Murder in Mattapan; the time a UFO buzzed the Hancock weather beacon
Man shot to death on Woolson Street in Mattapan
May 10
Boston Police report a man was shot at 28 Woolson St. between Wildwood and Leston streets in Mattapan shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Two shot, one in the head, on Kingsdale Street in Dorchester
May 10
Two people were shot at 69 Kingsdale St. in Dorchester around 6:40 p.m.
So the Defense Dept. is releasing UFO files to distract us from [name an outrage]?
May 10
A lot of their files were already public, like the one about the UFO that buzzed the Harvard Bridge, flew around the Hancock weather beacon, then zipped west to hover over WBZ - as first reported by the UHub roving UFO reporter a couple years ago.
Boston all mapped up
May 10
Chris Lovett interviews Andy Woodruff about his new book, Boston in 50 Maps - including a "heat map" based on people's feelings about that eternal Boston topic: Where one neighborhood ends and another begins.
311 complaint of the day: Flowers for Algernon?
May 10
A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about the long dead rat at Carter Playground off Columbus Avenue that somebody covered with flowers and which has apparently become a sight for little kids to contemplate mortality or 1960s era books about a rat and a person given super-intelligence that fades.
Jewish deli in Brookline that has no connection to the Israeli government subject of repeated anti-Israel postering, screaming
May 10
Brookline.news reports on the reaction in Brookline to the more than 40 incidents at Michael's Deli in Coolidge Corner since 2023.
Sure, Boston isn't officially removing any bike lanes, but ...
May 9
A roving UHub bicyclist turned on a camera the other day and videoed the ride along what used to be a bike lane on Boylston Street between Tremont and Washington streets, which has become a parking lane now that the flexposts are gone.
The world in a drop of rain
May 9
Mary Ellen spotted big trees reflected in a tiny raindrop at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
Better start exercising your hand muscles so they don't cramp up filling out your ballot this fall
May 9
CommonWealth Beacon provides the details on the 11, count 'em, 11, referendum questions that could be on the ballot this fall.
EMT injured at fire on Cummins Highway in Mattapan
May 8
Boston firefighters responded to the apartment building at 760 Cummins Highway in Mattapan for a fire around 6 p.m.
Two Boston immigrants agreed to self deport, then the regime kept them locked up for months, hundreds of miles from home
May 8
BINJ.news reports on the cases of two Boston immigrants - one of them one of the Allston Car Wash 9 - who agreed to go back to their homelands, but ICE kept them stuck in gulags down South for months anyway.
Backbreaking work: Using your back to break a T faregate
May 8
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who really put his back into not paying to get onto the T at Park Street around 10 a.m. on Sunday.
Police: Woman shoved to the ground and kicked by teens who stole her wallet in East Boston; one suspect threw tantrum when cops found her
May 8
Boston Police report arresting two teens for robbing, shoving and and kicking a woman who chased them and their pals onto Border Street in East Boston after they allegedly stole her wallet at the Mobil station.
West 1st Street could soon be buzzing after official approval of new restaurant/entertainment complex
May 8
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by the owner of the South End's Beehive to convert three former industrial buildings along West 1st Street in South Boston into a restaurant and entertainment venue to be called King Bee.
Ambulance in Morton Street crash; second ambulance called to transport the patient in the first
May 8
NBC Boston reports on a crash on Morton Street at Harvard Street in Mattapan around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday involving a Boston EMS ambulance and a Jeep. Staco City reports the driver of the Jeep ran away.
Boston has a library of giant puppets
May 8
The kind you can wear in a parade - and borrow from Sara Peattie's puppet library in the basement of Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street. BINJ.news reports.
