Across Boston, disgusted residents are filing 311 complaints about sidewalks that are still unwalkable nearly a week after the snowstorm, such as this one about the conditions on Neptune Road in East Boston.
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On a trip to Millennium Park this morning, Mary Ellen spotted a line of salters waiting to pick up some fresh salt at the Public Works salt shed next to the park.
The Swellesley Report is filing dispatches from the front lines of a war that's erupted in normally bucolic Wellesley between people who just want to do some sledding and a gardening group that is trying to keep them off a prime hill to protect the tulips and other plantings at the bottom of the hill. Read more.
Bostonians filled the 311 lines with plenty of road snow complaints today, such as this complaint at 7:16 p.m. about Gallivan Boulevard (which, granted, is a state road, not a city responsibility): Read more.
Rob Adams looked out his window this morning and knew just what to do: Make some festive French toast. Read more.
Jeremy Reiner reports it's been 1,019 days since the last time Boston has seen six or more inches of snow in a single day, the fifth longest such streak since 1891.
Grant Gould shows us the first snowball of the season, made fresh this morning in West Cambridge.
It's still too early to say for sure, but NWS is at least raising the possibility of snow on Thanksgiving, and so the French Toast Alert gnomes are frantically looking up French Toast recipes again (it's been awhile since they've needed them).
And that means you'll have until 4 p.m. on Thursday to save your parking space, the one you've so arduously dug out (except in the South End and Bay Village, where space savers are never allowed).
Mayor Wu has declared a snow emergency for Tuesday, which means BPS schools and municipal buildings will be shut. Read more.
A gagging citizen files a 311 complaint about the amount of salt Boston Public Works has put down over the past week: Read more.
Trevor Michaels spotted a Masshole inbound on Tremont Street at Ruggles this morning. He adds:
This dipshit nearly cut me off because they were in the wrong lane and turned left in that incorrect lane.
Mary Ellen went for her usual sunrise walk through a snow-covered Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning. Read more.
Mark Smith had company when he got to the top of Peters Hill in the Arboretum this morning.
Carol Beggy got a good view of Arlington plows clearing Mass. Ave. this morning.
Channel 7's Rob Way, so tired he had to recline on an impromptu snow bench, was still able to bring us the scoop that Methuen got two Dunk's iced coffees worth of snow today.
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