Cambridge Day reports how Cambridge firefighters, DPW workers and Animal Control teamed up - with the help of an olive-oil donation by a nearby resident - to free a raccoon that somehow got stuck in a sewer grate on Harvey Street in North Cambridge today.
By adamg - 1/6/24 - 1:28 pm
Roving UHub photographer Scott Cluett looked up at the tall pine at least partially coming down today at Selwyn and Farquhar streets in Roslindale and noticed a raccoon huddling up there, no doubt wondering about how to avoid coming down with the tree. Read more.
By adamg - 11/4/23 - 11:00 am
It sounds like a charming children's story, but this is the T we're talking about, so it's probably chewing through the wires that keep the Blue Line running or something: A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the trash panda at State Street: Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/22 - 9:39 pm
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a family of raccoons roaming the neighborhood (with a note that there are two more raccoons not shown in the photo):
Came in and out of alley way and then moved forward to Hill Street & Cook Street Court.
By adamg - 6/13/22 - 10:48 am
A shocked resident of East Concord Street in the South End filed a 311 complaint about what he or she saw when looking out from their flat Saturday night:
Big Raccoon on roof spotted from building across the alley.
By adamg - 7/23/21 - 12:55 pm
Ama Wild has been getting up early to video the raccoons of Kendall Square, including this one, who seems to have taken up residence in a wall: Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/21 - 9:39 am
Patrick Roath reports a pair of junior trash pandas found themselves some good eatin' sometime overnight in JP's Pondside neighborhood, then couldn't get out - at least not without a helping hand.
By adamg - 4/26/21 - 9:32 pm
Ari Herzog could only watch in amazement this evening as Newton firefighters used a ladder truck, a thin lasso and a box to rescue a raccoon that had somehow survived crossing the turnpike and then climbed up the top of a light fixture sprouting from the Jersey barriers that separate the two sides of the highway.
Video: Read more.
By adamg - 4/4/21 - 5:49 pm
Andrea Pakula snapped the raccoon taking a nap on her Jamaica Plain deck this afternoon.
By adamg - 2/5/21 - 1:35 pm
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.
By adamg - 10/16/20 - 9:17 pm
Arlington officials say a raccoon they believe bit and scratched a young child on Fountain Road Wednesday afternoon has tested positive for rabies. Read more.
By adamg - 8/10/20 - 7:59 pm
From Jamaica Plain to Cambridge, rascally raccoons are showing us whom local houses really belong to: Read more.
By adamg - 7/23/20 - 10:51 am
A worried citizen files a 311 complaint about some toonie raccoons in Charlestown.
Are racoons in city normal?? Came to take dog out and came across 5 raccoons. I think I scared them and they hid in tree before going into brush on nanny goat hill.
By adamg - 6/15/20 - 9:13 am
It wasn't just the loud people smoking up the neighborhood with their grills that annoyed one concerned citizen on Chiswick Road in Brighton. In a 311 report, we also learn that the other night there were also: Read more.
By adamg - 10/13/19 - 2:32 pm
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a raccoon that is probably up to no good in the alley behind Yarmouth Street in the South End.
At least it's not a sewer pander.
By adamg - 9/22/19 - 8:53 pm
Michael Spicher reports a Stephen King experience in Jamaica Plain this evening.
We were walking in JP and I looked down and saw a raccoon peering at me from the sewer. We walked further away and waited, and it emerged.
By adamg - 7/3/19 - 11:04 pm
The Swellesley Report reports, adds, the raccoon was a nursing mother, which means the drowning consigned some young raccoons to death as well.
By adamg - 6/8/19 - 11:09 pm
A concerned citizen captured a raccoon getting all trash-panda-y in Public Alley 429 off Marlborough Street behind Comm. Ave. tonight and filed a 311 report to request prompt city action.
By adamg - 5/17/19 - 9:08 pm
Ryan Hatcher came home from work and went upstairs in his Fenway building to enjoy the sunset from a west-facing seat this evening, but found somebody had beaten him to it.
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