Peeping tom in Hancock Village; two houses catch fire in Dorchester

Rabbit on grass behind a Keep Off the Grass sign in the Back Bay
Hey, can't you read? Photo by Alice.

Downtown denizens to get another late-ish night taco option

October 2

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday gave Taco John's, 77 Summer St. downtown, permission to stay open until 2 a.m.

Three-alarm fire injures two on Becket Street in Dorchester; then spreads to neighboring house

October 1

Boston firefighters responded to 7 Becket St. for what turned into a 3-alarm fire around 7 p.m. on Wednesday - which spread to an adjoining house at 2038 Dorchester Ave.

Board holds off any action on proposed East Boston restaurant neighbors hate even after owner agreed not to seek a liquor license

October 1

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a second hearing on a request from Mery Pereanez-Quintana for a food-serving license to open a restaurant called El Parche at 636-638 Bennington St. in East Boston.

Regime shutdown doesn't affect Paul Revere House, other sites along the Freedom Trail

October 1

The Paul Revere House reported today it remains open. The USS Constitution Museum, however, is shut.

Police hunt Hancock Village self-rubbing peeping Tom

October 1

Brookline Police report they are looking for a man they say peered into somebody's window as he masturbated on Gerry Road on the Brookline side of the Hancock Village apartment complex shortly before 8 p.m. on Sept. 23.

Somebunny can't read

October 1

Alice, a roving UHub photographer, captured this rabbit blatantly ignoring this sign on the lawn out front of the New England College of Optometry on Beacon Street at Hereford in the Back Bay (or maybe it's waiting for an appointment to get fitted for some contacts and just can't see the sign)....

UMass Boston planning a new building for its nursing program

October 1

The Dorchester Reporter reports on UMass Boston's development plans, which include a new five-story building to consolidate a nursing program now scattered across the campus.

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