Kelly Garrity reports that Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) is going to run this fall for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County's clerk job that Maura Doyle recently announced she is retiring from. Read more.
Matt Frank took in the sunset over Chelsea, the Tobin, the Mystic, Boston Harbor and downtown Boston this evening.
Alexander Giannakakis, whose Nazi brother was the main suspect in a string of arson fires aimed at Jews in 2019, but who died before he could be arrested, has been returned from Sweden to face charges he tried to hide evidence of his brother's crimes and involvement in other local white-supremacist efforts, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Ed Flynn, worrying about Boston's neighboring cities.
The Boston City Council today approved a $13.3-million federal homeland-security grant without the normally required hearing after Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) warned there was no time left, that surrounding communities that would share the grant need the money now. Read more.
Eric Bender watched three Boston tugs guide the tanker Nor'easter out of Chelsea Creek this morning. He reports: Read more.
Even aside from the fact we were not in prime viewing territory for today's eclipse, it was kind of cloudy/hazy today, but Matt Frank was still able to get some shots with special darkening filters near Chelsea City Hall. Read more.
View of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1973 from Burlington's Civil Defense HQ in Overlook Park on Winnmere Hill. Photo by Steve Duke
Burlington Retro's Robert Fahey recounts the reaction and response in Greater Boston (or more specifically, Burlington) to the Great Chelsea Fire of 1973, which happened fifty years ago today.
Matt Frank watched the sun go down over clouds, the Mystic River, the Tobin Bridge and birds this evening.
If nothing else, the clouds heralding Lee gave us an amazing sunset tonight, as Tim Babatz couldn't help but notice at Fan Pier on the harbor.
Up the harbor a bit, Adam Balsam got a good view in the North End: Read more.
Our own Cybah walked into the Dollar General in Chelsea yesterday and could only think: "Not yet Dollar General.. not yet."
Maria Daniels, in Harvard Square, was one of many people who looked up after the rain stopped this evening.
In Jamaica Plain, Handmaid saw the rainbows, too, but also a still angry cloud: Read more.
Chelsea Scanner compiled video of last night's storming over Chelsea: Read more.
Amy Weingarten Salvucci took in the post-storm rainbow over the South End this evening. Brooks Payne captured it as well.
Romeo Trauma watched the rainbow over Dudley Street in Dorchester: Read more.
Northeastern Global News reports:
The members of the interdisciplinary impact engine, known as iSUPER, will install more than 100 stationary pollution sensors in Brookline and Chelsea, and also patrol greater Boston streets in a van outfitted with monitoring equipment to detect pollutants on a neighborhood level.
Fox News breaks the news that Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden has put True-See Allah, his director of community engagement/strategic partnerships, on leave to investigate an anti-Semitic statement he made in a 2016 interview. Read more.
Matt Frank captured a helicopter flying through an orange sunset today caused by forest fires in Quebec.
Boston Real Estate Times reports Hines has broken ground on a new warehouse and distribution building in Chelsea, its first industrial project in the Boston area.
Felix Arroyo opened up a vacancy as Suffolk County Register of Probate when he retired earlier this month. The first person to officially signal he's running for the office, by registering a campaign with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, is Vincent Procopio of Saugus.
Saugus is not in Suffolk County, but unlike candidates for district attorney or register of deeds, registers of probate don't have to live in the county they want to serve. The job entails overseeing a state-funded office for handling wills and the like. It pays $174,000 a year.
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