An Amesbury man was arrested and is charged with drug possession with intent to distribute after police found 25 marijuana plants in a secret room. California authorities alerted police to a package coming to the suspect with two pounds of marijuana in it. The warrant police had allowed them to find the additional plants, and other marijuana growing materials. [WBZ]
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Thirty public companies in Massachusetts owed $0 in federal income taxes, or even received refunds, in 2010. For example, State Street Corp. got an $885 million refund. A bike sharing program similar to the one Boston announced in April is already in place in Washington, D.C. and is quite successful. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Remember the incident spotted by Fabulously Out There in which it appeared that a woman injured herself in a fall down crumbling stairs at the State Street MBTA stop? Well, it seems that the MBTA got on that business right quick: "The stairs were FIXED this morning. Brand slapping new with the slip proof yellow strip and all!!!! Now, while they might have planned to fix the stairs for as long as I have lived here (2.5 years) and while the stairs might have looked like this even longer , I find the timing SUSPECT to say the least."
Fabulously Out There knows the Blue Line like the back of her hand, and she's used to its unusual ways, but she was dismayed at the following scene:
--The BPD gathered together owners of establishments that sell liquor in response to the two incidents in which a creep offered women rides, took them to Charlestown, and sexually assaulted them. According to the BPD, both crimes "originated in the State Street area."
We can't control the nasty weather that occasionally strikes Boston. When the sleet stings your face, or when you step into a deep, cold puddle, you just have to convince yourself that the moment will pass. Soon, you'll be underground in a cozy T stop where you can thaw out or dry off.
--Keith Ryan, the son of Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan, was found dead in Pakistan. He was an attache for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Reports indicate he had shot himself. An investigation will follow. [Boston Globe]
Bus schedule improvements? Mattapan high-speed? New Blue Line trains? Oooh, Santa Charlie isn't finished with us yet!
--A 22-year-old man was shot in Roxbury outside Packy's Pub early this morning. He is now in critical condition. The Globe reports that police learned about the shooting from ShotSpotter.
--Multimedia artist and musician Brian Dewan will join Bostonist faves Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, and S. Joe Hazelwood at Church. Of course, the Broken Toys are promising frilly panties and corsets. 69 Kilmarnock Street, 9:00 pm.
Harvard's not the only rich institution in town - or at least they have some competition. The Museum of Fine Arts received a gift of $10 million bucks from the State Street Corp. In return, the MFA will rename the Fenway entrance the "State Street Fenway Entrance" and open it after leaving it closed for 20 years. That's an appropriate gesture, but we thought that the MFA would blow it all with a spending spree...
--Some hot dogs are just too hot to handle, at least in Franklin. Two women, Stacey Bower and Sonjalea Katz, were selling "hottie dogs," and the town commissioner stopped it because they didn't have the right permit. The Milford Daily News has a picture of Katz and Bower. Their food van is indeed named "hottie dogs," and they are wearing tank tops, but we can't for the life of us understand what is so threatening...
The Armenian Memorial, a proposed park, would pay homage to the Armenian Genocide that saw the loss of an estimated 1.5 million lives in 1915. The memorial has been on and off in the news mostly for their intention to develop a parcel of the Greenway near Christopher Columbus park as the site of the memorial. Tom Menino has voiced his opinion: no way. He doesn't want the Greenway to become home to a number...
The Globe's Mac Daniel reports that a man was separated from his briefcase during yesterday's morning rush hour. Orange Line doors suddenly snapped shut on Juan Sierra’s shoulder as he tried make his way out of the car, using his briefcase as a shield. “The closing of the doors also sandwiched my head to the point that my glasses popped off to the outside of the train car onto the platform," Sierra wrote in an...
We saw headlines that the protests of Bio 2007 were "modest." And then we saw the headline that police had to don their riot gear for a protest at Faneuil Hall last night. The Herald also noted the presence of a police helicopter above the hall. The Herald described the police-protester clash: "In a tense encounter, 50 protesters made their way to State Street near Fanueil Hall last night at 9, yelling expletives at a...
We were thinking about how clever presidential candidate Barack Obama must have been to find parking in Cambridge, tickets be dammed. And then we saw the latest in ridiculous rates in this city. The Globe reports, "At least seven garages are charging for parking in 20-minute rather than 30-minute increments, and many of them are collecting their all-day rates for periods of less than two hours." Many places are charging $6 for 20 minutes or...
More standing room "seats" at Fenway are a fitting addition after the 2006 season. In 2004 the curse was broken. The oldest and smallest MLB park was outfitted with a new drainage system. In 2005 when the boys failed to repeat the 2004 feat the season was followed by a overhaul of the .406 club creating the open air posh seating now called the EMC club for a corporate sponsor (rather than to honor Ted...
When dads have enough neckties, Dave Barry books, and an endless supply of Old Spice, the Father's Day present can be a tough find. So, instead of looking to the department stores, this year we took dear ol' dad out to Fenway Park. No, not to see an actual game. (How the hell are we suppose to get tickets?) Shelling out $12 per person and joining a group of 60 other Sox fans (with...
So this Saturday, as we learned from a recent MBTA press release, the Old State House entrance to the State Street station was closed for a week (till the coming Saturday) for the installation of exciting new Charlie Ticket machines and the Blue Line stopped going to State Street. Nothing terribly exciting, right? Right. But here's what vexes us: The T is providing free transfers so that Blue Line customers who ordinarily change for the...
On the heels of the Boston 375 Colonial Ale, brewed in the tradition of beers crafted back when Boston was founded the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams beer, will soon launch a new pack of beers called the Brewer Patriot Collection. The four included are the Traditional Ginger Honey Ale, James Madison Dark Wheat Ale (we've also heard described as a red wheat), George Washington Porter, and the 1790 Root Beer Brew. The George Washington Porter is brewed with the same molasses that was used in the Boston 375 but is decidedly darker in color and richer in flavor.
Maybe you were walking by City Hall Plaza today and noticed a strange encampment of sign- and flyer-bearing, Spanish-speaking protesters on the traffic island where State Street meets Tremont. Perhaps you said to yourself, "What gives? I thought yesterday was the big day for immigrant protests!" Maybe you even took a flyer (see right). Still, you would likely have been left wondering, "Why are these people making such a fuss about UNICCO, the Mass.-based cleaning...
On Bostonist's daily commute history is often hard to dodge, from inadvertently following along the red brick line of the Freedom Trail to a simple feat like riding on “Americas First Subway.” Other bits of history show up in the most unusual places. The “hub” marker lies underneath crates of oranges at the fruit stand outside of Filenes in Downtown Crossing. Oliver Wendell Holmes first referred to the old State House (so really the State Street station, and not Downtown Crossing) as the “Hub of the Solar System,” which developed into Boston's well-known nickname.
Today is Bastille Day, marking the day in 1789 when French people stormed a prison known for arbitrary imprisonment on the king's orders, to show their support for the creation of a constitutional, rather than absolute, monarchy. (Trading in one sort of monarchy for another seems like a half measure these days, but it was rather something at the time.) Shortly thereafter, in August, the new French government would proclaim the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which boldly stated that all men were born free and with a right to resist oppression, except, you know, Haitians and Africans.
The MBTA announced this morning that they have started a project to offer cellphone service at 4 of their T stops. While Bostonist was always glad to grab an occasional signal at the Boylston T stop, this new project will provide signals at Park Street, Downtown Crossing, Government Center, and State Street, as well as the connecting tunnels and the "pedestrian viaducts"(huh?) MBTA Chairman claims that "...is not just a matter of convenience for...
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