On the morning of Aug. 18, a motorist who probably wasn't going at all fast, no sir, slammed into the long stone wall that runs along Pond Street between Prince and Eliot streets, across from the southern end of Jamaica Pond. Read more.
Some Swan Boat sections made their way north on Pond Street by Jamaica Pond yesterday afternoon. The Swan Boats are scheduled to return to their leisurely tours of the Public Garden lagoon on Saturday.
Also headed north yesterday - but in Jamaica Pond - was one of the pond's muskrats, on the Parkman Drive side: Read more.
A correspondent forwards this photo from a crash on Pond Street just before 6 this morning, loud enough to awake the neighbors:
Mercedes hit neighbors' stone wall coming around the turn. Passenger okay but car took a beating. Fire crew on site quickly. Slow down Boston.
A citizen files a 311 complaint about a pair of raccoons in a tree off Pond Street in Jamaica Plain, although it's unclear if the resident is really complaining or just admiring them: Read more.
A first-floor fire at 35 Pond St., near Williams Street, in Hyde Park was quickly knocked down but displaced nine residents, at least some of whom took shelter in an MBTA bus.
Firefighters responded around 8:30 p.m.
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