Snow; racist won't get his Nazi helmets back; apts planned for DTX
There's something about trees in the snow
January 19
Myron Fletcher went for a walk through Boston Common last night.
John McMahon looked out over his backyard this morning in Cambridge's Huron Village:
The breakfast of snow champions
January 19
When Rob Adams woke up in a snowy Eastie this morning, he knew there was only one thing to have for breakfast. And he had just the periwinkle Fiestaware to put it on.
We note this without any glee: Dead train at Kendall/MIT
January 18
Yesterday, Red Line trains died at JFK/UMass and Charles/MGH. Today's slash-named station that became a final resting place for a Red Line train was Kendall/MIT, where the MBTA reported a dysfunctional train at 9:28 a.m., with a...
311 complaint of the day: Grossest trash-riddled street in Boston as judged by an expert
January 18
A disgusted soul files a 311 complaint about the conditions on Juliette Street in Dorchester:
For a couple months, the House of Saud relocated to Boston
January 18
King Saud of the eponymous Arabia arrived in Boston on Nov. 22, 1961 for a stay at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital - initially for treatment of what the Globe called "a stomach condition," but then, as long as he was here, for two cataract operations.
Shoplifter deters workers at Grove Hall Stop & Shop by pulling out a knife, police say
January 18
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say scooped up stuff inside the Stop & Shop at 460 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester then fended off employees who tried to stop him by displaying "a long silver blade with a green and gold handle, approximately 8-12 inches in length," around 6:40 p.m. on Jan. 3....
What do JFK/UMass and Charles have that's the same? Both had Red Line trains that were taken out of the game
January 17
The MBTA reported a dead train at Charles/MGH at 3:20 p.m. and then another one at 7:01 p.m. at JFK/UMass (or maybe it was the same train, but it started feeling better).
Salem coffeehouse pours new offering for these times
January 17
Wolf Next Door Coffee, 142 Derby St. in Salem, has a new drink - which has no ice.
Judge appeals to Marco Rubio's sense of decency to let wrongfully deported Babson student back in the country
January 17
So she's screwed - although the judge did hold open the possibility of a civil-contempt charge should the regime insist it won't let her back in the country, from which it admits it wrongly deported her from.
11-story Downtown Crossing office building could be turned into apartments
January 16
Synergy Investments today filed plans to turn the 11-story office building it owns at 294 Washington St., across from School Street downtown, into 255 apartments, under the city's office-to-residential tax-abatement plan.
Man who used banana peels to harass nearby Black family loses bid to get back the Nazi helmets and Confederate flags police seized at his house
January 16
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today told a Lexington man who admitted to harassing the only Black family in his neighborhood - and to owning an arsenal of guns and ammunition - that police can destroy the Nazi and Confederate paraphernalia police found in his house.
