Boston in 2025: Storrowing December 30 Those bright new yellow signs DCR put up don't seem to have done the trick: Truck drivers continued to hurtle onto Storrow Drive and slam into the underside of overpasses. And, of course, bridges across the region engaged in combat with trucks
Boston in 2025: 311 complaints December 29 Every day, scores of people use Boston's 311 system to report potholes, rat infestations, broken gaslights and the more annoying of their neighbors. Here are some of the best complaints filed in 2025: Read more. Good old Red Line gets whacked
No Christmas magic at Millennium Park December 25 Mary Ellen was down at Millennium Park today, walking by the parking lot for the canoe launch and river-side path when she noticed some eagle drama involving two birds perched on adjoining poles along the train tracks. Read more. Orange Line cars
But first, a brief note: We'll be off tomorrow, and again on Jan. 1. Here's to a good Christmas and a New Year! Flu surges in Boston; still not too late to get vaccinated, city says December 23 The Boston Public Health Commission reports that flu
Dedham barbecue place closing December 22 Boston Restaurant Talk reports Blue Ribbon BBQ in Dedham Center is closing at the end of the month. Amtrak, some commuter lines going nowhere fast; overhead electric wires just did not last December 22 NBC Boston reports Amtrak has had to halt all its
What would snow be without some bunting? December 22 Mary Ellen reports snow buntings were perching at Castle Island on Sunday, just in time for the snow on Tuesday. And we might get enough for a white Christmas. It's really starting to be unfair: Another train dies at
Brown shooter also murdered MIT professor - whom he went to college with - prosecutors say December 18 Claudio Neves Valente, who authorities say killed himself as law enforcement closed in on him at a Salem, NH self-storage facility tonight, murdered not just two Brown students on Saturday, but an
Owners of two small Mattapan Square markets charged with more than $6 million in SNAP fraud and selling rice stolen from programs feeding starving children December 17 Two men who run neighboring micro-markets on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square - one just 150 square feet - were arrested today
Man charged with murdering woman in her Codman Square apartment in 1997 December 16 Boston Police report arresting a man they say stabbed Ruth Foster, 56, to death in her apartment on Withington Street in Dorchester on Oct. 14, 1997.... Couple wins approval to replace tiny Charlestown storefront with tiny
State promises it won't work with Google again to install disease-tracking software on people's phones December 15 The state Department of Public Health and some Western Massachusetts residents have reached a settlement of a lawsuit over the department's work with Google during the pandemic
311 complaint of the day: Never change, Southie December 14 A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about the apres-snow situation at K and East 7th streets in South Boston: We got just enough snow ... December 14 Somebody was able to scoop up enough snow to create a pair of
Regime demands Boston stop redlining rich white people December 12 The regime yesterday told Mayor Wu it is looking at possible criminal action against her and other city officials for the perfidy of trying to stop displacement of poor minority residents and having the temerity of running programs that try