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City-council candidates on making roads safer for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 12:22 pm

The Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition has posted answers to questions about road safety - for both at-large candidates and candidates in specific districts in the Sept. 24 preliminaries.

New Eliot School building opens this fall

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 10:08 am

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on the impending opening of the new Eliot School building at 585 Commercial St., which once served as headquarters for Mitt Romney's failed 2012 presidential bid.

Citizen complaint of the day: Urgent turkey help needed

By adamg - 8/20/19 - 8:44 am

A concerned South Boston resident decides to give 311 a shot instead of calling the Butterball hotline:

What do we do about wild turkeys in my front yard

T bus perhaps not the best bet as a bank-robbery getaway vehicle

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 10:09 pm

WCVB reports a man who robbed a Revere bank today hopped on an MBTA bus afterwards - and wound up getting arrested not long after.

Although, it did once work.

Lighting the way for Krystle Campbell, Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu and Sean Collier

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 9:57 pm

One of the Boylston Street memorials for the victims of the 2013 Marathon bombers

The two Boylston Street memorials for the four who died at the hands of the 2013 Marathon bombers were formally unveiled tonight. Chris photographed them.

Suffolk takes a lesson from BU and buys a hotel for use as a dorm

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 4:56 pm

The Globe reports Suffolk University is buying the Ames Hotel across from the Old State House and will convert it into a dorm - much like BU did decades ago with a couple of hotels in Kenmore Square, such as the old Myles Standish Hotel.

Watching the storm come in from the secret storm chaser's lair

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 4:33 pm

Incoming storm from top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury

With half the sky getting ominously dark (and the other half staying blue) around 4 p.m., we knew exactly what to do: Head to the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury to catch some storm-cloud action. We were not disappointed, but this time we had company: NBC Boston's radar station on wheels, its radome in the upright position, ready to Doppler the incoming storm like nobody's business: Read more.

Warning to plant, wheelbarrow thief on one Jamaica Plain street

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 3:37 pm

Warning to whoever took plants and a wheelbarrow and hose on Alveston Street in Jamaica Plain

Listen, you piece of crap, you're lucky one Alveston Street resident is willing to let it go, just this once. And now, thanks to a roving UHub photographer who found himself on Alveston this afternoon, we're all going to be looking for you, I mean, how many people are out there pushing some new plants around in a wheelbarrow with a hose?

British jets roar over the Harbor

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 11:55 am

See it larger

AgentSarcasm got to watch the RAF Red Arrows from a Charlestown wharf.

Citizen complaint of the day: Slippery aphid crap all over the street

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 10:37 am

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the slippery conditions on Greenwich Park in the South End: Read more.

Pop-up art display at Ruggles station mordantly speaks to the futility of life in the modern age

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 9:05 am

@universalhub ...why? pic.twitter.com/f3w44NXteZ

— Kelly N (@synaesthetist) August 19, 2019

One if by land, two if by sea and three if by air

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 8:47 am

Around 11 a.m., an RAF jet squad will zoom down along Boston Harbor from the north, to promote STEM learning, not to try to avenge Bunker Hill.

Not something on the new train we hope: Orange Line door problem making riders mope

By adamg - 8/19/19 - 8:39 am

The MBTA reports a "door problem" on one train inbound from Forest Hills was causing ten-minute Orange Line delays. Or as Massmikmouse put it at 8:07 a.m.:

Past half hour on an Orange Line train with door isssues. Now at Ruggles with the first car being emptied. Maybe, someday, I’ll get to Back Bay. What a morning.