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By adamg - 5/8/24 - 2:56 pm

The MBTA was forced to rustle up some buses to get Riverside Line riders between Fenway and Reservoir due to an issue with the overhead wires near Brookline Hills.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 11:50 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the LLC a local developer set up to help turn an old marina where the Neponset River meets Dorchester Bay into residential and office space and a new marina filed for bankruptcy just hours before the land was set to be auctioned off.

The other developer on the project sued the LLC in February, allegedly for failing to pay an energy consultant on the project.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 11:42 am

Boston Police report arresting a man they say sent another man to the hospital with critical injuries last month. Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 10:04 am

The T is reporting delays of up to 15 minutes along Beacon Street due to a trolley that diverted to Train Valhalla at St. Mary's.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 10:02 am

Bright and early, well, early at any rate on this rainy day, like 5:21 a.m., the MBTA announced delays on the Blue Line due to signal problems near Orient Heights. Fortunately, the T updated at 5:46 a.m. that the problem had been fixed.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 9:50 am

Boston Police responded to River Street and Edgewater Drive in Mattapan on a report of at least four rounds fired around 9:20 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/24 - 7:32 am
Two views of Cambridge's land, next to the gas-company site

Two views of Cambridge's land next to the gas-company site, from the company's affidavit.

A Texas gas-pipeline company yesterday asked a federal judge to order the city of Cambridge to let it cut down trees on a city-owned lot in Lincoln so it can haul in some pipeline equipment for installation on a neighboring parcel the company owns. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 3:47 pm

The Courthouse News Service reports on a hearing today before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on the City Council's decades-long policy of having a local member of the clergy open its weekly meetings with an invocation.

The hearing came on the Satanic Temple's appeal of a district court judge's ruling allowing the council to continue not inviting the group to give an invocation.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 3:14 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to build 26 affordable condos on three city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue, between Olney and Everton streets, and a fourth vacant lot on Eunice Street in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 2:37 pm
Rendeirng of expanded High Street building

Rendering by Anthony Pisani, showing new wings coming off existing house in center.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to expand a 3-family house at 16 High St. in Dorchester to nine units, following a hearing that turned into a mini-debate about the future of Meetinghouse Hill and Dorchester's other residential hills - Jones, Popes and Savin. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 12:38 pm
Rendering of proposed 10 Hichborn St.

Rendering by Embarc.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans for a six-story, 76-unit condo building on Hichborn Street at North Beacon Street in Brighton, the latest residential building proposed by New Balance to go along with its redevelopment of the Guest Street corridor. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 11:40 am

A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Roxbury man to nearly four years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm following his arrest on gun charges just a week after he was released from prison from an 18-month sentence for assault with a firearm. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 10:55 am

The Zoning Board of Appeals today approved plans to replace the old Crate & Barrel on Boylston Street with a four-story restaurant with mini-golf. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 9:45 am

The MBTA started the morning by announcing delays on the Orange Line due to a dead new train near North Station.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 9:35 am
School bus going the wrong way down Liverpool Street

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a school-bus driver headed the wrong way down the one-way section of Liverpool Street in East Boston this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 11:34 pm

An East Boston Municipal Court judge today ordered Jackie Lee Edelstein, 84, held in the Suffolk County jail pending a dangerousness hearing on Wednesday, following his arrest on charges he stabbed a neighbor in the neck at the Brandywyne apartment complex in East Boston Friday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 9:30 pm

Bruce Mohl, who goes back to the days when CommonWealth was a quarterly print journal, wrote today he will be stepping down later this year.

I’m not sure what I will do next, but I hope it’s as interesting and fun as what I do now.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 9:11 pm

Jacqueline Jones, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was announced as the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize today for her No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Amazon link). Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 3:41 pm

State Police report a Salem woman this morning led police from the North Shore into Boston on a wild chase full of crashed cars and gates - at the Coast Guard base in the North End and at Fenway Park, both of which police say she rammed into with her 2024 Honda Accord. Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 2:06 pm

Sometime in the mid-1950s, Nishan Bichajian snapped the Washington Street el passing the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Washington at what is now Washington and Msgr. Reynolds Way.

The el-less view in 2022: Read more.