A ship that uses ammonia for fuel; Dorchester Food Co-op running out of cash
Ammonia-powered ship docks at Boston
August 17
Eric Bender got a close look today at the Green Pioneer, a Singapore-flagged ore carrier that is the first to have engines that can run either on traditional fuel oil or on ammonia gas - which unlike the oil does not release carbon when it burns....
Watching the sunset
August 17
Mary Ellen captured a couple watching the sunset at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this evening.
Quebec UFO cult whose symbol is a swastika entwined with a Star of David plans another topless-women parade on the Common
August 17
A pair of groups affiliated with Raelism, a cult with its roots atop an extinct French volcano, is planning a march of topless women from the Embrace to the State House at noon on Aug. 26 to give their support to state legislation that would let women go bare breasted like men and totally not to try to attract new followers to its beliefs, rather than trying older methods, such as free meals, perish the thought.
Attention Allston: Eat more spiders
August 17
On Commonwealth Avenue at Griggs Street in Allston, Marcel Mensah has converted an old traffic-control box into a spider digester.
State looking at new Charles River crossing that would just be for pedestrians, bicyclists
August 17
Streetsblog Mass reports that MassDOT has begun roughing out the idea, first proposed by the Museum of Science, for a pedestrian/bicyclist bridge on the Charles River Basin side of the museum,...
311 complaint of the day: We don't need this kind of creative reuse of abandoned bicycles
August 17
An concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the situation on Garden Court Street in the North End, where somebody is now trying to see how many abandoned micro-liquor bottles he can balance on one set of handlebars on an abandoned bicycle....
Fighting dictatorship as American as apple pie
August 16
Woman of a Certain Age photographed people protesting the Overripe Pumpkin and his regime in Newton Center today.
Man shot in the back on Harvard Street in Dorchester
August 16
Police and paramedics responded to 326 Harvard St. in Dorchester for a man shot around 4:25 p.m.
Argument ends with man stabbed repeatedly outside Grove Hall supermarket
August 16
WBZ reports a man was stabbed several times outside the Stop & Shop at 460 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 12:15 p.m.
Dorchester Food Co-op says it's running out of cash, could soon close
August 16
The Dorchester Food Co-op, 195 Bowdoin St. in Dorchester, is urging members to shop more - and get more folks to the store - because its cash reserves are being drained to the point where it might have to...
A visit to the Charles Creek
August 16
Mary Ellen reports she was able to walk out into the middle of what used to be the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today - the storm the other day didn't do much to restore the levels in the fastest shrinking section of the river.
Appeals court upholds punishment for Cambridge cop who called George Floyd 'a career criminal, a thief and druggie' in a Facebook post
August 16
A federal appeals court in Boston yesterday upheld the administrative leave and four-day suspension a veteran Cambridge cop got for a 2021 Facebook post in which he called police-brutality victim George Floyd "a career criminal, a thief and druggie," concluding the Cambridge Police Department's need to maintain its "public trust" outweighed...
Man pulled out from under Blue Line train at Government Center
August 15
WCVB reports the man was taken away with serious injuries after being pulled from the tracks shortly after 11 a.m.
Work to convert crumbling Jamaica Plain church into affordable housing and a cultural center could begin soon
August 15
The Hyde Square Task Force reports it has completed the sale of the former Blessed Sacrament Church on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain to Pennrose, a developer that could start work within the next couple months to...
Citing Thoreau, state's highest court orders some Concord homeowners to stop blocking a path through the woods
August 15
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that land owners along a stretch of what is now a walking path through Concord woods have no right to block the public from meandering down the way to enjoy the same experience as Thoreau did when he helped survey its path....
Pols who demanded Fernandes Anderson quit the day she was indicted are saying, whoa, we need to learn more about Tompkins
August 15
WBUR did a roundup of local politicians(link is external) who are saying, yeah, Steve Tompkins is charged with a serious crime, but hey, he's innocent until proven guilty and we just need more of those goshdarned facts before we consider whether he might want to mosey on out of his job as sheriff.
