Let there be lights, at long troublesome parkway intersection in Roslindale
DCR has turned on the traffic and pedestrian-crossing lights at the rejiggered intersection of Walter and Centre streets by the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center, Sophia Snow House, Trinity Lutheran Church and the Arboretum in Roslindale. Read more.
For second time in three days, judge throws out potty-mouthed Doc Email's lawsuit against Belmont news outlet
October 29
Around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a federal judge in Boston told serial failed candidate Shiva Ayyadurai he has no case against the Belmont Voice, this time in a 14-page written ruling that said the outlet didn't break a contract with him to publish an adoring feature about him and his quixotic attempt to unseat Ed Markey because they had no...
Immigrant support groups sue regime for effectively disappearing thousands of people
October 28
Greater Boston Legal Services, the Rian Immigrant Center and other immigrant support groups today charged a new regime policy has effectively disappeared thousands of immigrants by removing data about them from the online ICE system that once listed where they were being held.
Savin Hill bar and taco place to get new owner, who plans no changes
October 28
The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow decides whether to let Driscoll DoCanto and Ken Osherow sell their Savin Bar + Kitchen and the neighboring Ghostpepper Taqueria at 112 Savin Hill Ave. in Dorchester to veteran restaurant manager Brendan Griffin, who says he is planning no changes to the name, operations or hours.
Two hours on a darkened, unmoving commuter-rail train, followed by a walk down the tracks
October 28
NBC Boston reports on an afternoon commute from hell on a Providence Line train near Ruggles yesterday afternoon that also included a 90-minute wait with no information from the T at Ruggles for a train home....
The dream is dead: Chain that proposed two-story Korean BBQ in Allston gives up, plans to sell liquor license to a downtown Taco Bell
October 28
The Boston Licensing Board votes tomorrow on whether to let a Burlington Taco Bell franchisee open a fancy Taco Bell at 16 North St., across from Faneuil Hall, with the alcohol license it has an agreement to buy from a California chain of Korean barbecue place that had planning to use it for a two-story outlet in a converted bank building on Harvard Avenue.
Longtime reporter, anchor Jim Boyd dies, 84
October 28
WCVB reports the death of Jim Boyd, who started in the mailroom of New York's public TV station and eventually worked his way up to anchoring the news here in Boston.
Delays on the Red Line lasted through rush hour, due to a train that wouldn't get under power
October 28
At 7:12 a.m., the MBTA announced ten-minute delays on the Red Line due to what it said was an earlier dead train at Central. The T did not announce the delays had cleared until 9:27 a.m.
