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Boston Latin School apologizes for student-written descriptions of two neighborhoods

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 10:13 pm

An attempt to teach eighth graders at Boston Latin School how to deal with stereotypes ended today with school officials apologizing to students, parents and school staffers from two heavily White neighborhoods. Read more.

All the new Orange Line trains taken out of service again

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 2:50 pm

The MBTA reports it pulled all the Springfield-assembled bingbingbing Orange Line trains today after one of them "experienced a problem" in one of its braking units and it pulled up lame at Wellington, where new Orange Line trains go to die. Read more.

Man arrested in Florida for Mattapan stabbing murder

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 1:54 pm

Boston Police report arresting Christopher Howard, 39, on charges he fatally stabbed Terkeshia Boykins on Rosewood Street in Mattapan on May 10.

Police say Howard, a Boston resident, was nabbed Tuesday in Jacksonville, FL.

Innocent, etc.

Woman arrested for near-fatal stabbing on Blue Hill Avenue

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 1:49 pm

Boston Police report arresting Esther Exil, 29, on an attempted-murder charge for a stabbing at Blue Hill Avenue and Livingstone Street in Mattapan on May 11. Read more.

Two guns found at Charlestown High School; two teens charged

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 1:22 pm

A 13-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested today after Charlestown High School officials and police found two guns at the school. Read more.

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Boston could have some park spray fountains working for this weekend

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 11:53 am

Boston normally doesn't turn on spray tables and the like in its parks until Memorial Day, but the Parks and Recreation Department reports it's had plumbers out this week seeing which tot sprays can get turned on for this weekend, what with potentially record-breaking temperatures in the forecast. The department says it hopes to have a list available by Friday afternoon.

Boston awards $17-million school-meal contract to Black-owned Roxbury concern

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 11:37 am

WCVB reports on the contract with City Fresh Foods, the largest non-construction contract the city's ever awarded to a Black-owned business, and part of Mayor Wu's pledge to increase the number of city contracts that go to minority-owned businesses.

Citizen complaint of the day: Was Chuckie the Charlestown capybara sauntering down Medford Street?

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 9:55 am

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This is not the Charlestown Whole Foods - yet.

A citizen of the sort who is up at 4:41 a.m. files a 311 report about the situation on Medford Street in Charlestown: Read more.

A survey of our local Nazis

By adamg - 5/19/22 - 9:22 am

GBH takes a look at local Nazis, including one from Waltham.

Covid-19 rates escalating again and now there's monkeypox from Montreal, although that doesn't spread like Covid-19

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 11:11 pm

Latest Covid-19 viral counts from the northern half of the MWRA sewer district. Source.

The Boston Public Health Commission reports the Covid-19 test positivity rate across Boston is now 11.5%. Statewide, the seven-day average rate is 9.13%, the state Department of Public Health reports. Read more.

Two shot at Franklin Field

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 9:21 pm

Shortly before 8:50 p.m. at Westview and Ames streets, Stanley Staco reports. One victim was transported to a trauma center, the second made his own way to a local hospital.

The Blue Hills Reservation keeps catching on fire

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 8:15 pm

Steve H. looked out the window of JetBlue Flight 1222 inbound to Logan from the south shortly before 7 p.m. and spotted what appeared to be "a sizeable brush fire" in the area of the Blue Hills Reservation.

City Council to fight any state effort to take over Boston schools

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 5:28 pm

Mejia argues against state takeover.

The City Council voted overwhelmingly today to fight to keep local control of BPS in the face of possible state receivership, saying a new mayor and a new superintendent deserve a chance to finally bring the sort of change BPS needs and that the last thing Boston - where voters strongly supported an elected school committee in the fall election - needs is an outside commissar screwing things up even more. Read more.

City Council to consider hiring civilian flaggers for road work

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 1:32 pm

City Councilor Kendra Lara (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) today proposed creation of a city office to hire hundreds of Boston residents to provide traffic flagging at the growing number of construction projects she says Boston Police simply can't cover. Read more.

East Boston soup kitchen ran out of food

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 12:50 pm

The East Boston Community Soup Kitchen, which served free meals every Tuesday, reports it had to turn away people who were already in line: Read more.

That last step really was a doozy: Court rules woman can make case to jury that airline is to blame for her injuries getting off a plane from Boston at a London airport

By adamg - 5/18/22 - 11:50 am

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a woman who tripped going down a mobile staircase after her flight from Boston to London can try to convince a jury that the way she was injured constitutes an accident for which she's owed damages. Read more.