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The Globe is diving into the nitty-gritty of the T problems with its "GlobeWatch." A reader let Christina Pazzanese know that conditions at the Sullivan Square stop are not only dirty and gross, but also unsafe:

--There are times when a police officer must stifle laughter. And yesterday had to be one of those times when police investigated an alarm that had gone off in a Dorchester house. The incident caused quite a stir, as the owner told police there were guns in the house. When a SWAT team forced its way in, they discovered 41-year-old Laura Buchman - in the clothes dryer. She must have smelled spring fresh. She's been...

Sullivan Square Station and a chunk of I-93 North closed earlier today because MBTA police had to detonate something that was indeed "suspicious." This wasn't your ordinary stray item – this thing had wires and tubes around it.

Just as the arrival of snow resurrects the endless debate over whether it's OK to block off spaces with lawn furniture, so the arrival of baseball brings its own cause for griping: Parking around Fenway continues to be insanely expensive.

In Bostonist’s experience, the southeast corner of Foss Park, at the corner of Broadway and McGrath Highway in Somerville, serves two purposes: In the afternoons of fair weather days, it is the gathering place for Somervillians of all ages wishing to play team sports on the park’s many fields. In the early mornings of all days, rain and shine, it is the gathering place for immigrant day laborers, who wait to be picked up by contractors for whatever construction or landscaping work may be on the bill in the cities and towns north of Boston that day. We imagine that for both of these groups, it is easy to ignore the unobtrusive stone marker (pictured at right) reminding park users that the mighty Middlesex Canal once came through the area. OK, it probably wasn’t that mighty, being only three or four feet deep and thirty feet wide, but it was a fairly exciting innovation at the beginning of the 19th century. It connected Lowell Chelmsford (now part of Lowell - Bostonist failed to mention this initially, but our loyal readers kept us honest - see the comments)) and the Merrimack River to Charlestown and Boston, allowing a flourishing trade in, you know, whatever Lowell Chelmsford had that Charlestown needed. Actually, it was a pretty big deal, because it brought timber and other goods from as far away as Concord, New Hampshire, to the shipyards and factories of Boston. From the time it was completed, in 1803, until railroads made it obsolete in the 1850s, the Middlesex Canal was crucial to the economy of eastern Massachusetts and probably helped our nation to become the mighty superpower it is today (or at least to defeat the hated British in the War of 1812).