One person was taken to the hospital after a school bus crashed into a building in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Monday, according to police.
The bus crashed into a house at the corner of Claridge Terrace and Wentworth Street around 4:40 p…
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SUV crashes onto roof on sidewalk in Stoneham
An SUV crashed and landed on its roof on a sidewalk in Stoneham, Massachusetts, Monday.
It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the crash on Maple Street or how it happened.
NBC10 Boston has reached out to Stoneham police and fir…
Inside Copley Square’s 1st major facelift in decades: What to expect
Copley Square — one of Boston’s most beloved public spaces — is getting a major facelift, the likes of which haven’t been seen in nearly four decades.
The city is in the process of renovating Copley Square Park, a complex project seeking to make the Back Bay plaza “even more human,” according to project manager B Chatfield, with upgrades that still maintain what people have loved about Copley for decades.
Improvements to the park will include updates to the fountain, new lawn and planting areas, an elevated seating area called the Raise Grove, lighting and updated pathways and plaza space, according to the city.
The project is expected to be done by the end of the year. The project’s budget is nearly $17 million.
“It’s a square that people feel a lot of connection about,” Chatfield said. “It serves as a neighborhood park as well as a citywide destination. And so, trying to get an understanding of how the site is used by protestors and marchers and where big events are set up, versus what happens on a daily basis with people coming out of the Hancock Tower.
“I think the designers worked a longtime to try and accommodate those scales of activities,” she continued.
Chatfield said that the last time Copley Square Park got an update this significant was in the 1980s.
“It echoed a lot of those lines of trees and rectilinear layout,” Chatfield said. “It’s not exactly historic. It’s always playing nice with the historic fabric around it. And we figured we would continue to play nice but respond a little bit more — I think better — to human use and trying to make this a space where people could make their own.
“And what we’re doing now, we’re increasing the planting areas, so making it softer in that regard and I think we’re still pushing it in that direction of making it even more human,” she continued.
You can watch Chatfield discuss the Copley Square Park renovations in the video at the top of this story.
The city provides more information about the project on this webpage.
Reward doubles for man wanted in killing of mom, daughter in Worcester
As the search continues for a man wanted in the killing of a woman and her daughter in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week, federal authorities have doubled the reward for information leading to his arrest.
Dejan Dante Belnavis is wanted on charges…
OSHA cites company in forklift operator’s death at Logan airport in 2023
Last year’s deadly forklift accident at Boston Logan International Airport was avoidable, federal worksite overseers said Monday, announcing that the worker’s employer is being cited.
The forklift operator, a 51-year-old man from Winthrop, was fatally injured when part of the vehicle hit an entrance, causing it to tip over and fall onto the worker at an outdoor loading area in Terminal C on Aug. 29.
He worked for a JetBlue subcontractor, officials have said, and a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection found Oxford Airport Technical Services, based in Rochester, New York, failed to ensure that the man was wearing seatbelt.
The OSHA investigation also found that not all of Oxford’s forklift operators were properly trained and certified, that the forklift in question raised its mast and forks more than necessary and that a damaged forklift wasn’t examined before being put into service.
OSHA Area Director James Mulligan said in a statement that it is “simply inexcusable” that Oxford “failed to train and certify their forklift operators on critical safety requirements.”
The citations carry proposed penalties of $46,096, according to OSHA. Oxford has three weeks to respond.
Oxford Airport Technical Services provides workers who process luggage and operate plane-boarding bridges nationwide. NBC10 Boston has reached out to the company for comment on the citations.
Precinct Kitchen + Bar in Boston’s Back Bay has closed; new concept replacing it
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]
A hotel restaurant in the Back Bay of Boston has shut down, though its space will apparently not be empty for long.
According to a poster within the Friends of Boston’s Hidden Restaura…
