A federal judge ruled yesterday that a fired landscaper at Boston College can continue his case that his 2021 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots violated his religious rights under the First Amendment. Read more.
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By adamg - 11/12/24 - 10:38 pm
The Heights reports Boston firefighters responded to the area of Lake Street and Undine Road around 2:45 p.m. for a brush fire in woods there.
The entire state is under a red flag warning until at least 6 p.m. on Wednesday because of a drought that has persisted even as deciduous trees shed their leaves, creating huge swaths of particularly flammable areas.
By adamg - 11/6/24 - 11:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man they say repeatedly stabbed another man after a fight that may have started in a liquor store at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Warren Street in Brighton shortly before 10 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/4/24 - 11:13 pm
A man was stabbed in the chest outside Sammy's Pizza and Wine Basket & Spirits on Commonwealth Avenue at Warren Street shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/24 - 12:17 pm
Secretary of State Bill Galvin, BC Police Chief Bill Evans lose battle against proposed wine and cheese at hearing.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a packie license for a proposed gourmet food shop in the block of stores next to the Boston College Green Line stop over the strong objections of both the school - which serves beer and wine at on-campus events, including football games - and Secretary of State Bill Galvin, who lives just up the street. Read more.
By adamg - 10/10/24 - 11:20 am
The co-founder of Flatiron Energy of Boulder, CO met with Brighton residents yesterday to talk at length about the company's proposal for a two-story, 62,000-square foot building filled with lithium-ion batteries on Electric Avenue - except for the one thing most of them wanted to hear more about: How the company would protect them from the risk of a fire at a large electric facility as close as 40 feet to some residents' property. Read more.
By adamg - 10/9/24 - 3:01 pm
The City Council agreed today to look into the environmental and safety issues related to plans for at least two industrial-sized electricity-storage plants, one on the aptly named Electric Avenue in Brighton, the other on a wooded hill behind the Stop & Shop mall on American Legion Highway on the Roslindale/Hyde Park meet that was most recently in the news for being the summer home of Moodini the Steer. Read more.
By adamg - 10/2/24 - 10:23 am
City Councilor Liz Breadon (Allston/Brighton) reports that BTD has ajusted traffic lights at several Brighton intersections to automatically signal time for pedestrians to cross between 7 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday - so that observant Jewish pedestrians don't have to press buttons at the intersections on their sabbath.
The new automated pedestrian-crossing lights start this Friday at: Read more.
By adamg - 9/27/24 - 11:50 am
Gov. Healey today announced the state has taken control of St. Elizabeth's Medical in Brighton by eminent domain from its current private-equity owner to keep it open, rather than letting it simply fade away like Carney Hospital in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 9/25/24 - 10:37 pm
A man was stabbed in the stomach on Camelot Court, off Warren Street in Brighton shortly before 12:30 p.m.
As his attackers - possibly a man and a woman - fled, he managed to get himself to the Franciscan Children's Hospital, where staff tended to him until EMTs arrived to transport him to a Boston trauma center.
By adamg - 9/24/24 - 2:05 pm
Rendering of proposed store's interior.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a UPS store at 2193-2201 Commonwealth Ave. with a 900-square-foot "provision" market focusing on high-end beverages - and kosher wines - and prepared gourmet foods, aimed not at the thousands of underage Boston College students right across the street but at nearby residents looking for a more convenient place to stock up than Cleveland Circle or Brookline. Read more.
By adamg - 9/23/24 - 8:50 am
The Crimson reports Harvard University will built and maintain a public dock at Herter Park, along the Charles River in Brighton, not because it really wants to, but as part of a deal to win state approval to allow renovations at its current boathouses, one on each side of the river - on shoreland that state law normally requires be open to the public.
By adamg - 9/21/24 - 12:17 pm
A peeved resident filed a 311 complaint this morning about this 1980s-era computer graphic illegally parked in a No Standing zone at Soldiers Field Road and Soldiers Field Place in Brighton.
Earlier:
Cybertruck? More like a Cyberbully.
By adamg - 9/18/24 - 11:24 pm
Young python at the Boston animal shelter.
The Boston city animal shelter in Roslindale is now home to a young python, brought there after somebody found it Monday somewhere along Washington Street in Brighton - so somewhere between Brookline and Newton.
If Snakey looks familiar, contact Animal Care and Control at 617-635-1800 or [email protected].
By adamg - 9/12/24 - 2:48 pm
Thank goodness for e-mail. A business owner on Hillside Street on Mission Hill just sent us the following note about the local mail catastrophe, full of mail piling up in a post office in heap after growing heap: Read more.
By adamg - 9/8/24 - 12:44 pm
Feel the sine wave of surging AC in this rendering by Burns & McDonnell and RODE Architects.
A Boulder, CO company last week filed plans for the two-story, 50-foot-tall big battery building it's proposing for, really, the best street in all of Boston for something like that: Electric Avenue in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - 9/7/24 - 4:28 pm
The Heights reports D-14 cops, already on alert because of one skulking prowler with his face covered, stopped a masked guy at South Street and Kirkwood Road Thursday night after he'd been spotted in somebody's yard on Radnor Road. Read more.
By adamg - 9/4/24 - 10:57 am
A federal judge yesterday threw out what was left of a class-action lawsuit by Boston College students against the school for the way it shifted classes from in person to online in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 spread across the state. Read more.
By adamg - 8/31/24 - 10:45 am
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report the creepy eye-covered man a Gerald Road resident saw on her patio is also wanted for burglary and skulking incidents in the area dating to June. Read more.
By adamg - 8/30/24 - 12:47 pm
GBH uncorks the news that City Hall is considering several "open container districts" where people could buy something adult at a local restaurant and then just walk around sipping like we're a common New Orleans or Las Vegas. Read more.
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