Brookline.news reports that a Verizon reseller is busy readying a new phone store in the empty space where a CVS used to be right at Harvard and Beacon streets, so it will be hard to miss. Coolidge Corner has been Verizonless since 2020, when Brookline Booksmith took over what used to be a Verizon store just up the block.

A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday rejected a request to immediately block work to convert the former Stonhedge nursing home on Redlands Road in West Roxbury into "congregate" apartments for up to 120 people, who would live there for at least a month as they try to get back on their feet and find more permanent housing.

Opponents filed suit just 30 minutes after the Zoning Board of Appeal voted Oct. 28 to uphold ISD's OK of plans by the building's owners and a Fitchburg non-profit to convert the building just off Centre Street into 40 residential rooms, with shared bathrooms and kitchen space, charging that the project violates the lot's zoning, is based on illegally altered plans and was really meant to stick a homeless shelter for vagrants in a family neighborhood.

Along with their suit, they asked for a temporary restraining order to block conversion while the case went through court proceedings, which could delay work by months or even longer.

But Judge John Fraser ruled that based on what he's seen so far, he didn't think the residents had much of a change of ultimately prevailing - and that, in any case, the request was premature, because while the zoning board held its vote last month, it has yet to file its written decision:

Based on the Court's review of the submissions of the parties at this very early juncture of this case, the lack of a written decision from the Board, and the deference to which the Board is entitled, the Plaintiffs have failed to establish likelihood of success and are not entitled to injunctive relief. Given the lack of likelihood of success, the Court need not and does not address the other arguments asserted by the defendants in their opposition papers. Plaintiffs Motion for preliminary injunction is DENIED. SO ORDERED.

The nursing home closed in 2021. In 2024, a developer proposed replacing it with a 30-unit apartment building with 45 parking spaces, but later withdrew its plans.

Boston firefighters responded to 25 Train St. in Dorchester around 8:30 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.

The department reports one firefighter was injured at the fire, which engulfed the second and third floors in the rear.

Two residents got out safely, the department says.

The department estimated damage at $500,000 and says the cause is under investigation.