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Friday, May 18, 2012

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Councilor: BPS could build a brand-new school with all the money it wants to spend to move several schools around

Jackson: Not happyA skeptical group of city councilors urged school officials today to reconsider a school-moving plan that would send a Mission Hill elementary school to Jamaica Plain. The full council could vote on the issue at its regular meeting next week. At a hearing on the proposal today,…

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Court rules with conviction: Tosses tougher OUI penalty against guy who'd had earlier case dismissed after admitting he would have been found guilty

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a man improperly had his license suspended too long under the state's drunk-driving law because after the first time he was arrested, he didn't actually plead guilty to drunk driving. Following a 1997 arrest, Paul Souza admitted to sufficient facts for a…

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I for one welcome our new T-riding alien overlords

"Cookbooks for sale," this sign at Forest Hills probably says.

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Last dance

Dorchester's Donna Summer dead at 63.

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Salute for a fallen Marine at Logan

Daniel Weintraub files this report: Last night a fallen soldier, escorted by 2 active Marines was returned to Boston on my flight from Atlanta. The casket was received with full honors outside the gate by the Massport FD, Local State Troopers, Local Marines, and of course the family. …

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Longwood skyline to get taller with 17-story Emmanuel dorm

Emmanuel College got a green light from the city this week to finish plans for a 17-story dorm on Brookline Avenue and to lease part of its campus to Brigham and Women's for a new research building on Avenue Louis Pasteur. In a vote earlier this week, the BRA approved the college's "institutional…

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Targeted ad boosts South End doggie bakery

Hollywood East Connection talks to Deborah Gregg, owner of the Polka Dog Bakery, about the newfound fame that comes from being featured in a national TV ad for Target.

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Menino rolls out plan to curb summer violence

Summer jobs, more anti-violence street and case workers, chats with people getting out of jail, efforts to broker ceasefires among gangs, more surveillance cameras among the efforts announced yesterday.

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Be vewwy, vewwy quiet - he's hunting mushwooms

Jef Taylor reprints some tips from a guy who likes driving around town looking for Agaricus bitorquis, an edible mushroom that grows well in curbs that have been raised up a bit by tree roots: Don't run over a dog or cat or rear end a car. Drive slowly ignoring that half-wit behind you blowing his…

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Man against government handouts seeks government handout

Meet Curt Schilling, who yesterday asked Rhode Island to pony up some cash for his game company, because the loan guarantees they gave him weren't enough to keep the company from defaulting on a loan payment.

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Troubled Neponset bar finds new buyer downtown for its liquor license

Upstairs Downstairs, shut since a seven-stabbing closing in February, goes before the Boston Licensing Board next Wednesday for permission to sell its liquor license to the owner of a proposed downtown restaurant. Bar owner Arthur Sutliffe had originally negotiated with the Boston Tea Party…

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Friendly East Boston man offered toke to wrong person at Andrew station

So this guy from East Boston strikes up a conversation with another guy sitting on a bench in the busway at Andrew station this afternoon. He's feeling mellow, gets a joint out of his right jacket pocket, lights up and offers his newfound friend a toke. Unfortunately for the man, the guy was an…

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Councilors, school officials to consider educational musical chairs on Thursday

Mission Hill teddy bear explains the problems with moving Mission Hill K-8. BPS officials are scheduled to explain a proposed $21-million school relocation plan to a skeptical City Council committee at a hearing that starts at 11 a.m. in the council's fifth-floor chambers in City Hall. Under the…

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If a tree falls in a public square ...

A sad day in Copley Square today as 20 London Plane trees are being cut down. The affected trees are located throughout the park and average eight-inches dbh (diameter at breast height). All specimens are dead or dying due to canker stain fungal infection. Other tree species in the park are not…

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Inevitable becomes more concrete at South Station

New fare schedule on a fare machine. Photo by MBTA. The T began slapping new fare schedules on fare machines at South Station today, in advance of July 1's increases.

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But will they rename it WSUX?

The Boston Business Journal reports the Phoenix has sold WFNX to Clear Channel and that pretty much everybody but news anchor Ted Baxter Program Director Paul Driscoll has been let go. The station could go to Spanish or country and western.

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