The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 151 Saratoga St., near Brooks Street in East Boston for what turned into a three-alarm fire shortly before 5 a.m. Read more.
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By adamg - 2/20/25 - 2:30 pm
The State House News Service reports on a protest yesterday at what's become the White Stadium demolition project in Franklin Park.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 12:16 pm
The staff at the Boston Landmarks Commission this week recommended that the Fox House on Metropolitan Avenue at Maynard Street in Roslindale be designated an official city landmark for both its architectural history and qualities and the lives of some of its early owners. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 11:25 am
Brookline, which handed out gobble-infused "I Voted!" stickers for the November elections, is turning to local school kids to come up with a different theme for stickers to hand out in the May 6 elections. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 10:03 am
Kim Daley, 55, of Boston, will spend ten years in federal prison for robbing a Cambridge bank in 2022 just five weeks after walking out of a halfway house on Huntington Avenue in Boston, where he had been serving the remainder of a sentence for robbing three banks in 2015. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 10:57 pm
Federal workers and supporters marched outside the O'Neill Building on Causeway Street this afternoon to protest what acting President Musk and his minions are doing to wreck government agencies that protect the public. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 10:26 pm
Both Boston and Cambridge firefighters responded to the banks of the Charles River around 4:45 p.m. on reports of people walking on the river, roughly in the area of Fairfield Street in the Back Bay. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:51 pm
Two people were shot on Dudley Street, one at Dudley and Mt. Pleasant Avenue, the other outside 225 Dudley Street, closer to Greenville Street, around 8:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 4:16 pm
A federal magistrate judge today ordered Eylem Tok sent back to Turkey to face charges related to the way she allegedly tried to keep her son from facing the equivalent of vehicular-manslaughter charges. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 3:23 pm
WBUR visited the JFK Library today, and fills in some details of its sudden closing yesterday:
" People were crying. It was surreal," she said. "We were with a gentleman who had just come in from Canada who said, 'I don't understand what's happening in your country.' "
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 1:44 pm
A Randolph man faces a variety of charges for an incident at a Cambridge car-rental garage that allegedly ended with him slamming a crescent wrench into the head of a Cambridge police officer Monday afternoon. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 11:01 am
An Allston man yesterday sued Mayor Wu and the city's public-health and licensing heads over the way Boston required people seeking entry to most indoor venues to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination between Dec. 20, 2021 and Feb. 28, 2022. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:36 am
The Neponset River Greenway Council reports the same flooding that forced a water rescue on the Mattapan Line also covered the riverside trail "near the Baker Dam and under the Adams Street Bridge" and of course all that water froze and now the council is recommending you avoid the trail or "travel with caution" until the ice melts.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:29 am
Protest starts at 4:30 p.m. at the O'Neill Building, 10 Causeway St., conveniently located next to North Station. Sponsored by the new Federal Unionists Network.
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 8:15 pm
The JFK Library Foundation says the Dorchester library and museum will re-open to the public tomorrow. In a separate statement e-mailed to reporters, it adds: Read more.
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 3:15 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports the Neponset River overflowed its banks and flooded Milton station on the Mattapan Line this morning, forcing the Milton Fire Department to send firefighters in a raft to rescue one trolley's driver and six passengers.
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 1:21 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports that local car magnate Herb Chambers is selling most of his dealerships to some Georgia concern for more than $1 billion. No immediate word if the names will be changed to some mongrelized phrase like all the Boch dealerships that now go by NuCar.
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 10:08 am
A Roslindale developer has filed plans for a four-story, 46-unit apartment building at 586 Canterbury St. next to the ScrubaDub, the Rozzie apartment building and the brook that runs along American Legion Highway. Read more.
By adamg - 2/17/25 - 2:04 pm
Ron Newman attended today's patriotic down-with-kings rally at the State House, which he reports was his third in two weeks and "the largest so far." Read more.
