The MBTA announced today that it hopes to finally, actually, really, no kidding, open the Green Line Extension all the way into Medford by "late November," just in time for you to go over the river and through the woods to visit the Medford house where Lydia Maria Child's grandparents lived, prompting her to write the famous Thanksgiving song. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 08/05/2022 - 11:15am
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By adamg - Thu, 07/21/2022 - 2:56pm
WBZ talked to the woman who jumped from the Orange Line bridge over the Mystic River after she got out of the train when its first car began flaming and smoking after a metal panel came lose and created a short circuit with the third rail.
By adamg - Thu, 07/21/2022 - 1:20pm
MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said today's Orange Line fire was caused by a roughly one-foot-by-six-foot metal strip that separated from the rest of its car and came into contact with the third rail - "sparking smoke and some fire and limited ignition on the underside" of the car. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 07/21/2022 - 8:03am
Update: MBTA says metal strip came loose from train and then into contact with the third rail.
The first car of an older inbound Orange Line train suffered an explosion, then burst into flames on the bridge over the Mystic River just before Assembly this morning, sending panicked riders onto the bridge while the third rail was still live. One rider jumped into the river; came out OK. Read more.
By Neal - Fri, 04/22/2022 - 8:43pm
No, not that Big Dig, an earlier one one. This one, described by some as The Incredible Ditch was completed a long, long time ago.
By adamg - Thu, 04/21/2022 - 9:14am
Tufts Daily reports the university says masks can come off when the campus Covid-19 rates shrinks, but right now 6% of tested undergraduates are positive for the virus, so the mandate stays in place, no matter how many undergrads sign a petition to remove the mask mandate like other nearby schools have done.
By adamg - Fri, 04/01/2022 - 9:59am
A Hayward, CA man with a long history of making threatening phone calls to women police officers across two continents was arrested yesterday on a charge that he made a series of calls to Tufts University officers last year that sparked an hours-long room-by-room search of several dormitories, by both officers and dogs, for a supposed woman being held hostage by an ex-special services specialist with a taser. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 11:52am
MrsRoyKent posts some dashcam video of the result of some bad driving decisions in Medford this morning: Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/05/2022 - 1:34pm
The Entomological Society of America has decided to rename the tree-munching menace formerly known as "gypsy moths" as "spongy moths."
By adamg - Wed, 01/05/2022 - 9:58pm
Update, 6/27/22: Case dismissed because she never filed either a filing fee or a request to proceed without a fee.
An Arkansas woman who claims she's one of the Moorish owners of what is called the US is suing Massachusetts state troopers for the "genocide" they committed when they seized a gun and ammunition from her car parked outside a Middlesex County courthouse to which she drove 1,500 miles to show support for the Rise of the Moors men arrested after an armed standoff on Rte. 128 last July. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/16/2021 - 8:45pm
By adamg - Mon, 12/06/2021 - 9:23am
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn has posted an apology for a City Hall Chanukah display that included an explanation that discussed the holiday in Christian terms and referred to "the sins of Israel," WBZ reports.
By adamg - Wed, 12/01/2021 - 9:21am
But the plentiful restrooms at the Joyce Cummings Center don't have enough sinks and they are "extremely repetitive," the reviewer concludes.
By adamg - Mon, 11/29/2021 - 3:34pm
WBZ reports on the arraignment of Brady McCue, charged with smashing a woman in the head with a rock and repeatedly raping her on a trail in the Middlesex Fells last week. Police were led to him in part by a coffee cup left at the scene.
By adamg - Sun, 11/28/2021 - 3:51pm
We're still very touchy about unattended pressure cookers, for obvious reasons. So if you were shopping at or near the Medford Whole Foods today and suddenly realized, "oh, damn!" you left your pressure cookers on the pavement as you loaded groceries into your car, Medford Police would like to have a chat with you. Julia reports police taped off the parking lot after the discovery of two pressure cookers in bags just sitting there, menacingly. They were empty, she reports.
By adamg - Wed, 10/20/2021 - 12:03pm
At Northeastern University, somebody vandalized a mezuzah at the entrance to the campus chapter of the Jewish organization Hillel, while at Tufts, two of the small cases, which contain parchment from the Torah and which are mounted at doorways, were stolen from dorms last month. Read more
By adamg - Tue, 09/28/2021 - 10:05am
A lightning strike at Wellington means signal problems on the Orange Line and that, of course, means delays, serious enough to just have trains sit at stations.
By adamg - Thu, 08/19/2021 - 1:48pm
Somerville City Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen captured the scene along the Fitchburg Line tracks, next to the impending Union Square Green Line stop, after this afternoon's drenching rain. Note the floating timbers. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 07/24/2021 - 10:36am
Dan Kennedy was among the Medford residents who marched outside the New England Baptist Church, which has been using its front-lawn si
By adamg - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 5:44pm
MassDOT reported this afternoon that it expects to have all southbound lanes on I-93 near Roosevelt Circle re-opened to traffic sometime tomorrow after completion of repairs to keep that storrowed overpass from collapsing until more permanent repairs can be made - a process the state says will take several months. Read more.
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