South Boston no country for old cones
Whilst Ubering about town, roving UHub photographer Frank K. spotted this Public Works pickup full from a de-space-savering run through South Boston today.The city also replied to this complaint about...
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Space-saver wars: City picks them up, residents just put out new ones
Hot spots for space-saver complaints, 2/14-2/16. Source. See it larger.From Tuesday through Thursday of this week, Boston's 311 system received 753 complaints about space savers, including this one...
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See it larger.Remember when hawks were a rare things in the city? A roving UHub photographer spotted this seemingly put out hawk on the O'Callaghan Way side of the Mary Ellen McCormack project in South...
View ArticleSouth Boston turns out in force for the annual re-opening of Sullivan's
A beautiful day and school-vacation week equaled a wicked long line for the opening of Sullivan's at Castle Island today. Traffic was backed up way past the Farragut statue.
View ArticleWith Linehan out, three more would-be replacements organize campaigns
As expected, Edward Flynn, son of the former mayor, is taking steps to run for the District 2 City Council seat that Bill Linehan is giving up.Flynn, a South Boston resident, filed campaign...
View ArticleNothing illegal about being a bad neighbor in Boston, city declares
In response to a 311 complaint about some Massholish parking on G Street in South Boston (person consistently parking "between a driveway and a handicap spot" and basically taking up two spaces with...
View ArticleCouncil moves to shrink voting lines at overstuffed precincts in some...
The City Council today approved a request to the state legislature to let Boston create "sub-precincts" in certain crowded districts in Bay Village, Chinatown, Roxbury, Downtown, South Boston and the...
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Eileen Murphy watched a salt truck go down a South Boston street during one of two snow squalls last night.
View ArticleCity plan would add dozens of new liquor licenses for small restaurants - and...
Mayor Walsh and City Councilor Ayanna Pressley today unveiled a proposal to add 152 new liquor licenses aimed mainly at helping out start-up restaurants in outer neighborhoods.But their proposal, which...
View ArticleVeteran who was to lead St. Patrick's Day parade quits over decision to bar...
Dan Magoon, who heads an organization to honor and support Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families, today quit his honorary position as head of the South Boston St. Patrick's Day parade after...
View ArticleThis is not OK: Dead train at Broadway
The T is reporting "moderate" delays on the Red Line due to a deceased train at Broadway. Or as Bea puts it:We all smelled smoke and we're told to evacuate at Broadway.
View ArticleTeamsters will pull out of South Boston parade unless gay veterans' group...
Teamsters Local 25 announced today that if a gay veterans' group can't march in the St. Patrick's parade in South Boston, then it will stay away as well.The announcement comes as the board of the...
View ArticleCredit union drops out of South Boston parade; to donate money it was going...
The City of Boston Credit Union announced today it's dropping out of the St. Patrick's Day parade because of the exclusion of OutVets:City of Boston Credit Union is extremely saddened by the decision...
View ArticleOutVets says South Boston parade organizers vote unanimously to let them back in
OutVets, which represents LGBTQ veterans, says the board of the Allied War Veterans Council voted 11-0 tonight to let the group march in next week's St. Patrick's parade in South Boston - reversing an...
View ArticleWashington Post writes two stories about South Boston and its parade, then...
The longer Post story is a decent overview of the events leading up to OutVets getting to march in next weekend's St. Patrick's parade.The shorter story, which got smashed onto the top of that account,...
View ArticleMexican sailing ship visits Boston
Rob Littlefield got up early to take a peak at the tall ship Cuauhtémoc, currently berthed at Fan Pier.NorthEndWaterfront.com reports the ship will have public visiting hours today through Sunday.
View ArticleFor third year in a row, St. Patrick's parade route cut in half
Snow is the issue again, WBZ reports.
View ArticleBrits-B-Gone
RoadTrip New England took in the Evacuation Day commemoration at Dorchester Heights this morning.
View ArticlePolice: Man yanked off Red Line after he wanked on Red Line
Transit Police charge that as an inbound Red Line train hurtled from Broadway to South Station around 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, an Everett man whipped his supposed manhood out and began rubbing it while...
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