"TGIF," Trout House Comics said this morning as the sun came up over Boston Harbor.
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Jocelyn asks:
Anyone have a line on where I can buy a new shovel? We ended up breaking two of them last week trying to shovel up the ice and I'm assuming we'll get a little bit of snow before we turn to spring.
Francis Tarasiewicz of the Boston National Weather Service reports he got "the e-mail" yesterday that he was fired, effective immediately.
this wouldn't be half as hard to bear if I hadn't fought my whole life through foster care and impossible odds to serve this great nation. This past month of serving my community has been the honor of a lifetime.
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a new liquor store on State Street downtown and gave a convenience store on Tremont Street in Chinatown permission to start stocking beer and wine. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter has the details on Michelle Wu's endorsement today by the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association and its allied EMS union. Read more.
A man fresh out of prison for robbing a bank was arraigned yesterday on charges he robbed a South End bank last Thursday - and will also face charges for holding up a Downtown Crossing bank the following day - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police are warning residents to be wary around alleged HelloFresh solicitors going door to door claiming to be able to get you such a deal on ready-to-eat meals. Read more.
ISO-New England, which oversees the region's electrical grid, says it will soon seek federal approval to dun electricity providers for any tariffs it's assessed on electricity purchased from Canada - which would in turn likely be added to your electric bill - even though it doesn't think electricity is covered by the tariffs, but with the current administration, who the hell knows? Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board this morning approved plans by Swissbäkers, 168 Western Ave. in Allston, to stay open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Sunday for takeout and delivery of its pastries, pretzels and sandwiches. Read more.
Emerson College is out with a poll that shows if the election were today, Wu would win 43-29 over Kraft - with 24% of respondents undecided and 4% going for other candidates, including Wu-hating North End restaurant owner Jorge Mendoza. Read more.
Rob Adams captured Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings yesterday getting ready for their performances with the Boston Ballet.
Fresh off awarding some three dozen new alcohol licenses, the Boston Licensing Board today began interviewing a new set of applicants for some of the beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses the state legislature last year approved for 13 specific Boston Zip codes: Read more.
Boston Police report a clerk at Cheema Super Market on Cambridge Street and Gordon Avenue who went outside to find and video whoever had just thrown a firecracker at the store entrance got pushed to the ground, where he was kicked and beaten with a broom by one particular 14-year-old, shortly after 3:20 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
A federal judge today dismissed a suit against Harvard University by ten alums who demanded they be reimbursed their tuition and room and board because Harvard had completely devalued the worth of their diplomas by not doing enough to stamp out anti-Semitism on campus, indeed, had made them ashamed to admit they went to school in Cambridge. Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved developer Joseph Federico's plans for a five-story, 54-unit apartment building at 1305 Hyde Park Avenue at Dana Avenue in Hyde Park. Read more.
WBUR reports the five employees fired on orders of the Musk administration are back on the job.
A correspondent reports from the banks of Leverett Pond this morning:
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John Guilfoil Public Relations, which provides PR services to Massachusetts cities and towns, with a focus on police and fire departments, says it is now recommending its clients ditch the former Twitter, not because it's owned by a fascist but because all the cool kids have moved onto other social-media platforms. Read more.
Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Iowa are looking at getting the cells of radiation patients to make a protein that could shield them from the harmful effects of their treatment - using a protein that protects the DNA of tardigrades from radiation. Read more.
Scott Van Vorhis talks to some neighbors of the Kennedy Elementary School on Bolster Street in Jamaica Plain, where a city contractor is drilling all these holes to build a $15-million geothermal heating and cooling system that will help cut the city's carbon emissions - but which in the meantime means neighbors have to put up with the sort of noise that comes from drilling deep holes - and dumping dirt from those holes.
A Roxbury man was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in state prison today after he pleaded guilty to several charges for his part in an April 6, 2019 gun battle on Mattapan Street in Mattapan that killed Eleanor Maloney, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Stavros Papantoniadis, already serving an 8 1/2-year federal prison sentence for physically and mentally abusing immigrant workers at pizza shops in Dorchester, Roslindale and Norwood, today pleaded guilty to defrauding a federal Covid-19 relief fund out of $500,000 for a Randolph pizza place he no longer owned. Read more.
