Boston firefighters responded to the Stony Brook Orange Line station around midnight after smoke began filling the station from a fire on the outbound tracks. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 9:15am
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By adamg - Fri, 01/03/2025 - 4:11pm
The New England Wildlife Center brought a gaggle of de-oiled waterfowl back to the Muddy River to live out their best bird lives again. It can be hard to hear the people (they didn't want to use speakers that might annoy the birds), so if you just want to see those birds flapping their way back to the water, skip ahead to 6:00. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 10:19am
SDS Hospitality, which owned the enVision Hotel at 81 South Huntington Ave., last week sold the building to Victory Programs, which has been housing homeless people there since 2022, for $15.8 million, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/30/2024 - 9:34am
Brookline.news reports that while the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River came from a pipe near the Brook House, and while that condo complex had been responsible for past oil spills, officials are not sure it was the source, in part because it had earlier removed heating-oil tanks.
By adamg - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 10:54pm
The Boston LOL spotted this small tree decorated with a single ornament in Franklin Park.
By adamg - Mon, 12/23/2024 - 2:07pm
The city announced today it's installed four vending machines that dispense Narcan, clean syringes and fentanyl test kits - with room for possible later additions that could include pregnancy test kits and socks - and is working to install another eight machines that dispense Narcan across the city. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 11:27am
Say hello to Brian Foley, who now that the national election is over and he no longer has to wave his Trump flag around Southie and getting into fights with teenagers, is supposedly running for the District 2 (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) city council seat now held by Ed Flynn.
By adamg - Fri, 12/13/2024 - 2:33pm
Goldman Sackler went for a walk along Leverett Pond early yesterday afternoon and noticed this EPA Emergency Response SUV parked in the lot between the pond and the Brook House condo complex. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 12/11/2024 - 11:00pm
The New England Wildlife Center reports its workers captured four more birds along the oil-besotted Muddy River in need of cleaning and rehab today, bringing the total number of birds it now has under care to 43. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 11:06pm
Roving UHub photographer Joyce Falk Onyango had to stop when the Santa-crossing lights came on on Washington Street at the Forest Hills T stop yesterday.
By adamg - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 8:49pm
The Brookline Select Board said tonight that state environmental experts have taken the lead in figuring out where the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River downstream from Leverett Pond and that the source has yet to be identified. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/09/2024 - 6:03pm
By adamg - Sat, 12/07/2024 - 10:15am
The Globe reports the city is now expecting to have to pay $91 million for its part of the proposed White Stadium reconstruction, up from its initial estimate of $50 million.
By adamg - Fri, 12/06/2024 - 5:18pm
An eight-year-old suffered a leg injury in an incident on Pershing Road at the Curley School involving a BPS school bus ending up hitting a gate at the lower school around 3 p.m.
Jamaica Plain News reports the injuries were not considered life threatening - and that Curley parents have long complained about how buses park on the sidewalk to await students.
By adamg - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 3:51pm
Several alleged members of a Boston-area drug ring face court appearances today after their arrests on a charge of conspiracy to sell fentanyl and cocaine - in an operation with growing pains that included the high costs of constantly driving or Ubering between Boston and Providence and employees coming down with work-related ailments, from asthma and neck problems to nausea and drug overdoses, according to documents unsealed in federal court today. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/01/2024 - 12:23pm
A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 125 Amory St. in Jamaica Plain around 8:45 a.m. Due to the severity of her injuries, the homicide unit was called in just in case.
By adamg - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:38am
Anya Levy Guyer was at Jamaica Pond this morning when workers began setting up to take down one of the pond's odder, but most beloved trees - the one that had long bent down toward the water, but which began dying late in 2022, a process that accelerated this year as the once narrow split in its trunk grew ever wider and the tree began to pitch itself ever lower into the water. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 11/23/2024 - 11:40am
Stoughton Police canceled an Amber Alert about an hour after it was issued last night after State Police found the woman and her three children in her Rav4 in Egleston Square in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 4:47pm
A roving UHub photographer found herself in the middle of complete insanity at Jackson Square, where one shuttle bus just wasn't going to cut it for all the people just trying to get somewhere this afternoon after an Orange Line train - one of the new and allegedly more reliable Orange Line trains - croaked on the tracks near Green Street around 2 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 2:41pm
A federal judge last week sentenced Royal Benjamin, 64, to five years in prison for robbing a phone store at gunpoint in Jamaica Plain last year - after the clerk refused to buy the two pairs of new Puma sneakers Benjamin carried in, which he'd acquired by robbing somebody at the Downtown Crossing T station. Read more.
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