NBC Boston reports the man was hit on the westbound side of Rte. 9, possibly in the left lane, this morning in front of the former Atrium mall in Newton sometime before 7 a.m.
By adamg - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:13am
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By adamg - Mon, 01/27/2025 - 3:19pm
A school psychologist for Newton Public Schools today sued over her 2022 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots, saying she had a legitimate religious reason to avoid the shots: Her Greek Orthodox church is against the use of substances derived from aborted babies, which she claims Covid-19 vaccines are from. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/24/2025 - 4:08pm
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reports UMass Amherst is looking to see if any developers might be interested in doing something with 16 acres of prime land just up the road a bit from the Boston line at its satellite campus where Mount Ida College used to be. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 4:42pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports Moldova Restaurant in Nonantum is closing for good on Dec. 29.
By adamg - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 2:48pm
Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 11:10am
A Springfield man who orchestrated a ring of catalytic-converter thieves that operated across two states - including in Newton, Waltham and Needham - was sentenced this week to ten years in federal prison, the US Attorney's office reports, adding the arrests of ring members last year has meant a significant decrease in catalytic-converter thefts. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 10/02/2024 - 3:33pm
City Realty last week unwrapped some of its ideas for the 5-acre office complex on Rte. 9 in Brookline at the Newton line it now owns: Replacing it completely with a new complex featuring a 20-story hotel/condo tower at the city line along with two shorter buildings with apartments, retail space and medical offices, all clustered around a "town square" the length of two football fields with a stream-like "water feature" that would encourage visitors to sit and enjoy themselves. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 09/22/2024 - 11:29pm
Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.
The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 09/13/2024 - 4:11pm
A Framingham man charged with shooting a man who tackled him at a hostage-release rally in Newtonville yesterday had bail set today at $5,000 cash and was ordered to give up his three guns at his arraignment on a single charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 09/12/2024 - 9:25pm
Newton police and EMTs responded to Washington and Harvard streets in Newtonville after a man was shot in the abdomen at a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas, possibly by a participant he ran across the street to tackle around 6:45 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 09/05/2024 - 12:26pm
The Jewish Journal interviews Erwin Liverman, who started sweeping out chimneys, with his father, when he was just seven and retired only this past July - after a career that also included getting a master's in education in counseling psychology at Cambridge College.
"It just got to the point where I thought, 'Oy, this is enough,' " he said, interviewed at home in Newton. "I may be the most senior sweep in the world."
By adamg - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 10:57am
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 - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 9:07pm
A Newton man who now lives in the Armenian capital of Yerevan this week became an international fugitive when a federal judge in Boston signed an arrest warrant charging him with lying to federal and local officials who wanted to know why he and his belongings kept showing traces of both black powder and an even more volatile chemical sometimes used to make explosives. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 08/28/2024 - 10:42am
By adamg - Thu, 08/15/2024 - 6:52pm
A roving UHub photographer watched a crew carve up a large tree knocked over in West Newton by this afternoon's storm.
By adamg - Tue, 05/28/2024 - 12:22pm
At 11:20 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Riverside Line as workers "assisted a turtle from the tracks" at Chestnut Hill.
Earlier:
Green Line stopped due to baby ducks.
By adamg - Thu, 05/23/2024 - 11:38pm
Newton Police report charging a Boston man with driving around the city "in a white SUV in order to harass and intimidate Jewish community members walking in the area" on April 30 and pulling down blue ribbons on trees outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston on Nahanton Street on Tuesday. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 7:29pm
Mbcrowley snapped an inbound D Line trolley just past Waban around 7 tonight:
No One is using the T … yes some will board but they have a ton of work to do to get people back and spending $$$ on consultants to figure out how to save money is not going to get riders
By adamg - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 2:56pm
The MBTA was forced to rustle up some buses to get Riverside Line riders between Fenway and Reservoir due to an issue with the overhead wires near Brookline Hills.
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