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By adamg - 2/2/24 - 10:09 am

Jamaica Plain News reports the death of Ron Hafer, who, in addition to helping lead the fight against the Southwest Expressway, founded Urban Edge and participated in the March to Selma.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 5:26 pm

Transit Police report a 14-year-old-girl told officers she was sexually assaulted and threatened with a knife around 4 p.m. on Monday at Forest Hills. The next day, a teen, too young to be named because of his age, was arrested for the attack, police say.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 10:28 am
Acevedo

A Jamaica Plain man was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison yesterday after admitting he convinced a 13-year-old girl in Ohio to send him nude photos and engage in sexual activity via video chat - while he was on probation for his conviction on a series of similar sexual charges involving children. Read more.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 4:56 pm
Two Boston Park rangers get horses ready for a ride around Jamaica Pond

A couple of Boston park rangers used the hitching post in front of the Jamaica Pond gazebo to get their steeds ready for some hoofing around the pond this afternoon.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 11:17 am

At 9:27 a.m., the MBTA reported Orange Line delays due to a prematurely deceased new Orange Line train at Forest Hills, a day after another new Orange Line train refused to leave Forest Hills.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 10:25 am
Orange sunrise over Morton Street

Handmaid got a good view of this morning's sunrise over Morton Street and the Arborway in Forest Hills.

Mary Ellen got a good view of those clouds, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 9:52 am

Bright and early at 6:28 a.m., the MBTA reported one of its new Springfield specials on the Orange Line refused to budge from Forest Hills. The train has since been shoved out of the way.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 12:16 pm

Jamaica Plain News talks to Eversource about what caused Thursday night's outage in Jamaica Plain, which at its peak took out power to more than 4,400 residences and businesses.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 9:42 pm

Update, 10:50 a.m. Eversource says it's restored almost all the power, except to 10 customers.

Around 9 p.m., the lights began blinking out in Jamaica Plain. As of 9:35, Eversource is reporting 4,438 homes and businesses in Boston without power, most of them in JP, and most of those clustered in the area between Jamaica Pond, the Arboretum and Franklin Park, about as far north as Parley Avenue and Green Street. Read more.

By adamg - 1/13/24 - 5:33 pm
Rainbow over Uphams Corner

After the overnight torrents, we got another mini-torrent this afternoon, followed by a rainbow that water-weary Bostonians rushed out to see. Danny in Boston shows us the double rainbow over Uphams Corner in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
Dark and stormy on the Charles

It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.

Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.

By adamg - 1/8/24 - 3:33 pm

A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain: Read more.

By adamg - 1/7/24 - 10:47 pm

Via Jamaica Plain and Roslindale Facebook groups comes the news that Cafe Beirut on Centre Street closed for good yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/2/24 - 1:02 pm
One side of the clock at Forest Hills is about 10 minutes fast

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about one of the clock faces in the tower at the Forest Hills MBTA station: Read more.

By adamg - 12/24/23 - 12:25 pm
Small tree in Franklin Park decorated with a single red ornament

TheBostonLOL forwards this photo of a tiny tree in Franklin Park that somebody wrapped with a blue tree skirt and decorated with a single red ornament, just like Charlie Brown would do.

By adamg - 12/22/23 - 5:01 pm

Jamaica Plain is suddenly awash in pizza news. The day after Mario's held a soft opening at its new Hyde Square location comes news that the developer behind the condos going in where Doyle's used to be has a deal with Stoked Pizza to move into the ground-floor space and second-floor balcony where Forest Hills' Brassica once planned to open. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 10:46 am
Rendering of a game in the new White Stadium

Rendering by Stantec. See it larger.

The group working to bring professional women's soccer to Boston yesterday filed detailed plans for its part of the overhaul of the decaying, fire-ravaged White Stadium in Franklin Park, which includes a new soccer pitch, replacement of bleachers with individual seats, a separate dining area including room for food trucks, a year-round restaurant and a beer garden and overhanging shade over the seats designed as an homage to the surrounding greenery. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:38 am

Update, 12:45 p.m.: Outage numbers now around 6,112 in Boston, with numerous outages in Hyde Park and Mattapan.

As of 9:30 a.m., Eversource reported more than 3,400 businesses and homes in Boston have lost power - including 1,600 or so in Roxbury, where falling tree limbs knocked out power at 6:32 a.m. and 1,400 in Jamaica Plain, where the power went off at 8:09 a.m.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 11:23 am

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Mario Bailote to re-open the old Oggi pizza place at 8 Perkins St. as Mario's Pizza. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 3:32 pm
Goon makes finger gun motions at performer and parents in Taunton

From the complaint: Goon finger-shooting performer and parent at Taunton drag-queen story hour.

The state Attorney General's office today sued the state's home-grown Nazi group and two of its leaders on civil-rights and conspiracy charges for using violence and intimidation against drag-queen story hours, immigrants and just random people over the past couple of years, including in Jamaica Plain, the Seaport and on a pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive. Read more.

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