The Navy's USS Oak Hill, an amphibious assault ship with a crew of 300, arrives in Boston today and stays in port through the fourth of July. The ship arrives in South Boston at the North Jetty of the Boston Marine Industrial Park on Wednesday morning. The Oak Hill is open from noon to 4 p.m. from Thursday through Monday at no cost to the public. The Navy said the ship is not handicapped-accessible. The USS Oak Hill, commissioned in 1996, carries 400 combat-ready Marines, approximately 40 vehicles and 40,000 cubic feet of cargo and equipment. The ship weighs in at 16,400 tons and is 609 feet long and 84 feet wide. It can go over 20 knots. All visitors are subject to search.
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It's getting floody all around the region. [Boston Channel]
The weather messed with most commutes this morning. [Boston Globe]
Almost everyone still marched in Southie's rainy St. Paddy's Day parade. [WHDH]
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Massachusetts health care costs jumped 10% from 2008 to 2009 while the country's costs jumped 4.6% the same year. Marine Corporal William Woitowicz, 23, was returned to Groton a week after he was killed in action in Afghanistan. His wake is today at St. Catherine’s Church in Westford and a funeral mass is scheduled for Thursday. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
What began with police responding to a fight at Carson Beach in South Boston yesterday turned into multiple gang fights involving about 1,000 people that required approximately 100 police officers from at least five law enforcement agencies. According to the Globe, youths using social media sites like Facebook organized the fighting three of the past four nights.
A State Trooper was struck by a car in South Boston this morning on a detail near where Frontage Road meets the Massachusetts Turnpike just before the Ted Williams Tunnel. State Police said the hit-and-run driver fled in a dark-colored sedan, possibly a Volvo or Toyota, with a damaged right front end. According to State Police, the trooper was checking for speeding drivers and was on the Route 90 Eastbound ramp coming from Route 93 Northbound.
St. Patrick's Day parades happened Sunday in South Boston. Irish gear, bands, politicians, uniforms, costumes and pride were all on display. We didn't even include every photo. Any idea what's in those cups the guy in the first picture is holding?
Citizens, advocates and legal authorities are working to keep all of the drinking in moderation. South Boston CAN Reduce Underage Drinking is one such group. The group works year round to reduce drug and alcohol addiction in South Boston. Also, Nick Collins, the state representative from South Boston, contacted many universities in Boston to curtail excessive drinking by students attending the parade.
No St. Patrick’s Day revelry in Boston would be complete without some kind of crazy controvesy stemming from the Southie parade. In the 2011, the latest crisis spawned a second parade. We know. Two parades. Start drinking now.
City officials suggested that South Boston liquor stores close at 4 p.m. on Sunday instead of 5 p.m. as they have for the last four years on St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Boston asked bars "to stop letting in patrons at 6:30 p.m., stop serving alcohol at 7 p.m., and to send all patrons home by 7:30 p.m.," according to the Globe. Patricia A. Malone, director of the Mayor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing, said businesses have always cooperated with the city. Mayor Tom Menino wants to have a "festive, fun, and family-friendly atmosphere" for St. Patrick’s Day weekend. [Globe]
Boston Police arrested two Revere men for stealing fire hydrant caps on Sunday in South Boston. Both suspects were charged with larceny, possession of burglarious tools, willful and malicious destruction of property, and trespassing. Police found tools and pieces of multiple hydrants on the suspects and in the area of Thomson Place, Stilling Street and Boston Wharf Road. [BPDNews.com]
A second carbon monoxide related incident happened in Massachusetts last night. Firefighters evacuated four single-family homes on Bolton Street in South Boston because of high CO readings. The Boston Fire Department reached the scene at 9:15 p.m. and learned NStar traced the problem to a burning underground cable. Nobody was injured. An eight-year old Quincy boy died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. [Globe]
Brutal shaking is essential to the construction of many proper cocktails and, as an added bonus, makes bartenders make faces. Combier Liqueur d'Orange has invited Boston's mixologists to show off their best "shaker faces" at the Franklin Cafe in Southie (152 Dorchester Ave.) from 7 to 10 pm this evening. The public is invited to gawk at displays of liquor-agitating prowess and partake of the drink specials that so endear the Franklin Southie to us.
President Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango of Kenya addressed the issues surroundng her former status as America's most famous illegal immigrant. She was granted asylum in May and still lives in South Boston public housing.
-- Jordan J. Remy, one of Jerry Remy's kids, pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery charges in South Boston District Court today after allegedly groping a woman he met at Boston Beer Garden at about 12:45 a.m. today. Remy allegedly grabbed her crotch and said "You know you want it." The Red Sox and NESN had no comment. [Globe, Herald]
-- Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other law enforcement agencies arrested 47 alleged gang members from Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The alleged gang members from Massachusetts lived in Boston, Chelsea, Dartmouth, East Boston, Fitchburg, Leominster, Lynn, New Bedford, Randolph, and Springfield.
