Keolis pairs some video of celebrating Celts players with this advisory for Championship Duck Boat Day, i.e., Friday: We'll be operating on a weekday schedule with service changes. Please avoid traveling into the city on this day! facebook twitter email print ..read more

Three concerned citizens filed 311 complaints this morning about paint vandalism at Billings Field and along Lagrange Street in West Roxbury, including one about a minivan covered in what was left of the white paint left in the can that the vandals left in the street. Since the can is in the street, one might assume they hit the playground first: facebook twitter email print ..read more

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the court order that required Boston to desegregate its schools, WBUR looks at the Eliot School in the North End, which went from having racial parity to becoming mostly white once again - in a school district that is mostly Black and Hispanic. facebook twitter email print ..read more

Handmaid hoped to see some brilliantly colored clouds at daybreak in Franklin Park, but instead got a sign it's time to try to stay cool for the next few days. She quotes Laurie Anderson: Sun's coming up. Like a big bald head. Poking up over the grocery store. It's Sharkey's day. It's Sharkey's day today. Heat emergency, even. facebook twitter email print ..read more

CommonWealth Beacon considers a proposal by Atlantic writer - and Boston Phoenix alum - .Mark Leibovich to rename our airport after the Celtics great and civil-rights activist. facebook twitter email print ..read more

The city announced our five-year Duck Boat parade drought will end Friday at 11 a.m., when the Celtics head on out for a triumphal procession from Causeway Street in front of the Garden. The parade will go by City Hall Plaza and the Common via Tremont Street, turn onto Boylston and end at the Hynes. facebook twitter email print ..read more

The Celtics won their 18th NBA title tonight with a fifth-game victory over the Mavericks. facebook twitter email print ..read more

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the flaming bus carrying students from the Josiah Quincy School in Chinatown on I-93 north in Dorchester this afternoon. facebook twitter email print ..read more

Adam Castiglioni snapped what looked like sunset on a really hot day this evening, although it was actually pretty pleasant. facebook twitter email print ..read more

State Police report a Roxbury woman standing in the breakdown lane of Rte. 3 north in Braintree after the driver of the RAV 4 she was in hit a deer in the right lane died when the driver of another vehicle swerved into the breakdown lane to avoid the stopped car and hit her early Sunday. State Police say the driver hit a deer shortly after 3 a.m. and that both he and his passenger, Magdalena Desrosiers, 35, were standing in the breakdown lane when the driver of a Jaguar SUV swerved into the breakdown lane to avoid their deer-entangled vehicle . Both were hit and transported to a local hospita ..read more