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French Toast Alert Level: 2 Slices / Guarded. Explanation.
Man holding sign that asks: He does know what happened to Napoleon, right?
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.

Rutherford Avenue lined with horse-related businesses in 1913.
By adamg - 2/17/25 - 12:27 pm
Back in 1913, Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown between the Prison Point Bridge (today's Gilmore Bridge) and Sullivan Square was lined with shops catering to horse owners - from "horse shoers" to harness makers, as seen in this photo by Curtis Wolcott of several shops near where Tibbetts Town Way used to intersect with the avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 2/17/25 - 11:10 am
The folks at Boston College's Burns Library found a 1796 John Adams campaign song and had somebody sing it. Something about it sounds familiar: Read more.

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By adamg - 2/17/25 - 10:27 am

Jamaica Plain News reports that Jeff Ferris, who opened his Ferris Wheels bike shop on South Street in 1982,  has sold the business to Pierre Payette.

By adamg - 2/16/25 - 11:53 pm

Somerville firefighters responded to Bow Market off Somerville Avenue around 8 p.m. for a small fire in the market's restaurant area - which they managed to knock down in about 20 minutes.

Marble the swan yesterday
By adamg - 2/16/25 - 10:55 pm
Jim Sullivan, who along with several other swan fans, had watched over Marble the swan since his hatching last year in Ward's Pond, reports that Marble was found dead today on the ice at Jamaica Pond, likely a victim of the avian flu that has killed other waterfowl there in recent weeks. Read more.
50 Vernon St.
By adamg - 2/16/25 - 2:12 pm

The Brookline Fire Department reports that top two floors of a three-story building undergoing renovations at 50 Vernon St., off Harvard Street, collapsed around 10 a.m. today. Read more.

By adamg - 2/16/25 - 10:18 am

A group of professors and students affiliated with Harvard Medical School write that it's all well and good for a consortium that includes Harvard and MIT to develop wind and solar farms in Texas and North Dakota, but what about the carbon-belching MATEP plant right in the middle of all those Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research centers in the Longwood Medical Area?

Firefighters on second floor of Monponset Street house
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 5:54 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 26 Monponset St. around 4:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/25 - 4:40 pm

Jonatham Kamens reports that he and other employees at the US Digital Service got word from their new Musk overlords last night they have been fired. Read more.

Anti-Musk protesters outside Tesla showroom in Dedham
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 1:35 pm

Roving UHub photographer Clay Gollobin shows us three of the people protesting the acting president outside his showroom in Dedham today.

A gull with an apparent four legs eating a clam
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 12:16 pm

On a trip down to Plymouth, Mary Ellen spotted a rare four-legged herring gull enjoying some fresh shellfish.
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By adamg - 2/15/25 - 12:08 pm

The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning Washington and Poplar streets along Adams Park and creating a more plaza-like feel to the intersection of Belgrade Avenue with South and Roberts streets. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/25 - 11:01 am

A group of gun groups and a student from Brewster at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy yesterday sued the state over a regulation that prohibits people between 18 and 20 from owning and walking around with guns - and say this will be their first crack at winning repeal of a law passed last year that also tightens restrictions on automatic weaponry and "ghost" guns. Read more.

Protesters hold signs for democracy, against broligarchy
By adamg - 2/14/25 - 11:22 pm

Ron Newman attended the pro-democracy protest downtown today.

Erica Fletcher also participated in the Stop the Coup protest. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 6:09 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports  that John Snow, Inc., which runs public-health programs in both the US and around the world, has laid off roughly 1,100 employees because the Musk administration has ended USAID funding.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 3:04 pm

Boston Police report officers with a search warrant arrested a Randolph man in an apartment on Cummins Highway in Mattapan Square, where they also found a loaded rifle, three guns and bags of coke, crack and fentanyl Wednesday morning. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 2:16 pm

Telegram.com reports the Republican Town Committee in Hudson has canceled an event next week where local y'all quedaists Mark Sahady and Sue Ianni were scheduled for some post-pardon adulation just because people who objected to their glorification were promising protests and vowing to close their accounts at the bank whose meeting room they were going to use. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 11:13 am

The Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled a company that owns an office building and freight warehouse on five acres of Massport land off McClellan Highway in East Boston has to pay Boston property taxes -  mainly because in 1993, the state Senate only sort of voted to override a Bill Weld veto of a measure that would have exempted the building, but not really. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 8:54 am

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by the owners of Tipsy's, the former Figueroa's at 739 Parker St. on Mission Hill, to add spirits to the beer and wine they already sell. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 11:07 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he drove into two pedestrians, killing one, on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets on the night of Jan. 18 and then drove off. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 6:18 pm

Isabel Ravenna posts some video of people protesting the acting president's Tesla car and truck lines outside his showroom in the Prudential Center on Boylston Street today. Small group, but next time they should try more publicity in advance.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 5:27 pm

A federal judge in Boston today barred the Musk administration from trying to enforce its White House occupant's diktat that babies born on American soil are not necessarily Americans, even if the 14th Amendment, which remains part of the Constitution, explicitly says they are. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 12:31 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a Taunton convenience-store owner to replace the old Simco's hot-dog stand at American Legion Highway and Canterbury Street with Tasty Kabob and Curry. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 11:01 am

From an Asian-Peruvian fusion restaurant in Charlestown to a Colombian eatery in Hyde Park, the Boston Licensing Board today awarded 28 new beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses to restaurants across the city, as part of the 225 new licenses granted Boston by the state legislature last year. Read more.