The Jamaica Plain Gazette interviews Luis Valerio of West Roxbury, who is running against incumbent Councilor Matt O'Malley (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) not out of any animus toward O'Malley but because he couldn't get his kids into any of the public schools in West Roxbury. In addition to renting out English to local universities, he would build an indoor sports center at Millennium Park.

If elected, Valerio would be active in the politics of two countries. The Gazette reports: "He has served as the secretary general for the Dominican Revolutionary Party in New England."

Stanley Staco reports the Maywood Market, Blue Hill Avenue and Maywood Street, was held up around 10:10 p.m. by a masked man with a gun. Police found the cash register - without any cash - not far away on Blue Hill Avenue.

Police are looking for a black man in a gray hoodie with a big red Adidas symbol.

The Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus last week endorsed Charlotte Golar Richie for mayor.

Experience. When one considers the upcoming mayoral election, he or she undoubtedly seeks a candidate with unique experience applicable to the position. Groundbreaking: surely an ideal mayoral candidate is one unafraid to break down barriers and work toward change. And, in a male-dominated race, Charlotte Golar Richie shines like a beacon representative of these influential qualities (oh, and much, much more).

Mike Ross plans to officially, really, no, this time he means it, kick off his campaign for mayor tomorrow by staying up for 25 hours.

"I will be bringing my campaign to the leaders and neighbors of communities across Boston to focus on the issues that mater to them and learn from their own work to help me bring the best ideas and solutions to City Hall," Ross says in a statement. And, indeed, his daylight schedule is filled with grip-and-grin meetings with advocacy groups, his supporters, Bruins fans and the like. But we're no New York, so what's Ross going to do when the DPW officially rolls up our sidewalks?

FasterHorses recounts what happened as he was panting on the pathway following a particularly hard run around Jamaica Pond yesterday:

A girl (walking) who I had passed about 50 yards back caught up to me. She signaled for me to take off my headphones and said, "I don't know who you are, but I just wanted to say that you're awesome and I want to give you a high-five. I always want a high-five when I run, so here's a high-five."

The Salem News reports on the jury award for Samantha Mattei, injured in a May, 2009 collision blamed on trolley driver Aiden Quinn texting his girlfriend while operating the train.

The T argued that Mattei had some of her conditions, which her family says forced her to drop out of college and will require home care, before the crash.

The City Council on Wednesday considers a request by Councilor and mayoral candidate Mike Ross for a hearing to grill NStar officials about the Sunday blackout, which he said came "despite assurances of safety upgrades and additional installation of materials to prevent future outages" following last year's transformer explosion and outage.

Ross represents the Back Bay and Fenway, which have been particularly hard hit by the blackouts.

Boston Police report finding a newly perforated man at 1 Vallar Rd. around 2:35 a.m.

The man, described by police as "uncooperative," was sent off to Mass. General and is expected to survive.

Slipping? Hamburglar always used to wear gloves.Richard Calderon-Colon was ordered held in lieu of $150,000 bail on charges he robbed a McDonald's and two Dunkin' Donuts in Dorchester and Mattapan at gunpoint, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding he faces similar charges in other courts for two additional holdups.

Even if he makes the bail - prosecutors had asked for $500,000 - he won't be going anywhere, because Judge James Coffey rescinded his bail on an unrelated heroin-possession charge.

Calderon-Colon already had a record, so officials had little trouble linking him to the robberies once they were able to lift and match fingerprints from items he touched during the robberies, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.