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By adamg - 11/13/24 - 12:51 pm

A federal judge ruled yesterday that a fired landscaper at Boston College can continue his case that his 2021 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots violated his religious rights under the First Amendment. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 10:38 pm

The Heights reports Boston firefighters responded to the area of Lake Street and Undine Road around 2:45 p.m. for a brush fire in woods there.

The entire state is under a red flag warning until at least 6 p.m. on Wednesday because of a drought that has persisted even as deciduous trees shed their leaves, creating huge swaths of particularly flammable areas.

By adamg - 10/31/24 - 12:17 pm
William Galvin and William Evans speak against proposed fancy food place

Secretary of State Bill Galvin, BC Police Chief Bill Evans lose battle against proposed wine and cheese at hearing.

The Boston Licensing Board today approved a packie license for a proposed gourmet food shop in the block of stores next to the Boston College Green Line stop over the strong objections of both the school - which serves beer and wine at on-campus events, including football games - and Secretary of State Bill Galvin, who lives just up the street. Read more.

By adamg - 9/24/24 - 2:05 pm
Rendering of proposed provisions store

Rendering of proposed store's interior.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a UPS store at 2193-2201 Commonwealth Ave. with a 900-square-foot "provision" market focusing on high-end beverages - and kosher wines - and prepared gourmet foods, aimed not at the thousands of underage Boston College students right across the street but at nearby residents looking for a more convenient place to stock up than Cleveland Circle or Brookline. Read more.

By adamg - 9/4/24 - 10:57 am

A federal judge yesterday threw out what was left of a class-action lawsuit by Boston College students against the school for the way it shifted classes from in person to online in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 spread across the state. Read more.

By adamg - 8/31/24 - 10:45 am
Surveillance photos of prowler

Surveillance photos via BPD.

Boston Police report the creepy eye-covered man a Gerald Road resident saw on her patio is also wanted for burglary and skulking incidents in the area dating to June. Read more.

By adamg - 8/29/24 - 9:39 am
Skulker

Boston Police report they are looking for a prowler spotted on Gerald Road, off Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College, Tuesday night.
Read more.

By adamg - 7/19/24 - 2:14 pm
Rendering of proposed BC archive building

Rendering by Shepley Bulfinch.

Boston College has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to build a three-story, roughly 45,000-square-foot building to store collections of religious stuff "as well as limited artwork and cultural artifacts" on a hillside between its Theology and Ministry Library and its St. John's Seminary property off Lake Street in Brighton. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/24 - 11:57 am

The Heights provides a rundown of the legal wrangling involving a suit by some employees over the college's alleged mishandling of retirement funds. US District Court Judge William Young rejected BC's request for him to simply throw the case out, calling its strident efforts to block a trial "a monumental waste of time."

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 11:10 am
2000 Commonwealth Ave. after it collapsed

Photo by Stanley Forman, from the BPL Brearley Collection.

On Jan. 25, 1971, a nearly finished 16-story apartment building at 2000 Commonwealth Ave., near Boston College, collapsed, killing four construction workers and injuring a couple dozen more in a slow domino-like pancaking that started with a roof collapse. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/23 - 8:58 pm
Versa on the train tracks

Photo of the offending Versa by TPD.

Transit Police report the B Line was knocked out of commission for about 45 minutes around 9 p.m. on Wednesday after a driver somehow wound up facing towards Newton on the inbound tracks at Commonwealth Avenue and St. Thomas More Road. The driver of the diminutive sedan told police "he took a wrong turn and ended up stuck on the tracks." No injuries, at least.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 11:57 pm

Boston firefighters responded to the Campanella Way side of Boston College's Alumni Stadium for a fire that started on the roof, then spread through the stadium's HVAC system shortly after 10:45 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 9:58 am

The Heights reports on the state of BC's most recent acquisitions: The 23-acre former Mount Alvernia High School in Newton and the former Pine Manor College in Brookline. Read more.

By adamg - 10/26/23 - 10:58 am

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Walsh Wine & Spirits, 388 Washington St. in Brighton Center, which police detectives cited on July 19 for selling tequila, rum and other drinks to two guys who were under 21, in the latest such incident at a place that had become popular among Boston College and Boston University students. Read more.

By adamg - 9/23/23 - 10:00 pm

The Heights reports a law firm hired by 28 members of the Boston College swimming and diving teams says school officials jumped the gun in suspending all of them over alleged hazing before the school had even finished its investigation. Read more.

By adamg - 8/8/23 - 4:09 pm
Flooded St. Thomas More Road

A roving UHub correspondent decided discretion was the better part of driving valor and turned around when he saw how flooded St. Thomas More Road, between the BC lower campus and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, was after today's torrent. Read more.

By adamg - 6/5/23 - 5:11 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week ordered the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission to give Gopuff, a Philadelphia-based delivery company, its license to deliver alcohol back while its lawsuit against the commission proceeds. Read more.

By adamg - 6/1/23 - 9:35 am

The Boston Police Department reports detectives are investigating a series of residential break-ins in an area along Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College over the past couple of weeks. Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/23 - 12:45 pm

Gopuff, a Philadelphia chain that last week lost its state license to deliver alcohol after inspectors cited it for repeatedly delivering alcohol to BC freshmen, yesterday sued to get its license back, arguing it's completely changed its ID and training policies - that it's unfair the state didn't rescind its license until nearly 2 1/2 years after the violations and that the punishment was particularly unfair for a "first time" violation. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:01 pm

The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission yesterday ordered the immediate shutdown of the GoPuff delivery outlet at 82-84 Needham St. in Newton after hearing evidence that over five days in the fall of 2021, its drivers delivered beer, vodka, wine, tequila, hard seltzer and even Four Loko to Boston College freshmen at a variety of locations on and near the BC campus. Read more.

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