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Tufts Medical Center had the right to fire ER doctor who refused Covid shots, judge rules
September 20
A federal judge last week dismissed a suit by an emergency-room doctor at Tufts Medical Center over her Covid-related firing in 2021, ruling the hospital's need to protect its patients and staffers from a potentially fatal virus outweighed her refusal to get vaccinated on religious grounds because she felt the vaccines were "developed with or tested on aborted fetal cell lines." Read more.
A plovly meal downtown
September 20
The time had finally come, we decided yesterday, to venture past the usual pizza slices and burgers we tend to eat on Saturdays, so we headed for Nova Restaurant, 131 Tremont St. (around the corner from Winter and across the street from the Park Street T stop), for some Krygystani fare.
Goldenstash eventually grew tired of dying his mustache and just let it grow out in its natural black
September 20
It's been awhile since we've seen Goldenstash, so maybe this example on Broad Street at the Greenway isn't really an update, just some slapdashery by a Dodgers fan.
15-year-old tried shooting somebody in Nubian Square, but missed, police say
September 20
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he fired shots outside 185 Dudley St. in Nubian Square in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot somebody around 11 p.m. on Sept. 10.
Sometimes the best sunrises really are just before a storm
September 20
Handmaid looked up on the Jamaica Plain side of Franklin Park around 6:25 a.m. Read more.
311 complaint of the day: Woman selling puppies in the park
September 19
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint this afternoon about a woman who set up a little area in the Public Garden near Beacon and Brimmer streets, marked by baby gates, at which to market the big black-and-white fluffy puppies she had with her.
East Boston still life
September 19
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but one wonders what the thousand words are behind this scene at an East Boston bus stop that Rob Adams captured the other day.
A sign of things to come
September 19
"Restoring the fabric of our city," CopleyScott17 says of the banner wrapped around the new Citgo Sign platform, which shows us what the sign will look like, in case we've forgotten after these long, long weeks.
Alleged Frog Pond Meta-perv faces five dozen more charges for images found on his phone
September 18
The convicted sex offender already behind bars awaiting trial on charges he used camera-enhanced glasses to video children getting changed at the Frog Pond last month was arraigned today on 69 new counts related to images and videos found on his phone, court records show.
Mr. Culpepper goes to Washington - to press for extending the Orange Line down Blue Hill Avenue
September 18
This just in from the office of City Councilor Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury) ...
Two teens charged with trying to steal some of the scooters police have been seizing of late
September 18
Boston Police report arresting two teens for breaking into a Dorchester tow lot and trying, but failing, to make off with three of the scooters that BPD has been on a tear seizing - including 27 mopeds, scooters and motorcycles.
Junk displayer sought for Green Line demonstration
September 18
Transit Police report they are looking for a self-fluffer who gave a performance of open and gross lewdness on a C Line trolley between Boylston and Kent Street around 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 4.
DA moves to seize $81,000 and several iPhones, one purple with a floral case, seized at alleged Brighton brothel
September 18
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office yesterday began the process to seize money and iPhones that Boston officers and FBI agents confiscated when they raided an alleged brothel being run out of two condos at the Stadia 50 building on Hichborn Street in Brighton.
Court tells Marshfield the state isn't oppressing it by requiring it to zone some land for multifamily housing
September 18
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a state law intended to gradually increase the amount of multifamily housing in towns served by the MBTA is not an illegal "unfunded local mandate," is not an affront to the state's Declaration of Rights and doesn't conflict with other state zoning requirements, so Marshfield Town Meeting needs to either rezone some land to allow apartments or face reductions in state aid.
Feds return safety oversight of the T to the state
September 18
GBH reports the Federal Transit Administration says things have improved enough it no longer has to maintain the sort of close watching it had been...
Teen hanging out with a loaded revolver arrested near Columbus Avenue in Roxbury, police say
September 18
Boston Police report gang-unit officers who'd gotten a tip that a 17-year-old had a gun found him and the gun sitting in an idling car at 30 Academy Ct. in Roxbury around 6:40 p.m. on Thursday.
Yemeni bakery opens in the South End
September 18
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the opening of C'Yool Yemeni Cafe & Bakery at 600 Harrison Ave. in the South End, where Atlantico used to be.
