PSF Community Center is pleased to partner with Brighton Main Streets to host a neighborhood mixer and volunteer fair to showcase great organizations in Allston and Brighton on Thursday, March 12. Come stop by the PSF Community Center in Oak Square between 6 pm and 7:30 pm, enjoy a beer or a glass of wine and some snacks, and learn about how to volunteer with organizations in your neighborhood including:

– The Presentation School Foundation Community Center
– Brighton Main Streets and Allston Village Main Streets
– ABCD Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Opportunity Center
– Oak Square YMCA

The Globe today posted a fun profile of the South Street Diner. So it pains us a bit here at the nitpick desk to report that the second half of the headline, "I spent the night at South Street Diner, Boston’s only 24/7 sit-down spot," is wrong.

The City that Always Sleeps has two sit-down spots open 24/7 - the other being the IHOP on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton.

The Presentation School Foundation Community Center is excited to launch the Brighton Winter Farmers Market. Read more.

Boston Police report three officers were able to grab and hold onto a man they say was about to jump from a ledge atop a sixth-floor ledge at a parking garage at 5 Guest St. Friday night. Read more.

Eileen Murphy spotted some people enjoying the beach off N Street in South Boston today.

Meanwhile, up on the Charles River, just upstream from the Arsenal Street bridge, some geese just couldn't be bothered to try out the water: Read more.

Just off the ramp from the Arsenal Street Bridge to Soldiers Field Road at the Charles River is this bunker. Presuming it's not a failed Dharma Initiative project with a keyboard where somebody has to enter a sequence to save the world every 108 minutes, anybody know what it is, or was, for?

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal to stick a newfangled digital billboard atop a Lincoln Street business next to the Massachusetts Turnpike after hearing from elected officials and neighborhood groups that 60-foot-high structure would become a blight in an up-and-coming area, even if its LEDs would be designed to only beam into the eyes of drivers on the highway. Read more.

At the height of the storm last night, Kaz wondered why a beacon was rounding the sky in Brighton. Erin Hubay reports it's just the newly rebuilt McDonald's on Soldiers Field Drive alerting the world to its existence.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal by Lee's Market on Commonwealth Avenue at Washington Street in Brighton to start selling beer, wine and spirits. Read more.