Update: The train may have been disabled by morons.
Trevyn Langsford had tickets to see T: An MBTA Musical at 2:30 today at Somerville's Rockwell Theater, but missed the show because his Red Line train got stuck behind a train that died at Charles/MGH. Read more.
The MBTA says there won't be any Orange Line trains between Oak Grove and North Station this weekend and no service between Wellington and North station June 24-30. Read more.
You know the drill: They have to shut a major part of the Orange Line for some preventative maintenance they weren't able to get to when they shut the entire line for a month of preventive maintenance in 2022, this time between Back Bay and Wellington for ten days starting Tuesday. The T advises: Read more.
A spinout from Harvard's Wyss Institute announced today it's now licensing its microbe-based system to turn carbon dioxide into a component of a variety of foods and other substances, including chocolate. Read more.
At 9:49 a.m., the MBTA reported delays on the Green Line Extension between East Somerville as workers went into Officer Mike mode and escorted some baby ducks off the tracks.
Earlier:
Aw, shucks: More ducks.
Guster on the porch as crowd slowly parts for ambulance.
Yes, Guster played on somebody's porch on Aberdeen Road in Somerville and a ton of people showed up and one guy maybe downed too many High Noons, and as roving UHub Guster fan Dapeaz shows us, just five songs in, the crowd had to part like some human Red Sea to let the ambulance in. He adds: Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Thirsty Scholar on Beacon Street in Somerville has closed for good.
Damien Drella reports what is now a three-alarm fire is burning through all three floors of a six-unit building at 62 Dover St. in Somerville. Photos from the scene.
Both Boston and Cambridge have sent fire crews.
The Huntington News attends a Somerville death cafe, part of an movement started by a Brittish Buddhist to free up discussions about, well, death. The cafes have four rules, including: "there must be tea and cake provided - it is a British organization, after all."
Jess Riley shows us the car flipped on its roof on Alston Street in Somerville, near McGrath Highway. Read more.
Art Outdoors surveys the painted utility boxes in Boston and adjacent communities.
Earlier:
JP's stickleback box.
Allston group wants to beautify neighborhood rat traps.
Via PomPoison.
The Crimson reports there were witnesses to the foiled fiddle filching at the Burren in Somerville. Plus, the bow fell out of one of the two students' coats as they were getting into an Uber. One of the two is a Crimson editor, but declined to comment when contacted by a Crimson reporter.
Swachter writes:
I love the questions that living in Somerville brings up. Questions like, “Are squashed rats compostable?”
AzulasKeeper show us the price of an Uber ride from Somerville to Revere this morning.
Roving UHub photographer Pat Quintin files this snap of a cloudbow from a Green Line trolley between Lechmere and Union Square this afternoon
Jason Pramas explains why he's shutting down Somerville Wire (in part because he's now working on a statewide news source), but says Somerville is no longer in danger of becoming the news desert he once thought, because the city now has a growing list of news sources, including Cambridge Day and even a newspaper from across the river, which has a "Camberville" newsletter.
CommonWealth Beacon takes a look at the intersection of old-school Somerville politics and new-school marijuana licensing next door in Medford - in a story that will culminate next month when a former Somerville alderman is sentenced for attempting to bribe the Medford police chief to get his client's dispensary approved in that city.
Newhouse Wildlife Rescue recounts how a Somerville police officer and a pair of animal rescuers teamed up to save a coyote with a broken leg in a ditch near the Mystic that ran into the river when they approached:
Thankfully, it was only about two feet deep. The river was cold enough that we were worried about the coyote getting hypothermia. We got him back to the rescue, as soon as possible, and warmed him up. Jonny was also drenched but he didn’t complain.
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