For the third time in two weeks, somebody in a Toyota wound up ensnared on Green Line tracks, this time at the end of the B Line at Boston College. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/19/2024 - 3:06pm
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By adamg - Wed, 11/27/2024 - 2:48pm
Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 11/13/2024 - 12:51pm
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a fired landscaper at Boston College can continue his case that his 2021 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots violated his religious rights under the First Amendment. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/12/2024 - 10:38pm
The Heights reports Boston firefighters responded to the area of Lake Street and Undine Road around 2:45 p.m. for a brush fire in woods there.
The entire state is under a red flag warning until at least 6 p.m. on Wednesday because of a drought that has persisted even as deciduous trees shed their leaves, creating huge swaths of particularly flammable areas.
By adamg - Thu, 10/31/2024 - 12:17pm
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a packie license for a proposed gourmet food shop in the block of stores next to the Boston College Green Line stop over the strong objections of both the school - which serves beer and wine at on-campus events, including football games - and Secretary of State Bill Galvin, who lives just up the street. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 09/24/2024 - 2:05pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans to replace a UPS store at 2193-2201 Commonwealth Ave. with a 900-square-foot "provision" market focusing on high-end beverages - and kosher wines - and prepared gourmet foods, aimed not at the thousands of underage Boston College students right across the street but at nearby residents looking for a more convenient place to stock up than Cleveland Circle or Brookline. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 09/04/2024 - 10:57am
A federal judge yesterday threw out what was left of a class-action lawsuit by Boston College students against the school for the way it shifted classes from in person to online in the spring of 2020 as Covid-19 spread across the state. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 08/31/2024 - 10:45am
Boston Police report the creepy eye-covered man a Gerald Road resident saw on her patio is also wanted for burglary and skulking incidents in the area dating to June. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 9:39am
Boston Police report they are looking for a prowler spotted on Gerald Road, off Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College, Tuesday night.
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By adamg - Fri, 07/19/2024 - 2:14pm
Boston College has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to build a three-story, roughly 45,000-square-foot building to store collections of religious stuff "as well as limited artwork and cultural artifacts" on a hillside between its Theology and Ministry Library and its St. John's Seminary property off Lake Street in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 04/19/2024 - 11:57am
The Heights provides a rundown of the legal wrangling involving a suit by some employees over the college's alleged mishandling of retirement funds. US District Court Judge William Young rejected BC's request for him to simply throw the case out, calling its strident efforts to block a trial "a monumental waste of time."
By adamg - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 11:10am
On Jan. 25, 1971, a nearly finished 16-story apartment building at 2000 Commonwealth Ave., near Boston College, collapsed, killing four construction workers and injuring a couple dozen more in a slow domino-like pancaking that started with a roof collapse. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 8:58pm
Transit Police report the B Line was knocked out of commission for about 45 minutes around 9 p.m. on Wednesday after a driver somehow wound up facing towards Newton on the inbound tracks at Commonwealth Avenue and St. Thomas More Road. The driver of the diminutive sedan told police "he took a wrong turn and ended up stuck on the tracks." No injuries, at least.
By adamg - Fri, 12/15/2023 - 11:57pm
Boston firefighters responded to the Campanella Way side of Boston College's Alumni Stadium for a fire that started on the roof, then spread through the stadium's HVAC system shortly after 10:45 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 11/20/2023 - 9:58am
Brighton Center liquor store ordered shut for a day after it's caught selling liquor to minors again
By adamg - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 10:58am
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Walsh Wine & Spirits, 388 Washington St. in Brighton Center, which police detectives cited on July 19 for selling tequila, rum and other drinks to two guys who were under 21, in the latest such incident at a place that had become popular among Boston College and Boston University students. Read more.
BC swimmers, divers demand school retract their suspension and apologize for accusing them of hazing
By adamg - Sat, 09/23/2023 - 10:00pm
By adamg - Tue, 08/08/2023 - 4:09pm
A roving UHub correspondent decided discretion was the better part of driving valor and turned around when he saw how flooded St. Thomas More Road, between the BC lower campus and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, was after today's torrent. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 06/05/2023 - 5:11pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week ordered the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission to give Gopuff, a Philadelphia-based delivery company, its license to deliver alcohol back while its lawsuit against the commission proceeds. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 06/01/2023 - 9:35am
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