The Boston Licensing Board today approved a 2 a.m. closing time for Day & Night Cereal Bar at 6 Tremont St. in Brighton, which will be changing its name to Sweet & Comfy and beefing up its current menu of cereal-drizzled desserts with sandwiches. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers requests by restaurant owners at opposite ends of the city to open into the wee hours. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 289 Corey Rd. in Brighton for a fire in the basement and on the first floor around 3:45 a.m. Read more.
Sarah Iwany came across this moment frozen in time: A turkey by the side of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Brighton.
The driver of this bus atop Jersey barriers at Guest and Arthur streets in Brighton will no doubt have an interesting story to tell his dispatcher how he wound up like that, around 2:10 p.m. No reported injuries.
Boston Police report arresting the woman they say rummaged through people's belongings at a toy drive at the Brighton Center Corrib Pub this past Sunday. Read more.
Photo by Transit PD.
For the third time in two weeks, somebody in a Toyota wound up ensnared on Green Line tracks, this time at the end of the B Line at Boston College. Read more.
A Boston man was arraigned yesterday on charges he stabbed somebody in the back five times after a show at Roadrunner on Guest Street in Brighton shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 1. Read more.
Update: Suspect arrested.
Boston Police report they are looking for a woman they say rummaged through people's belongings at a toy drive at a Brighton restaurant Sunday evening until she found a purse and then made off with it. Read more.
Rendering by Davis Square Architects.
The owners of an unusual "mission style" stucco three-family house sandwiched between two Brighton-style apartment buildings at 1954 Commonwealth Ave. have filed plans to move the building closer to the sidewalk, reconfigure it for six apartments and build a six-story, 20-unit building right behind it. Read more.
Brighton Main Streets reports that Scoop N Scootery at the corner of Washington Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue in Brighton has closed. Fans will now have to trek all the way to Linden Street in Allston for some of its ice cream. Brighton Main Streets adds, though, that another ice-cream place might be moving in.
A man was stabbed in the back across the street from Roadrunner, 89 Guest St. in Brighton, shortly before 2:40 a.m.
The victim was transported by Boston EMS to a local emergency room. A man with a knife tried to stab two other men, but failed.
Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the state wiretap law bars Suffolk County prosecutors from using video recorded by an undercover cop buying drugs from an alleged dealer in East Boston and Brighton because the cop didn't get a warrant first. Read more.
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.
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.
Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man they say repeatedly stabbed another man after a fight that may have started in a liquor store at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Warren Street in Brighton shortly before 10 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the chest outside Sammy's Pizza and Wine Basket & Spirits on Commonwealth Avenue at Warren Street shortly after 10 p.m. Read more.
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.
The co-founder of Flatiron Energy of Boulder, CO met with Brighton residents yesterday to talk at length about the company's proposal for a two-story, 62,000-square foot building filled with lithium-ion batteries on Electric Avenue - except for the one thing most of them wanted to hear more about: How the company would protect them from the risk of a fire at a large electric facility as close as 40 feet to some residents' property. Read more.
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