Consider this a lesson: It's a mattress, not a bank.
Bill Clinton either really likes Congressman Stephen Lynch, or he thinks Lynch has compromising pictures of him. Whatever the reason, former president Clinton is visiting South Boston Thursday to speak on Lynch's behalf at a 12:30 p.m. rally at the Ironworkers Local 7 union hall. Lynch is running to keep the Ninth Congressional District seat. One Democrat, two Republicans and an independent are also running. Lynch said of Clinton "As the ‘man from Hope' Enough of that. Please don't steal the Big Guy's lines, Lynch.
- Flash Floods soaked Somerville last weekend, causing a surprising amount of damage. Representatives from FEMA are in the city beginning today to help prevent future floods. The police headqurters is closed, 26 police vehicles were damaged, the fire department lost 100 fire suits, and flood damage is believed to be in the millions.
If you liked the ICA’s Shepard Fairey exhibition last year, or the Damián Ortega show this year, you’ve gotta check out their current romp featuring the 30-something artist and tattooist known as Dr. Lakra. Like fellow Mexico City native Ortega, Lakra has built a career on making something out of nothing, according to ICA curator Helen Molesworth; like Fairey, that “nothing” usually takes the form of found media and images that the “extraordinary draftsperson” makes his own. There are pin-up girls gone wild with Lakra’s painted-on all-over tattoos, Mexican eminences given the particular Maori facial tattooing reserved for people of special significance. Plastic babydolls and mannequin parts get inked up for real: apparently plastic reacts to the tattoo gun much like human flesh does.
Paul Keleher was intrepid enough to stick it out in soggy Southie yesterday during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. The photos above capture how the event looked, but check out his video to hear the heavy downpour. Keleher took the final photo in our gallery during the 2008 parade, and it should remind you what the sun looks like.
There's no better way to meet Roni Horn's art than to see her current exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. Though the mid-career retrospective Roni Horn aka Roni Horn was actually curated by the Whitney in New York and the Tate Modern in London, the show looks like it was made for the ICA. In this Bostonist's experience, no other exhibition has used the ICA's unique space quite as effectively as this one does.
-- Nicole Chuminski, 27, was convicted of killing her lover's two children when she set fire to their house. Chuminski killed Acia and Sophia Johnson, ages 14 and 13, had "a rocky relationship" with the girls' mother, Anna Reisopoulos, and set the fatal fire as an act of out-of-control vengeance after a lovers' spat. [Herald]
-- A 47-year old South Boston man was arrested and charged with one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distributing child pornography after allegedly compiling among the largest collections of child pornography in the world. Police found 16,000 child porn files on the suspect's computers. Assistant Attorney General Christopher Kelly said the suspect confessed despite pleading not guilty on both charges. His adult criminal record allegedly includes 55 entries. The defense attorney said the suspect blamed "pop-ups" for the pornography. on his record, Kelly said. He added Shipps spent time in jail in 1990 and 1994. Among the charges on his adult record are assault and assault and battery on a police officer, Kelly said. Court records show he received psychiatric care for violence. He was held on $100,000 bail. [Herald]
Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art can hardly be called a bastion of modernism, but that is exactly what it looks like in this intriguing photo by Nathan Tia. We've been running a lot of architectural photography lately and were excited to see such an abstract, clean-lined example of the genre.
-- Public health officials released a report today calling heroin and OxyContin addiction an "epidemic" in Massachusetts. The report calls for a public health campaign on the scale of the fight against H1N1 to combat the problem. The report estimates that 3,265 Massachusetts residents died from opiate overdose between 2002 and 2007. [Globe]
-- A 26-year old female Harvard employee was attacked yesterday night in Harvard Square by a man who tried to strangle her with a rope. The quick-thinking victim was able to crouch, push her male assailant away, and escape with little harm having come to her. No arrests have been made. [Herald]
Boston Police responded to the Tedeschi’s on West Broadway in South Boston on Tuesday and found glass door smashed by a large rock. Police say surveillance tape shows the suspect tossing a rock through the door to enter the store. He then stole Newports and scratch tickets. The same suspect allegedly lifted lottery tickets and Newport cigarettes from a 7-11 on West Broadway in July and August. BPDNews.com describes the suspect as a white man, 30-40 years old with dark hair. He wore a Boston Red Sox hat and Championship shirt and black jeans and black sneakers. Cool surveillance pics, too. [BPDNews.com] All charges alleged until proven under law.
Bostonist contributor Korri Leigh Crowley sends a photo essay from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Dorchester, where Senator Edward Kennedy will lie in repose beginning later today. As you can see, the memorial for our departed senator has already been arranged and mourners have already flocked to the library to pay their respects. Kennedy's public wake will take place in JFK Library's Smith Center later this evening and will continue tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
