Wu vows to sue if USPS doesn't reverse decision to permanently shut Allston post office
Mayor Wu and other city officials and Allston residents this afternoon demanded the US Postal Service re-open a post office in the neighborhood, at a press conference and rally next to the under-construction Harvard Avenue building where the new Allston post office was supposed to go.
Although the main focus was on Allston, officials from Dorchester, where the Postal Service last week said it would close the Fields Corner post office at the end of the month, allegedly temporarily, and Watertown, where Watertown Square saw its post office closed "temporarily" in 2024, also attended. Read more.
Dorchester bar decides it's probably best not to offer to let patrons cyberstalk their exes with a bartender's phone
October 5
A couple of days ago, the Chester Tavern, 1119 Dorchester Ave., near Savin Hill Avenue, put up an Instagram video that showed a bartender sliding his phone and a mixed drink to you, with a caption reading: "your ex blocked you? come get a drink and I'll let you stalk them on my phone." And underneath, a caption read: "& that's what we call hospitality đ..."
A tree dies in Roslindale
October 5
Crews from a Stoughton tree service spent the morning taking down a white oak tree, possibly 120 years old, that had long shaded Ardale Street near Centre Street in Roslindale.
Man sought for South Huntington sucker punching
October 5
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say walked up to somebody on South Huntington Avenue near the Heath Street T stop.
Mission Hill residents fed up with Northeastern fraternities
October 5
The Fenway News reports on a September meeting of the Community Association of Mission Hill that focused on Greek life in the neighborhood, and not favorably:
At these parties, hundreds of young people - including those under 21 - drink...
Taiwanese exec charged with videoing woman in a shower in Brookline
October 5
Brookline.news reports on the arrest warrant now out for the CEO of a Taiwanese company for a 2024 incident in a Chestnut Hill home.
