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East Boston weddings used to be pretty rollicking affairs
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East Boston weddings used to be pretty rollicking affairs

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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Photo by Jim McDevitt. Edith Petrillo and Robert Fisher got married on Feb. 8, 1959, but were unable to spend the first night of their new life together because he was locked up at the District 7 police station in East Boston after their reception at…

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Swan Boats once more gliding around the Public Garden Lagoon
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Swan Boats once more gliding around the Public Garden Lagoon

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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Early Swan Boat. As they've done since the 1870s, the Paget family today launched the Swan Boats in the Public Garden Lagoon. Boston College's Burns Library posted this photo of a Swan Boat from sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s.…

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Harvard grad students go on strike, walk picket lines this morning
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Harvard grad students go on strike, walk picket lines this morning

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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Striking grad students this morning on Divinity Avenue. Photo by a roving UHub photographer. Harvard University graduate students, members of a UAW local, walked picket lines this morning after 14 months of fruitless contract talks with the school.…

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The one time it pays to have a wooden leg

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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Hahd-chahgin' Globe reporter Emily Sweeney recounts how her grandfather made newspapers across the country the time he fell on the tracks at Park Street and his leg came into contact with the third rail, but he lived because his leg was wooden.…

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311 complaint of the day: The rooster crows at sunrise

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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A disgruntled Red Line commuter in Dorchester filed a 311 complaint about the early morning reverie on the way to Shawmut being crudely interrupted: As I walk to the train in the morning I hear a rooster yelling at like 5 in the morning.…

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Two councilors getting a little tired of some dog owners' crap
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Two councilors getting a little tired of some dog owners' crap

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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Outfield dogs: From a 311 complaint filed yesterday about Rogers Park in Brighton. City Councilors Erin Murphy (at large) and Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Downtown, Chinatown) want city animal-control and parks officials to explain how they plan to…

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Worker at shuttered dispensary sues over unpaid wages
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Worker at shuttered dispensary sues over unpaid wages

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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A worker at one of the now closed Pure Oasis dispensaries yesterday sued over the wages and vacation pay she says she was owed when the downtown and Grove Hall shops closed last week.…

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Lesley professors approve strike if no progress made in contract talks

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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The Cambridge/Somerville Independent reports and adds that, given what's going on in western Mass., are now seeking contract clauses ensuring they're let down easy should the school shut.…

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We might be about to find out what happens when ICE disregards a judge's order to release an immigrant it's locked in a cell

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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ICE is blaming "an administrative oversight" for the way it failed to comply with a judge's April 14 deadline to either release an immigrant it had thrown in a cell or to get him before an immigration judge for a bond hearing.…

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BU issues Marathon advice to students: No Animal Housing in the GAP and for God's sake, stay away from parties at BC if you can't handle your liquor
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BU issues Marathon advice to students: No Animal Housing in the GAP and for God's sake, stay away from parties at BC if you can't handle your liquor

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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Boston University is out with some pre-Marathon advice for impressionable young Terriers, and much of it is common sense (in fact, the subject line is "Sense and the City" - will the young'uns get that?): Don't overdrink, have a plan on how to get home in…

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311 complaint of the day: Wireless mystery zone near Agganis Arena

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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A motorist with no signal files a 311 complaint about the dead zone on Commonwealth Avenue in the area of BU's Agganis Arena: There's a signal jammer or high powered communications interference from equipment on Commonwealth Ave.…

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Councilor wants city to help fill potholes on hundreds of private ways in Boston
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Councilor wants city to help fill potholes on hundreds of private ways in Boston

Universal Hub·adamg·about 1 month ago
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City Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester) thinks it's time people who live on private ways in Boston get the same level of pothole filling as residents who live along roads that are owned by the city.…

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