Council to consider parking meters in neighborhood shopping districts
Parking meters in Roslindale Square?
February 26
The Boston City Council yesterday agreed to consider the creation of "parking benefit districts" in neighborhood shopping districts with growing residential development, in which parking meters would be installed to try to free up parking spaces for customers of local stores by cutting down on the number of nearby residents using the streets.
Mystery pig leg pops up in Newton
February 27
The Heights reports on the "pig leg or flank" found near a walking trail at Auburndale Cove on Sunday. Something doesn't seem quite kosher, so Newton Police are continuing to investigate the porcine part - as well as the literal red...
Assemblyhenge
February 26
Are there Druids in Somerville? SwirlyGrrl this evening captured Assemblyhenge, when the sun lined up just so with some of the buildings at the Somerville complex. And then she hopped over to Wellington, where she had no beef with the sunset (will we ever get tired of making Wellington beef cracks? No, we will not):...
311 complaint of the day: Over-eager Boston trash collectors were taking space savers early
February 26
Two people filed 311 complaints today about trash collectors grabbing their space savers before the end of the 48-hour grace period at 6 p.m.
Pepper-spraying puncher sought for attack at Prudential on the Green Line
February 26
Transit Police report they are looking for a woman they say "viciously punched" a 71-year-old man in the face, then sprayed him with pepper spray, around 3 p.m. on Feb. 17 at the Prudential stop on the Green Line.
Jamaica Plain losing a seafood place
February 26
Jason Tucker announced today he's closing his Bluefin restaurant and seafood market at 660 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain - although he will continue to sell fresh, smoked and tinned fish at the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale Winter farmers markets.
Is this Loon Mountain?
February 26
Kevin snapped what appears to be a four-story-tall snow mountain atop part of the Harvard Memorial Train Yard, between Soldiers Field Road, Cambridge Street and the turnpike ramps.
Dorchester man charged with threatening to resolve a dispute with Unemployment by showing up with a gun
February 26
A Dorchester man who had some sort of problem with his unemployment payments allegedly told a call taker at the state Department of Unemployment Assistance on Cambridge Street on Beacon Hill that if it weren't settled, he be heading over there with a gun, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Judge rules regime can't just dump immigrants in some random country they're not even from
February 26
A federal judge in Boston concluded yesterday the regime is violating both the Constitution and federal law by flying immigrants to "third" countries to which they have no connection but where they face the prospect of persecution, torture and death without giving them a formal chance to protest.
