Brookline Avenue from the new building to Dana-Farber's current facilities. Read more.
A Boston board that oversees a federally mandated limit on the total number of parking spaces in Boston Proper voted last month to forbid any more parking at a lot between Hudson and Harvard streets in Chinatown, arguing the 30-space lot violates the parking cap. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the sign that used to tell people they couldn't park overnight along Denny and Springdale streets near McConnell Park in Dorchester, but which has acquired a new interpretation:
The sign use to say no parking after dark but it looks like it could say something different
A proposal to begin charging drivers a fee to come into downtown Boston will remain in committee as its sponsors consider what are turning out to be some possibly complex issues. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting three of the four suspects in the armed holdup of everybody inside Edward's Barbershop, 479 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Seven people face charges for an elaborate scheme that included two cars to hunt down and kill a woman in Roxbury, who, however survived getting shot twice outside the McDonald's at Warren and Dale streets around 8:30 p.m. on Nov 17, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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