Storm knocks out power; are you missing a snake?
Lightning hits house on Erie Street in Dorchester
May 19
Boston firefighters responded to 52 Erie St. near Greenwood Street in Dorchester after lightning hit the roof around 6:20 p.m.
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Boom: Storm rolls in, Boston blinks out
May 19
The thunderstorm that rolled across Boston shortly before 6 p.m. knocked out power across the city. Eversource is now reporting more than 51,000 homes and businesses lost power.
MSPCA looks for owner of South End snake
May 19
The MSPCA reports it was able to capture the milk snake spotted at Tremont Street and Concord Square in the South End on Sunday and is now looking for its owner - or, failing that, somebody to adopt it....
Boston theater still playing it too safe, mostly ignoring the current situation, critic says
May 19
Robert Israel writes too many productions around here are still just playing it too safe and putting on "retreads."
It's really way too hot to whine, but the C Line's dead in Brookline
May 19
At 4:35 p.m., the MBTA reported an "overhead wire problem" at Fairbanks Street in Brookline that stopped a trolley right in its tracks there. Service was standing by for awhile, but by and by the T realized the problem wasn't getting any better and started rounding up some buses to route around the problem and now there is bustitution between...
311 complaint of the day: O'Bryant students suffering in classroom saunas
May 19
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint this afternoon about the ovens that classrooms at the John D. O'Bryant School turned into today:
Add a dead train to the Red Line mix, so now in need of a double fix
May 19
Turns out the recalcitrant switch at JFK/UMass is continuing to be all balky, and now, the MBTA reports, a Red Line train suffered heat prostration or melted or something at North Quincy and so the T is warning riders of 25-minutes delays and...
Plucky Allston snow pile valiantly tries to stay at least knee high for the Fourth of July, but today will be tough
May 19
Ari Ofsevit snapped the Great Allston Snow Pile, near the Allston/Cambridge turnpike ramps, today (with comparison shots from April and last week).
Homeland Security poring through Massachusetts voter rolls in search of foreign voters; says it found one in Saugus
May 19
A Canadian national with permanent residency who lives in Saugus was arrested this morning on charges of unlawful voting by an alien and casting a fraudulent ballot - by a Homeland Security agent who used to work as elections coordinator for the town.
Red Line riders had a reason to bitch; at JFK/UMass a busted switch
May 19
At 6:59 a.m., the MBTA reported things were not going well on the Red Line due to "a switch problem" at JFK/UMass. The T did not specify if this was inbound, where the two branches come together, or outbound, where they split, but the effect was the same: The Red Line became the Heinz ketchup of subway lines. At 9:16, the T announced the...
