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 - 2/12/25 - 12:05 pm
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Gavin Moseley, who operates Borrachito and the Garret in the Echelon building at 70 Pier 4 Blvd. in the Seaport, open a third joint next door, a sports bar called Rocco's. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 2:19 pm
The owners of the one-story Stats Bar and Grille in South Boston's Perkins Square want to replace it with a five-story building with a ground-floor restaurant and four floors of apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/25 - 9:10 am
Butternugz enjoyed the sunrise this morning from the tip of the Black Falcon Pier before the snow started.
By adamg - 1/20/25 - 1:53 pm
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a cat that only appears to be pining for the fjords on West 8th Street in South Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 1/12/25 - 10:25 pm
Boston.com reports on a crash around 9:20 a.m. in Andrew Square that killed a pedestrian and, after the vehicle slammed into a building, sent the driver and a passenger to the hospital with critical injuries.
By adamg - 1/6/25 - 11:10 pm
Stanley Staco posts the message BPS sent to Excel students, teachers and parents today, in advance of a more detailed explanation tomorrow about their options after the South Boston school is shut.
Also slated for closing: The Dever School in Dorchester.
By adamg - 12/24/24 - 5:37 pm
Boston Police report a keen-eyed cadet working with C-6 officers "spreading holiday cheer" by delivering toys to deserving South Boston kids this morning spotted somebody who seemed to be a bit weighted down with packages - specifically, a woman who already had "notoriety among concerned locals" as a package thief. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/24 - 9:46 am
Said Ahmed filed paperwork with the state in October to run for the District 7 city council seat now held by Tania Fernandes Anderson, but only sent out a press release about it yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/3/24 - 10:54 pm
A woman was shot in the ankle at 8 Rev. Burke St. in the Old Colony development off Dorchester Street in South Boston around 8:05 p.m.
The woman was transported to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 12/3/24 - 9:59 am
Boston was hoping to send out property-tax bills this month with a bit of a break for homeowners. Only problem: state Sen. Nick Collins, who represents South Boston and Dorchester, managed to get any discussion of a bill to let the city temporarily set a higher rate on commercial property until at least Thursday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/18/24 - 9:29 pm
BostonTimelapse looked out of his South Boston window towards the Blue Hills Reservation around 7:50 tonight and saw the red-hued smoke from brush fires in the park. He reports that an hour later, the fires, or at least the glow from them, had died down. Read more.
By adamg - 11/15/24 - 10:59 pm
A 16-year-old was arraigned today on charges he opened fire on the Red Line platform at Broadway during rush hour last Friday, sending one man to the hospital with gunshot wounds to his thigh, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
By adamg - 11/15/24 - 10:48 pm
The Huntington News reports on a community meeting in South Boston last week about plans to add more BlueBike stations, which some residents boisterously declared would hurt families, young children, senior citizens and people in wheelchairs. A possible site next to the neighborhood Vietnam Veterans Memorial was decried as "sacrilege."
By adamg - 11/13/24 - 11:25 am
WS Development is working to re-open District Hall at 75 Northern Ave. in the Seaport, but with a new name and with a mission that will include offering space to non-profit and community groups that have nothing to do with tech, now that the Innovation District turned Seaport is an actual neighborhood. Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/24 - 8:40 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
A man was shot in the leg on a platform at the Broadway Red Line station around 5:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 11/1/24 - 9:12 am
WBUR reports a group at UMass Boston is experimenting with adding honeycomb-like structures to seawalls along Chelsea Creek in East Boston and on Boston Harbor in the Seaport to see if they will become refuges for both plants and shellfish, turning what are now basically barren stone walls into greener spaces full of life.
By adamg - 10/28/24 - 3:02 pm
As promised in the morning by the National Weather Service, the smelly haze that settled in over the Boston area from brush fires along the North Shore lifted early this afternoon. But when Josh Bittker looked out of his Seaport window this afternoon, he could still see smoke rising from north of the city.
By adamg - 10/22/24 - 4:19 pm
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
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