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01/24/2025

The crate Faneuil Hall came in is now an official city landmark
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/crate-faneuil-hall-came-now-official-city-landmark

The Boston Landmarks Commission has officially designated City Hall as a landmark building. Read more.

01/24/2025

Licensing board to re-open applications for valuable new liquor licenses to encourage more applicants in underserved neighborhoods
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/licensing-board-re-open-applications-valuable-new

The Boston Licensing Board decided yesterday to re-open the application period for the 12 "unrestricted" all-alcohol licenses the state granted the city last year - which would immediately become worth $600,000 or more - with board members saying they want to see more applications from neighborhoods...

01/23/2025

Allandale Farm, on the Jamaica Plain/Brookline line, this week filed plans to replace its current cramped farmstand with a larger "market barn" open year round and its current of small retail greenhouses with one larger greenhouse. Read more.

01/23/2025

Queens resident charged with trafficking women for s*x in luxury apartments in Packards Corner
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/queens-resident-charged-trafficking-women-s*x

Boston Police report arresting a Queens man on charges he was using two luxury apartments at 55 Brighton Ave. in Allston as brothels. Read more.

01/22/2025

A federal judge ruled today that Boston Medical Center had no way to safely accommodate a neonatal intensive care nurse's profession of faith against both Covid-19 shots and face masks and so had the right to fire her for refusing to get vaccinated. Read more.

01/22/2025

Feds say stealing and altering checks wasn't enough for Mission Hill gang member; he's now also charged with fraudulently obtaining Covid-19 relief funds
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/feds-say-stealing-and-altering-checks-wasnt-enough

An alleged member of the Mission Hill Gang who is already faces charges with his pals that they stole checks out of mailboxes, altered and cashed them faces new federal allegations that he collected pandemic unemployment and payroll funds based on bogus statements and forged Social Security cards. R...

01/22/2025

A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.

01/22/2025

A man was shot in the area of Heath and Walden streets in Jamaica Plain shortly after 9 p.m. A few minutes later, police found the victim in a Mildred Hailey apartment at 26 Heath St. Not long after, police found a shot-up car at 1633 Tremont St. in Brigham Circle, which they suspect is connected wi...

01/21/2025

Massachusetts and 18 other states and two cities wasted no time today suing to block an order that tries to outlaw the 14th Amendment's "birthright citizenship" - the right of people born on American soil to be American citizens. Read more

01/21/2025

Boston Licensing Board Chairwoman Kathleen Joyce said today she plans to call a hearing at which to consider rolling back the 2 a.m. closing time for Theater District clubs, after listening today to police describe large street parties that often include people taking over the streets so they can cr...

01/21/2025

Boston Police report officers arrested a 15-year-old they say was in possession of "a G***k 43 with an extended magazine containing eight 9mm rounds" after they first stopped his driver, also 15, for allegedly speeding up Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan and Dorchester yesterday.

01/20/2025

Stephen C. Bedell captured the scene at the Embrace on the Common on the most appropriate of days.

01/20/2025

Matt Frank was up earlyish for a walk along Revere Beach this morning.

01/20/2025

Police officers swarmed the parking lot of the South End Whole Foods on Harrison Avenue around 9:50 a.m. where they found a dark blue Mercedes SUV with front-end damage and missing its right-side mirror - matching the description of the SUV whose driver hit two women on Washington Street near Lenox....

01/19/2025

Trout House Comics snapped the bouquet somebody put in ol' Edgar's hand in honor of his birthday today. We were going to ask if the flowers were a bit too cheery, but it turns out Poe loved flowers.

01/19/2025

Mary Ellen captured some muskrat love in Millennium Park along the Charles River yesterday. A bit upstream, she spotted an eagle doing a celebratory eagle dance before chowing down on that deer carcass on the ice.

01/19/2025

A cameraman for WCVB's "Chronicle" show may have had legitimate religious reasons to reject Covid-19 vaccinations, but the cost of providing separate accommodations for him to keep working meant the station had the right to fire him, because employers have the right to listen to federal public-healt...

01/19/2025

Police are looking for a dark SUV whose driver they say hit two pedestrians on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets, then drove away, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.