On an ever-changing Newbury Street, this fall will bring yet more newcomers.
The high-end Back Bay shopping destination will welcome a retail shop for Vermont’s King Arthur Baking Co. and a Birkenstock shoe store, in addition to an expanded T…
Massachusetts
Residents safely escape building fire in Wakefield
A fire burned through a mixed-use building in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Sunday night.
Emergency crews responded to the building on Albion Street around 8:30p.m. Fire officials say two men with disabilities who lived on the second floor were a…
A big week for restaurant openings and closings in Greater Boston
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]
Below are some of the biggest restaurant and food-related news stories that have been posted between September 9 and September 15.
Tenoch to Open in Harvard SquareA local group of M…
Two people injured after Roxbury crash
Two people were injured in a crash in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston early Sunday morning.
Boston Police say they responded to a report of an accident between a scooter and a car in the area of Martin Luther King Jr Blvd and Humboldt Avenu…
Firefighters battle flames in Chelsea building
Authorities are responding to a fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts on Sunday morning.
Chelsea Fire says they are responding to a fire in the area of 132-134 Congress Ave.
According to authorities, when they arrived they could see flames in all …
Can someone get this astronaut stuck in space a fresh New England apple?
For people from the Boston area, you really find out how much you like them apples when you’re stuck in space for apple-picking season.
That’s the situation that NASA astronaut Sunita Williams finds herself in. The Needham, Massachusetts, native rocketed up to the International Space Station in June for what was supposed to be a week’s stay, but an issue with the Boeing Starliner capsule that flew her and Butch Wilmore has led their mission to be extended into next year.
They addressed the situation during a news conference in space on Friday, but Williams also made light of it, throwing in a request for an apple from back home.
“I know that there are some really nice, crispy apples right now that are getting picked off the tree. I was just talking to my family about that,” she said, adding, “It would be nice if someone could put a New England apple in a spacecraft that was coming up here.”
The astronaut called New England “the prettiest place on Earth, with the fall coming up,” and said she and her colleagues will try and get some good pictures.
She also gave a “Go Pats” — it’s football season! — and made another cheeky nod to her hometown: “We’ll find a better place to pahk the cah next time.”
Back in June, students at the Sunita L. Williams Elementary School in Needham cheered and jumped up in the air as they watched on a TV in their classroom as their school’s namesake took off. Williams attended Needham Public Schools and has a close relationship with the teachers and students at the elementary school named after her.
