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.
By adamg - Wed, 02/26/2025 - 8:54am
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By adamg - Wed, 01/01/2025 - 11:33am
A resident with ears covered filed a 311 complaint at 1:09 a.m. about the noise on Kneeland Street in Chinatown:
Very very loud, high pitched screeching sound coming from Vicinity Steam plant.
By adamg - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 10:01am
A bleary-eyed resident files a 311 complaint about the seeming spotlights blaring out of a building under construction at 125 Broad St. downtown: Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 10/18/2024 - 1:14pm
A bedeviled resident filed a 311 complaint about the infernal racket outside the Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue near Lord's and Lady's Way in West Roxbury: Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 10/03/2024 - 5:04pm
Update: Association replies.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge holds a hearing tomorrow afternoon on a request from Adam and Shelby Burns, who live behind the South Boston Lithuanian Citizens Association on West Broadway for a temporary restraining order that would effectively shut the club down as they pursue the suit they filed today over alleged noise, rowdiness and harassment by the club, its managers and its patrons. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/15/2024 - 9:23am
Boston firefighters responded shortly before 8:45 a.m. to 25-27 Forest St. in Roxbury for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The department reports no injuries. Four residents and a bird were displaced, the department says.
By adamg - Mon, 01/29/2024 - 4:58pm
An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about the scorching steam on South Street near Kneeland Street - right across the street from the Vicinity Energy steam plant: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/01/2024 - 10:27pm
An annoyed citizen filed a 311 complaint tonight about the brighter than bright billboard at Albany Street and Frontage Road: Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 12/19/2023 - 2:10pm
A being-driven-mad citizen files a 311 complaint about the non-stop pinging or ringing, but definitely not singing on Mission Hill: Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 08/23/2023 - 12:36pm
A woman who says she is fed up with the weekly messages Star Market sends her about sales and stuff yesterday sued the chain under a federal law that's requires marketers give consumers an actual way to opt out. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 08/06/2023 - 6:05pm
An aggrieved citizen filed a 311 complaint this afternoon that there's only so much "Turkey in the Straw" one can stand:
Memorial Park East Boston. The ice cream truck has been playing his annoying song for 30 minutes.
By adamg - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 11:04am
By adamg - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 11:15am
A vexed citizen filed a 311 complaint about the blinding light that Rotary Liquors, at the rotary in South Boston, has added that would make a good topic for a song by the Weeknd or Manfred Mann and the Earth Band, depending on the citizen's age. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 07/03/2023 - 9:46am
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about how National Grid covered a hole at Alford Street and Maffa Way in Charlestown:
What in the literal f is this? Get National Grid’s tacky ass over here to fix this pit
Citizen complaint of the day: Boston Calling making windows rattle, babies cry for four miles around
By adamg - Sun, 05/29/2022 - 12:45pm
Boston 311 this morning is chock full of complaints from people living nowhere near Boston Calling about all the noise, noise, noise: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 05/23/2022 - 2:19pm
The folks at Gamma Ray Digital on Braintree Street in Allston are getting pretty annoyed at how workers for billboard giant Clear Channel now remove billboard wraps there and hurl them off the roof of a five-story building onto the in-use parking lot below, especially since the building has a working freight elevator.
Compare: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 05/16/2022 - 5:58pm
Guy Fieri set up one of his restaurants in the old Masonic Building on Tremont at Boylston, you know, the one with the signs warning you about hollow sidewalks and the large old Mason's Lodge logo done in tile that's been there for decades. Guy Fieri thinks his mug, and his need for workers, is more important, though, so he's wheat-pasted a garish help-wanted ad right over it.
By adamg - Sun, 05/01/2022 - 12:07pm
CatBoston shares her online banking page from this morning: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 04/04/2022 - 1:49pm
Over the past three weeks, a disgusted citizen has filed five separate 311 complaints about trash in the parking lot of the CVS on Centre Street at South Huntington Avenue in Jamaica Plain. And the city has closed each complaint with a note that a ticket has been issued "for loose trash and debris."
By adamg - Sat, 03/12/2022 - 4:33pm
An irate Back Bay resident filed a 311 complaint about the stupid signs that popped up everywhere yesterday, blue this time, unlike they yellow signs that popped up everywhere last fall: Read more.
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