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07/08/2025

Mary Ellen spotted a green frog keeping coolish at Millennium Park today. See it larger.

07/07/2025

The owner of one of the old industrial sites along Hyde Park Avenue near the Readville train station has filed plans to replace the shipping containers and other stuff on his land with a "confident urban presence" in the form of a five-story, 42-unit apartment building. Read more.

07/07/2025

Boston Police report officers who responded to a report of a loud party at 125 Alexander St. in Dorchester around 1 a.m. on Sunday arrested a 14-year-old they say had a gun with one round in the chambers and nine in a magazine. Read more.

07/07/2025

Photo by BFD.

Boston firefighters responded to 14 Whittemore St. in West Roxbury around 10:30 p.m. Read more.

07/07/2025

Mary Ellen watched a flotilla of 14 geese glide by Millennium Park on the Charles River today: Read more.

07/05/2025

By adamg on Sat, 07/05/2025 - 11:37am A fight on the pier near the Tall Ship on the East Boston waterfront ended with one man stabbed several times in the neck and another punched in the head. Boston and State Police responded to Pier 1 off East Pier Drive shortly after 1:15 a.m., where they initial...

07/02/2025

A man pointed a taser at employees at a Dorchester store who objected to him just taking stuff, but didn't fire it, instead punching a worker on his way out of the store Monday morning, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. Read more.

07/02/2025

State officials who have been pondering how to redevelop the hulking Lindemann and Hurley buildings where downtown, Beacon Hill and the West End meet have released a report that calls for leasing the space for 99 years to a private developer that would need to continue providing space for the state....

07/02/2025

ISO New England, which oversees New England's power grid, reports that when the Logan Airport temperature reached a new June record of 102 degrees last Tuesday, electricity demand across the region reached its highest level in 12 years - and forced power generators to take steps to keep from running...

07/02/2025

Landlord Anwar Faisal has filed plans to expand his 28-unit apartment building at 80 Gardner St. in Allston's GAP area with a six-story, 36-unit extension.

07/02/2025

On July 2, 1934, the Boston Traveler published this photo of bellhops at the Hotel Bradford on Tremont Street posing in their new summer finest: Read more.

07/02/2025

Boston Police report a Seaver Street man is scheduled for arraignment today on charges he fatally shot Joshua Smith of Milton at Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue on July 5, 2021. Read more.