Council cliffhanger; fire in East Boston, stabbing on Huntington Ave.
Durkan pulls Council power move and creates something the Council rarely has: A cliffhanger
April 1
The agenda for the weekly Wednesday meetings of the Boston City Council are normally set and posted by noon on Monday - state open-meeting requirements and all - but there's typically time set aside at the end of the meetings for unanticipated "late files," matters that councilors deem to have some urgency. And normally, the council president ...
East Boston fire displaces seven
April 1
Boston firefighters responded to 190 Lexington St., near Putnam Street in East Boston, for an attic fire reported around noon.
Boston City Council rejects bid to ask state to end gas sales tax during current crisis
April 1
A bid by one city councilor to put the entire council on record calling for the temporary elimination of the state gas tax to help consumers during the regime's current "little excursion" in Iran went down to defeat when other councilors said the resolution would be pointless in general but more specifically could harm already shaky city finances and even the environment.
Council to consider police staffing levels
April 1
A City Council committee will consider whether Boston has enough police officers after Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, Chinatown, South End, Downtown) and Erin Murphy said current staffing levels are an impending public-health and public-safety crisis.
Woman gets 15 to 20 years for online feud that turned deadly at Park Street
April 1
A Dorchester woman was sentenced today to 15 to 20 years in state prison for manslaughter after she admitted she repeatedly stabbed Jazreanna Sheppard of South Boston outside the Park Street T stop on July 20, 2023, following an increasingly virulent string of social-media posts the two had exchanged in the days prior, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Boston City Council to study a fund to create and bolster independent pharmacies in Boston
April 1
A City Council committee will examine a proposal by Councilor Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury) for a "pharmacy stabilization and access" fund that would help residents maintain neighborhood access to medications and vaccines in an era when chain drugstores are increasingly...
The blue bird of grackleness
April 1
Mary Ellen watched some grackles in West Roxbury yesterday, showing more blue than you'd normally expect from them. The light particularly brought out their blue highlights, she reports.
East Boston street awoken at 6 a.m. by DHS percussion grenades
April 1
DHS agents conducting a raid around 6 a.m. on Tuesday hurled at least three percussion grenades at 85 Lubec St., at the corner of Porter Street in East Boston, according to residents in surrounding buildings.
Long suffering T riders teased with expanded subway lines, on April 1st, of course
April 1
Riders at T stops in Cambridge, Somerville and Medford who were not busy staring at the platform floor or just off into space this morning were greeted with these ads today, advertising extensions to all four T subway lines proposed by "the Coolidge Commission" in a $5,000 ad buy by Cambridge City Councilor and state Senate candidate ...
Man stabbed in the neck on Huntington Avenue, runs into Northeastern dorm
April 1
Update: Suspect arrested.
Northeastern University Police report that a man was stabbed at Huntington Avenue and Gainsborough Street, then made his way into Northeastern's East Village dorm on St. Botolph Street, where police aided him until Boston EMTs and paramedics arrived to transport him to a local hospital.
