Bloody morning in Charlestown: One stabbed, one sliced
Tue, 05/13/2014 - 07:30WFXT reports a Charlestown High School student was stabbed near the school this morning.In a separate incident, a man was sliced in the back around 7:30 a.m. Exactly where...
View ArticleAnd the winner, Worst Boston Accent in a TV Series, goes to ...
How many episodes do you think this TBS series about a Charlestown barbershop will last before it's canceled? But at least it answers the question of what happened to Norm from Cheers after he realized...
View ArticleShots fired in Charlestown
Tue, 05/27/2014 - 15:20Multiple shots, around 3:20 p.m., in the area of Bunker Hill and Monument streets. Possibly more than one shooter, possibly aiming at a building on Carney Court. No human victims...
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Jocelyn noticed a new Help Wanted sign in the window of the erstwhile Olives today.
View ArticleGo figure: Ballfield behind Charlestown office building not the best place to...
An office worker looked out his window this morning to see a man firing what appeared to be a rifle at a target behind the Schrafft Center, so he called police, who quickly arrived en masse to find a...
View ArticleAll the same, don't look straight down
The stencil on the Charlestown Bridge looks official, so it must be, right?
View ArticleAnd at the other end, does it turn into Salem Street Avenue Boulevard?
Only in Boston, more specifically, Charlestown.
View ArticleDeveloper ropes in BRA for Navy Yard residential project
Making rope at the Navy Yard before World War II. Photo by Leslie Jones.The BRA tonight approved a developer's plans to turn the historic but long-vacant Ropewalk building at the Charlestown Navy Yard...
View ArticleThe suspect wanted for smashing a window on an Orange Line train at Community...
He was the shirtless guy, covered in cuts and holding a brick, just standing there right outside the station, around 3:30 p.m. yesterday."Yeah, I did it," Stephen Fusco, 46, of Malden, told officers,...
View ArticleNo criminal charges against driver whose garbage truck struck, killed...
A Suffolk County grand jury has declined to return an indictments against Ricky Prezioso, 42, of Swampscott, whose garbage truck struck and killed Owen McGrory of Chelsea in April.The move surprised...
View ArticlePerson jumps off Tobin
Shortly before 9 a.m., landed on Terminal Street in Charlestown, didn't survive. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:It appears that the deceased was on foot and went over the rail on...
View ArticleCitizen complaint of the day: Permacones
A less-than-impressed citizen fails to see the inspiration behind an apparent city experiment in Charlestown to curb traffic-cone thefts by asphalting them to the ground.Earlier:The historic traffic...
View ArticleWynn not as enamored of Boston as Mohegan Sun
The Globe reports Steve Wynn doesn't want to pay Boston more than $2.6 million a year for a casino just over the line from Charlestown, compared to the $18 million Mohegan Sun says it would pay for a...
View ArticleThree badly hurt in crash outside Sullivan Square firehouse
Boston EMS Incidents reports at least one person was ejected from a vehicle and at least two other people are in bad shape outside the Engine 32 and Ladder 9 fire station at 525 Main St. BPD homicide...
View ArticleMicrolibraries spread to Charlestown
Mediacrity shows us the city's newest tiny library, at Main and Warren streets in Charlestown.Earlier:Jamaica Plain gets fourth library in a box.
View ArticleTwice the history in the Charlestown Navy Yard
See it larger.Brian MacLean photographed the USS Constitution and the Charles W. Morgan, the last wooden whaling ship in the world, currently here on a port call during its 38th voyage (more...
View ArticleOrange Line shorts out, makes riders want to shout
Some sort of electrical problem at Sullivan Square means the T is now busing Orange Line riders between Wellington and North Station.
View ArticleA more pedestrian-friendly North Washington Street bridge in the works
Not for today, but one of these years, since the city would have to get state funding first, but the Globe reports city engineers are working out how to replace the old be-girdered span with something...
View ArticleCannon removed from the top of the Bunker Hill Monument
J.L. Bell reports a cannon that has been in the chamber atop the Bunker Hill Monument since the 1840s is being removed today for restoration. But it's unclear where it will wind up once it's spruced...
View ArticlePlucky T riders set record for highest-altitude bus transfer in the region
A T bus (maybe a 111) died on its way across the Tobin shortly after 7 a.m., forcing its riders to transfer to a 426 bus in mid-span - some 254 feet above the Mystic River. A.P. Blake, who shot the...
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