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Five days into a sixteen-day shut-down of train service along the Ashmont branch of the Red Line, city and state officials continue to adjust their plans to help Bostonians and commuters move around the city as workers scramble to finish accelerated track improvements that prompted the diversion. The object is to replace aging ties, rails, and ballast with new equipment along
Do you have a plan for dealing with the upcoming 16-day shutdown of the Ashmont branch of the Red Line? If not, you should. Even if you aren’t a frequent MBTA rider, the suspension of service on the rail line— including the Mattapan trolley— is almost certainly going to impact everyone who needs to move around this part of the city. The 16-day, round-the-clock “surge” is
Watching John Dunlap, Jr. conduct business at his Dorchester Used Bicycle and Thrift Shop these days is seeing poetry in motion. While anything can happen on any given day at his Dot Ave storefront – conversations about his endless ideas for inventions and patents, sales of his vintage items, from movie posters to dolls to saltshakers, a showing of his classic 1989 Oldsmobile
September 1983. Ronald Reagan was in his first term as president and the denizens of the Eire Pub already had a portrait of the Gipper – who popped in for a beer in ’82 – framed on their Adams Street wall. The USSR shot down a civilian Korean 747 over Siberia and the US House of Representatives voted unanimously to condemn the Russian atrocity. The Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams”
On Monday afternoon, the Legislature approved yet another handout for the illegals swarming into Massachusetts for a free ride forever – in-state tuition at public colleges, which after all the scams will in fact amount to free tuition.