Vague promises no longer enough for Allston and Brighton residents who want a decent community center
What's old is new again near the Garden
April 11
Liam was one of the 17,850 people who attended the Boston Fleet hockey game at the Garden tonight, so couldn't help but notice the sign at a Friend Street parking lot that was suddenly correct again, more than two decades after the arena stopped being the FleetCenter.
The side of the Citgo sign you don't usually see
April 11
Derek Lessing snapped the Citgo sign's svelter side from across the river in Cambridge - so sort of like the view of the Hancock Building from that one spot on Boylston Street near Dartmouth, only not quite as tall.
Vague promises no longer enough for Allston and Brighton residents, who are planning a rally for a decent community center
April 11
Allston and Brighton residents who feel insulted by a vague City Hall promise of $10 million being set aside just to study building a new community center at the old Jackson-Mann School are planning a demonstration there on Tuesday to demand more money and a specific timeline for finally getting the long promised replacement for the current center.
State trooper admits to defrauding a Covid relief fund
April 10
A retired State Police sergeant from Boston agreed today to plead guilty to forging a tax form to get a $21,220 federal loan/grant intended for supporting small businesses during the pandemic.
Sand and gravel company sues over proposed neighboring residential complex in Charlestown; raises specter of squashed pedestrians, bicyclists and toddlers
April 10
Boston Sand and Gravel this week sued a developer that has won the right to turn a pair of parking lots on New Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown into a residential development, saying the plans, centered on a road now used by 18-wheelers and large cement mixers, will lead to death and mayhem because giant trucks just don't mix well with pedestrians, bicyclists and little kids.
Long line to get into the new DTX Uniqlo where the Barnes & Noble used to be
April 10
A roving UHub photographer was kind of amazed to see the line of people waiting to get into the new Uniqlo on its first day open at 399 Washington St. He reports the line curved onto Winter Street and then went all the way up to Tremont.
Red Line rolling through the South End
April 10
Johnmcboston captured the latest of the new Red Line cars being hauled to the MBTA's Cabot Yard through the South End, on East Berkeley Street last night.
Meta will have to defend itself in state court from charges that Instagram is a menace to kids
April 10
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Attorney General Andrea Campbell can continue her suit against Meta over what she argues is the way Instagram is designed to suck children in and never let them go and over the alleged lies from Meta that its "age gating" actually works to keep children from turning into slavering screen junkies.
Two charged with gun, bear spray and rock attack in Dorchester
April 10
Boston Police report arresting two people they say used an assortment of weapons in an armed robbery and beating on Topliff Street on Wednesday - and say they nabbed a third person at the scene on outstanding warrants.
