Hyde Park
State stops repaying Boston for repairs to Hyde Park High School
By adamg - 5/13/12 - 9:53 amThe Globe reports a state authority has stopped paying Boston for renovations to Hyde Park High School because the school is shut.
When BPS officials realized shutting the school meant they were going to lose millions of dollars over several years for work they'd already paid for, they scrambled to find a way to re-open the building - at first announcing plans to relocate Boston Latin Academy there, then dropping that and announcing plans to move New Mission High School and Boston Community Leadership Academy.
State officials remained unconvinced they were getting their money's worth and stopped a scheduled $1.5-million annual payment, the Globe reports.
Meanwhile, the plans to move the two high schools to Hyde Park - and a series of other musical-chair moves - could be in jeopardy because city councilors, who must sign off on $20 million in borrowing for the work, have started raising questions about parts of the move, such as relocating the Mission Hill K-8 School to Jamaica Plain.
Brookwood Community Farm annual seedling sale
By Lanny Budd - 5/10/12 - 9:42 amSpring Seedling Sale May 19th and 20th 9am-3pm
Wake up the Farm Pancake Breakfast May 19th 9am-11am
Join us to celebrate the start of the 2012 season. Enjoy delicious pancakes with friends and stock up on seedlings for your home garden.
Boston's centennial neighborhood
By adamg - 4/26/12 - 6:50 pm
Town bylaws limited fun.
As 1912 began, Boston expanded by 15,000 people when it took over the town of Hyde Park. The annexation, approved by Hyde Park voters the previous fall, marked the last time Boston grew by swallowing up a neighboring community.
The City of Boston Archives has posted documents, maps and photos related to the founding of the town and its annexation, including a copy of some of the town's bylaws.
On Saturday, local historian Anthony Sammarco, gives a free talk on the 100th anniversary of the annexation at the Hyde Park BPL branch - which originally opened in 1899 as the Hyde Park town library. The noon lecture also includes a slice of annexation birthday cake.
Brush fire in Stony Brook Reservation
By adamg - 4/20/12 - 5:48 pm
Stony Brook fire from Buck Hill in the Blue Hills. Photo by Boston Strolls.
Boston firefighters are battling a brush fire in the forest, near where it runs along the George Wright Golf Course. So far, the smoke is white, not like the dark stuff from yesterday.
The fire marks the trifecta of Boston brush fires - Stony Brook, the Fens and Dorchester Lower Mills along the Neponset.
Gang violence erupts again in Hyde Park
By adamg - 4/20/12 - 8:53 amThe man who wound up fatally wounded outside a Hyde Park supermarket had connections to Jamaica Plain's violent Heath Street gang, according to sources.
It's the second time in seven months violence linked to gangs in other neighborhoods has hit Hyde Park. Last September, an alleged associate of Roxbury's H Block gang was unloading groceries outside his girlfriend's Readville apartment when he was shot repeatedly. Prosecutors at the time said the shooting was part of a feud between H Block and a gang based at Roxbury's Orchard Park project.
Wednesday's victim, 20 but otherwise not yet identified by police, was not shot outside the Price Rite supermarket on River Street, near the Mattapan line. A source says he was a bit further down River, between Rosa Street and Reddy Avenue when shot. He then ran toward the Price Rite, where a Boston Police officer on detail called for an ambulance. The store overlooks Wood Avenue, home of Hyde Park's own violent gang.
Dry brush bursts into flames along 128, dumps ash across region, disrupts train service
By adamg - 4/19/12 - 6:22 pm
Big fire, viewed from the Neponset. Photo by Drew.
Firefighters in Boston and several nearby communities are battling brush fires that all seemed to erupt around the same time this evening, in Dedham, Milton, Norwood and Westwood - with the largest off Sprague and Hastings streets in Dedham, just past the Readville line, in a normally marshy area accessible only by the Northeast Corridor train tracks.
Jen reports:
Huge brush fire near route 128. Just went past it on the 5:40 from Boston. Was literally a wall of fire.
Sandy O'Keefe was on the same train:
Heat pouring into car. Terrifying. Life just flashed before eyes. Fire in brush near 128 mere feet away from train. Could feel heat from seat. We just missed it.
Two murders overnight, but only one getting significant media interest
By adamg - 4/19/12 - 5:54 pmBianca Vazquez Toness at WBUR reports Boston Police told her the media is only asking about the Allston murder, not the one in Hyde Park.
Note: The Globe did have a short piece on the Hyde Park murder.
Man shot to death outside Hyde Park supermarket
By adamg - 4/18/12 - 9:57 pmUpdate, 12:50 p.m.: Boston Police report the victim, 20, died at Boston Medical Center.
Brian D'Amico reports a man was shot shortly before 9 p.m. outside the Price Rite, 871 River St., and was taken to Boston Medical Center in bad shape. Police are looking for a white Subaru spotted driving down River Street into Hyde Park.
Times reporter journeys to River Street at the Hyde Park/Mattapan line
By adamg - 4/18/12 - 1:48 pmTakes a look at the new bridge installed over the weekend across the Fairmount Line, instead of piecemeal over the eons, like, oh, that bridge on American Legion Highway over Morton Street.
Oh, I want to see an Oscar Mayer wiener, that is what I truly want to see-e-e ...
By adamg - 3/30/12 - 6:43 pm
No baloney!
For some reason, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has been flitting about the Boston area the past couple of days. Today, as Sheeps Eating Me shows, it appeared in Hyde Park. Truman Parkway, to be exact.
Why there? No doubt to help open the newly rebuilt Stop & Shop there.
We took a spin around the place (after the wienermobile had left, though). It's a vast improvement over the old store there, but then, almost anything would be, given that that store was the Stop & Shop that time forgot, forever stuck in the 1970s, right down to the old Stop & Shop sign out front.
