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By adamg -
1/29/25 - 11:01 am
It's normally good advice, anyway, but takes on added urgency due to bird flu. Read more.
By adamg -
1/29/25 - 9:37 am
Rendering of new Great Scott awning by CambridgeSeven.
A developer and two music impresarios this week filed detailed plans with the Boston Planning Department for a nine-story building at the corner of Harvard Avenue and Cambridge Street in Allston that will feature a return of Great Scott from the other end of Harvard as well as the continued existence of O'Brien's Pub, all topped by 139 apartments. Read more.
By adamg -
1/28/25 - 3:10 pm
HorizonMass reports on a company gloating about its FAA approval without really specifying just why it wants to have drones zipping and hovering right over your head, although a month or so ago, it announced it had successfully finished using drones to deliver medications in a pilot with Mass. General, but in a city and state with few guardrails on what surveillance-eager authorities could also use them for.
By adamg -
1/28/25 - 2:39 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected plans by the venerable Hatoff's on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain to add more gas pumps, after nearby residents fumed over what they said would be more pollution and noise from motorists filling their tanks with the cheap gas. Read more.
By adamg -
1/28/25 - 10:20 am
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by City Realty to add four stories and 14 apartments to the building where the Glenville Stops bar used to be at 85-93 Glenville Ave. in Allston. Read more.
By adamg -
1/27/25 - 10:27 pm
Boston.com posts a copy of the genial invite from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, who is now heavily invested in sniffing out immigrants under all the beds now that he can no longer continue his crusade against Hunter Biden, given Biden's pardon and the fact that Comer's star witness against him has pleaded guilty to making up shit about the Bidens (and also evading taxes)....
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By adamg -
1/27/25 - 6:02 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports Josh Kraft has filed papers with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, which will let him begin to raise money to run for mayor in the fall elections.
By adamg -
1/27/25 - 3:39 pm
A school psychologist for Newton Public Schools today sued over her 2022 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots, saying she had a legitimate religious reason to avoid the shots: Her Greek Orthodox church is against the use of substances derived from aborted babies, which she claims Covid-19 vaccines are from. Read more.
By adamg -
1/27/25 - 10:39 am
Reports coming in from all over (Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, the rest of the Boston area and southern New Hampshire) of some shaking around 10:25 a.m. Read more.
By adamg -
1/27/25 - 10:13 am
A man drove into at house at 167 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester around 2:15 a.m. Read more.
By adamg -
1/27/25 - 9:31 am
The Boston Licensing Board last week approved Koushik Babu Koganti's plans to re-open Little Steve's Pizzeria at 1114 Boylston St., near Mass. Ave.
But after meeting with the Fenway Civic Association, Koganti agreed to close the pizza shop at 2 a.m. instead of 3 a.m. most nights, and 2:30 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.
By adamg -
1/26/25 - 1:19 pm
Photo by Edmnud L. Mitchell
No, not R, but T. T Wharf used to extend out from what is now Christopher Columbus Park, as an extension to Long Wharf (which itself used to be a half mile long). Read more.
By adamg -
1/25/25 - 11:53 pm
A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 25 Polk St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 11:40 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg -
1/25/25 - 2:18 pm
The other day, Greg Cook took the Orange Line to Oak Grove, then walked about 15 minutes up to the Cascade, a 40-foot waterfall on Shilly Shally Brook in Melrose's part of the Middlesex Fells. He has more photos at the link, and more specific directions.
By adamg -
1/25/25 - 11:28 am
WFXT reports that yesterday morning, some guy in a masked tried making off with the satellite smashed into an Altima on Washington Street downtown - tearing it off the car and dragging it a few feet before realizing that damn, that thing is heavy and, probably, that he had no place to store such a large object.
By adamg -
1/24/25 - 5:12 pm
The State House News Service reports the MBTA thinks all that track work on the Red Line means they could soon get those trains up to 50 m.p.h. - and that on at least one stretch, the Orange Line might top off at 55 m.p.h.
By adamg -
1/24/25 - 4:08 pm
Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller reports UMass Amherst is looking to see if any developers might be interested in doing something with 16 acres of prime land just up the road a bit from the Boston line at its satellite campus where Mount Ida College used to be. Read more.
By adamg -
1/24/25 - 2:36 pm
Building the new City Hall in 1966. Source.
The Boston Landmarks Commission has officially designated City Hall as a landmark building. Read more.
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