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Out-of-state sub shop opening up next to out-of-state pizza place in Brighton

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 1:06 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Jersey Mike's Subs is opening up at 466 Washington St., right next to a Domino's.

Raccoons take up residence in Kendall Square

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 12:55 pm

Ama Wild has been getting up early to video the raccoons of Kendall Square, including this one, who seems to have taken up residence in a wall: Read more.

Grove Hall getting some new one-way streets as part of plan to slow traffic and reduce crashes

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 12:18 pm

State Rep. Liz Miranda reports that over the next two to three weeks, city crews will be converting several two-way streets into one-way streets in the Grove Hall area as part of an overall plan to reduce crashes, especially involving pedestrians, by doing what speed-limit signs don't: Force drivers to slow down. Read more.

Entering one Bay Village cabaret will soon be a bit of a drag without a vax card

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 10:37 am

Jacques Cabaret announced yesterday the delta variant has made it change its admission policy, starting Aug. 6: Read more.

School-bus fight on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain sends two cops, student to hospital

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 10:17 am

WBZ reports on the incident this morning.

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Dorchester teen arrested in Roslindale for Back Bay phone robbery

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 10:14 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old from Dorchester on charges he rode his scooter up to a woman walking along Marlborough Street between Fairfield and Gloucester streets, grabbed her wrist, took her phone, then sped off, shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Vietnam memorial in the Fenway defaced

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 9:58 pm

Defaced Vietnam memorial in the Rose Garden

Update, Friday: Crews have started cleaning the memorial.

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the vandalism to the Vietnam War memorial in the Fenway Rose Garden.

BPS students will still have to wear masks this fall, Janey says

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 8:05 pm

WBZ reports.

Man with connections to group whose standoff shut Rte. 128 for several hours hopes to go to trial next week with lawsuit claiming his earlier arrest for a traffic stop involved genocide

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 5:30 pm

Trial is set to start Wednesday over a multi-million-dollar federal lawsuit a Lowell man filed against a Lowell police officer over the way he was arrested for negligent operation and resisting arrest in 2019 - but first the judge in the case will ask prospective jurors whether they feel they can be impartial in a case brought by a man believes he "is a Moorish American national not fully subject to the laws of the United States." Read more.

Guess there's a reason they call it a VW Bug

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 4:02 pm

Spotted on Broadway in Somerville: A Coronamobile

Or is it the return of the Toyota Corona? In any case, Gazoo's photo of a car parked outside Wally's Barber Shop on Broadway in Somerville today is sure to go viral.

Janey names two Latina education activists to School Committee

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 3:33 pm

Acting Mayor Kim Janey today announced she had appointed Rafaela Polanco Garcia and Lorena Lopera to the School Committee, replacing Alexandra Oliver-Dávila and Lorna Rivera, who resigned over the Westie-whites text messages last month. Read more.

Six-story residential building proposed off Harrison Avenue in Nubian Square

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 12:54 pm

Rendering by Hresko Associates.

A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a coin-op laundry on Taber St. at Harrison Avenue in Nubian Square with a six-story, 30-unit residential building. Read more.

Man loses arm in 95/128 ramp crash, troopers find it, rush it to hospital

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 11:44 am

State Police report a driver failed to navigate the sharp curve from the end of I-95 onto Rte. 128 north around 1:25 a.m., and had his left arm amputated during a crash that involved guardrails on both sides of the ramp. Read more.

Election roundup: Campbell hits Janey on Patrick Rose report; meet the 17 people running for at-large seats on the city council

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 11:17 am

Seems increasingly unlikely that either Andrea Campbell or Kim Janey will endorse the other should only one of them make it into the November final election: Read more.

Woman shot in the leg in Malcolm X Park

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 9:44 am

Evidence markers at the scene. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports a woman was shot in Malcolm X Park in Roxbury around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Possibly as many as 19 rounds fired in total, although only one bullet hit her.

Spilling some hot T on Causeway Street

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 9:18 am

Formerly flaming T at Tavern in the Square

Rob Baird watched this morning as firefighters doused the flaming T that used to help spell out "Tavern in the Square."

Firefighters didn't just spray water on the burning letter, though. They also checked to make sure the fire hadn't spread to the rest of the alphabet, as a roving UHub photographer shows us: Read more.

Man faces his first federal bank-robbery charge in 20 years

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 9:12 pm

A South Boston man arrested on charges he robbed the TD Bank branch across from Faneuil Hall in April now faces a federal bank-robbery charge, which could net him 20 years in prison in exchange for the $990 police say he made off with. Read more.

Satanists allowed to continue to press claim that the way the City Council picks clergy for invocations is unconstitutional

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 3:07 pm

Rabbi Barbara Penzner addresses Boston City Council

Today's council meeting opened with an invocation by Rabbi Barbara Penzner of Temple Hillel B'nai Torah in West Roxbury.

A federal judge ruled today that Salem-based Satanists can continue to press their claim that the way the Boston City Council picks clergy members to start its Wednesday meetings - but not them - violates the Constitution's ban on the establishment of religion. Read more.

Natick couple terrorized in eBay pig-mask campaign sue auction giant

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 1:01 pm

Bloody-pig-head mask and grief book, ordered on Amazon, not eBay, and sent to the couple.

Two Natick residents who found themselves under attack by a group of eBay executives and their underlings upset with what they wrote about the company say it's not enough that several of the conspirators have pleaded guilty - the company itself needs to pay for what happened to them. Read more.