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Reading this by candlelight?

Reports are coming in of power outages across the area, like mid-Cambridge, Tremont Street downtown and Newton Centre. And Georgy Cohen reports Somerville Police had to help her and other riders off an 89 bus that hit a downed tree and power line.

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Resident Parking | City of Boston

Resident Parking Permit Boston's Resident Permit Parking Program is an initiative designed to give residents a better chance of finding an on-street parking space in their neighborhood. Many of the parking spaces on Boston's residential streets are regulated as "Resident Parking Only." A…

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New Applicants for Resident Parking | City of Boston

Obtaining a Resident Parking Permit You may download the necessary Resident Parking Permit and bring it to City Hall. In addition to the application form, the following two pieces of information must be presented at the Office of the Parking Clerk when applying for a permit: 1. A valid…

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On waiting 30 minutes in the rain for a 66 bus

John Keith reports the current crop of MBTA bus shelters do a great job at protecting the ads built into them, but simply suck at preventing people from getting wet.

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Fake BWSC scammers at work in Roslindale again

Boston Police report men pretending to work for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission are cruising the parkways once more, looking for homeowners who will let them inside so they can burglarize their houses. Police report that around 2 p.m. on Monday, four white guys between 30 and 50 approached a…

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If you can't put a late-night sub shop on Harvard Avenue, where can you?

The owner of the Subway franchise at 162 Harvard Ave. goes before the Boston Licensing Board next Wednesday to seek permission to change the shop's closing hours from midnight to 3 a.m. The shop also wants permission to open at 8 a.m. instead of 10 a.m.

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The Lynn Daily Item must be doing pretty well to turn away a potential advertiser

Corey Jackson reports the Lynn Daily Item basically told him they wouldn't take his money to advertise his blog because he's written some less than nice things about the paper: ... Instead of receiving an answer from the advertising department, I got a personal e-mail from the General Manager of…

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kor group

Boston Based design agency. Met designer from here moonlighting at MCA

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Bite Size News, February 25: Twittery Edition

Image by iMatthew from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Conan O'Brien almost has 300,000 followers after one tweet. [NY Times] CoCo has a long way to catch up to the cat from Waltham with more than a million followers. [Boston Globe] Springfield wants to host an Obama-Brown hoops…

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Interview: Young Journalist Makes Online Transition

Melissa Massello, editor of Shoestring magazine, online

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musetrek

Use MuseTrek as a cultural guide and whiteboard. Follow other people's Treks and start publishing your own thoughts, trails, treasure hunts and games, letting others follow in your footsteps. MuseTrek makes you the tour guide, the curator and the storyteller using the world's museums…

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Insane Coupon Lady Saving Money, Making Everyone at CVS Want to Strangle Her

Hey, you know how if you get a CVS card, CVS will give you "bucks" for buying its overpriced crap? And sometimes little coupons print out on your receipt too? And you can use the bucks and coupons together but sometimes you have to have separate transactions to use all the bucks you've…

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Joint Ventures

oint Ventures Physical Therapy and Fitness is the only clinic in Boston providing a true multidisciplinary approach to wellness. We provide 1-on-1 Physical Therapy with licensed Physical Therapists without the use of aides, assistants or students. Our team approach utilizes the best health…

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I bet PR people sometimes think nobody ever actually reads their releases

C'mon up, Shannon Igoe of Image Unlimited Communications, Ltd., for the following line in a press release about dim-summish roving cocktail carts during Sunday brunch at Burton's Grill: "No Sir! ... the bar comes to me you say?!" ... "Oh you betchya' Mr. hypothetical dialog guy in the middle of my…

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Winners at Madison Park High

Mattoo Manner posts some photos of the two-in-a-row citywide basketball champion team at Madison Park High, which is now competing for the state title.

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