Everett

State, Everett and Somerville officials announce they're going to get that pedestrian/bike bridge built over the Mystic

By adamg - 10/22/21 - 3:50 pm

The new bridge will connect the Assembly MBTA stop with the Northern Strand bicycle path. Read more.

Court lifts stay on suit charging ExxonMobil is dumping crud into the Mystic River, failing to plan for potential flooding

By adamg - 7/1/21 - 8:57 pm

A federal appeals court today gave the Conservation Law Foundation permission to proceed with its suit against ExxonMobil over alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at a petroleum facility in Everett off a small tributary of the Mystic River - including an alleged failure to study the potential impact of increased flooding caused by climate change on the riverside plant. Read more.

Infamous King Arthur's Lounge being replaced by a stripper-free cannabis shop

By adamg - 6/24/21 - 11:03 am

The Chelsea Record reports on what's going up where trouble used to frequently go down on the Chelsea/Everett line.

Some blackjack players bet they could increase their winnings by suing casinos; they lost

By adamg - 6/23/21 - 11:21 am

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that blackjack players who won at the cheap tables at the Encore and MGM Springfield casinos, then sued to get the higher winnings they would have gotten at higher-stakes tables, should have quit while they were ahead. Read more.

How Everett and Chelsea got screwed by the stimulus package

By adamg - 3/19/21 - 2:55 pm

The Everett Independent reports.

Encore baccarat dealer, two pals charged with using bathroom breaks in plot to cheat casino

By adamg - 3/6/21 - 2:37 pm

An Encore casino dealer and two other men face state charges for an alleged scheme in which they managed to bilk the house of $23,500 over two nights, the state Attorney General's office reports.

In an unrelated incident, two MetroWest men who got into a fight with a third man that ended with that man stabbed also face charges, the AG's office say. Read more.

Everett could get Boston area's tallest rooftop restaurant

By adamg - 3/4/21 - 10:01 am

The Chlesea Record reports a developer has proposed a 21-story residential building at the Chelsea line that would be topped with a rooftop restaurant.

Brrrr

By adamg - 1/29/21 - 8:44 am

Jared shares the view out his window in Everett this morning.

Uncovered-nose woman throws coins at bus driver, smashes door window, bends bus wipers

By adamg - 1/28/21 - 1:17 pm

Upset woman on a bus in Everett. Surveillance photos via TPD.

Transit Police are seeking help finding a woman who attacked a route 110 bus driver at Chelsea and Victoria streets around 10:45 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.

Boston Apartment Availability Percentage Spikes in Key Neighborhoods - Reveals Ominous Trend

By bostonpads - 11/9/20 - 1:30 pm

The challenges faced by the Boston housing market have been well documented in 2020. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in urban population distribution in metropolitan areas all across the country, and Boston is no exception. It effectively took one of the nation’s hottest real estate markets and caused it to come to a grinding halt as apartment vacancies soar all over the city.

Old white people on the Everett City Council who hate masks demand black councilor with vulnerable father at home spend four hours breathing in their exhalations or quit

By adamg - 11/1/20 - 12:24 pm

The Globe reports that several white city councilors in Everett, which has one of the state's highest Covid-19 rates, have demanded the councilor quit if she doesn't show up in person at meetings - where several of them refuse to wear masks - rather than Zooming in. She's refused because she lives with her father, who has diabetes, not good should she bring some coronavirus home. The DA is looking into how a section of the meeting at which this came up got deleted from a city server.

Two Everett breweries forced to close because of customer who went barhopping while waiting for a Covid-19 test - which came back positive

By adamg - 9/9/20 - 9:24 am

MassLive.com reports.

No more stripper parties at Encore hotel

By adamg - 9/3/20 - 10:53 am

The Chelsea Record reports State and Everett Police busted up quite the shindig at the casino hotel early on Aug. 16 - some 110 people crowded into a suite with an occupancy limit of 10 and featuring a DJ and "adult dancers." The guy who rented the suite faces charges. The casino was also cited and vows it's now doing what it should have been doing to prevent such potential superspreaders.

Brief but intense storm

By adamg - 8/19/20 - 7:14 pm

See it larger.

Matt Frank watched the late-afternoon storm band move over Malden and Everett. Read more.

Casino partiers so over coronavirus; separately, man shot outside the casino

By adamg - 8/18/20 - 9:14 am

NBC Boston interviewed a Dorchester man outraged that State Police busted up a party he threw at the Encore Casino, because it's been like six or seven whole months since the pandemic started and "a lot of people are kind of over it at this point." Read more.

Local boss offered sales jobs with plenty of opportunity, as long as you didn't annoy him enough to shoot you, feds say

By adamg - 8/10/20 - 12:31 pm

Surveillance photo of Mubarak, with an arrow pointing to his distinctive gold-rimmed sunglasses.

The US Attorney's office in Boston last week announced the arrest of Mujab Jihad Mubarak, an Everett man with ties to Dorchester, on charges he built up quite the heroin and fentanyl ring in the Boston area. Read more.

If Republicans want somebody to run against Ayanna Pressley, they'll have to write in a candidate in the September primary, court rules

By adamg - 7/13/20 - 3:14 pm

Rayla Campbell in West Roxbury last month.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state does not have to print Rayla Campbell's name on the Republican ballot for the 7th District congressional seat, because she failed to collect even the reduced number of signatures the court had earlier allowed due to Covid-19 issues. Read more.