Workers from DCR, who put down a string of boulders across one of the few remaining parking lots in Stony Brook Reservation on Friday will remove them today - and pick up the trash that led them to put them there - state Rep. Rob Consalvo (14th Suffolk) says, adding that ISD will join the trash picker uppers to see if they can identify who dumped the trash and possibly fine them. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/22 - 1:04 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint to demand the city replace the pink trash barrel of Prince Street, and not just because now there's trash all over the street: Read more.
By adamg - 11/25/21 - 10:03 pm
One outraged citizen pounds out a 311 complaint about conditions in the North End today: Read more.
By adamg - 4/7/16 - 7:47 am
The Bulletin reports on efforts by Hyde Park officials to clean up the neighborhood. At a meeting earlier this week, officials said that no matter what they do, the neighborhood is at a disadvantage because it's surrounded by suburbanites who use the city as their dumping ground - including a Milton pre-school that was dumping all its trash in the neighborhood.
This is not a new complaint.
By adamg - 1/29/14 - 1:02 pm
City Councilor Matt O'Malley (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) says clean business districts are better and even safer business districts and wants to look at increasing fines on "chronic" litterers.
By adamg - 10/16/11 - 12:41 pm
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports several state reps are shepherding an "emergency" bill that would, immediately on passage, l
By adamg - 9/27/11 - 8:59 am
Two city councilors are working on proposals that could prohibit 3 a.m. commercial trash pickups in neighborhoods like the North End and limit the number of companies allowed to pick up trash there at all.
By adamg - 1/23/11 - 2:59 pm
It may sound counter-intuitive to those of us with just one pickup a week, but Ross Levanto explains how cutting the neighborhood's weekly trash pickups from three t
By adamg - 2/28/10 - 11:54 pm
Adam Balsam walked across the North End tonight and photographed and noted every last bag of trash illegally put out too early:
By rossoduck - 5/3/07 - 8:30 am
This past Saturday I volunteered as part of Boston Shines and the Beacon Hill neighborhood cleanup.
By adamg - 8/18/06 - 8:28 am
Jenn Martinelli is sick of the Beacon Hill Civic Association and its bright green posters telling people not to put the trash out the night before when, as far as she can tel
