The state, which owns the current Shattuck Hospital off Morton Street and Boston Medical Center are holding a Zoomed meeting on Tuesday to discuss their plans to replace the current hospital with new buildings with up to 405 apartments and new beds and clinical services for people with substance-abuse issues and the homeless, including families. Read more.
Shortly after 10 p.m. on Atherton Street where it meets Washington Street and Columbus Avenue. He ran across Washington and into the Egleston House of Pizza, where arriving first responders found him. Read more.
King, Lara and Weber in Zoom forum.
The three candidates for the District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) City Council seat - incumbent Kendra Lara and challengers William King and Ben Weber - met last night in a Zoom forum sponsored by JP Progressives, Right to the City Vote and MassVOTE.
The top two finishers in the Sept. 12 preliminary will then meet in the Nov. 7 general election for the two-year seat.
Some of the issues: Read more.
Public Coffee, 182 Hyde Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain, announced today it's shutting down on Saturday. It opened (with protests) in February.
NBC Boston reports Boston election commissioners today rejected demands from Kendra Lara haters that it bump her off the fall ballot in District 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill), concluding they'd failed to provide enough proof that she doesn't live in the district.
Lara said she was in a midst of a divorce when she ran for office and decided she’d rather use her maiden name than her married name – and got approval from the election office to do so.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man yesterday on charges he shot Dante Webb to death on Forest Hills Street on July 18. Read more.
Handmaid watched the sun come up over a chill Jamaica Plain this morning: "Hoodie weather for dawn."
Maria Daniels, in Harvard Square, was one of many people who looked up after the rain stopped this evening.
In Jamaica Plain, Handmaid saw the rainbows, too, but also a still angry cloud: Read more.
A man walked into the 7-Eleven at South Huntington Avenue and Centre Street in Jamaica Plain around 11:45 p.m. on Friday, gave a worker behind the counter a demand note for cash and then showed the worker the gun he had in his waistband.
A person was shot at Roys and Wise streets in Jamaica Plain around 11:05 p.m.
Officers found a gun about a block away on Chestnut Avenue.
WBUR reports that at a hearing today, City Councilor Kendra Lara (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) had charges of negligent operation and recklessly permitting bodily injury to a child added to the the driving an unregistered and uninsured motor vehicle and driving with a suspended license that police initially charged her with after she alleged drove into a house on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain on June 30. Councilors Tania Fernandes Anderson, Julia Mejia and Ricardo Arroyo attended the hearing to support her.
Innocent, etc.
Victim identified as Dante Webb, 45, of Jamaica Plain.
Boston Police report a man was shot on the 100 block of Forest Hills Street in Jamaica Plain shortly after 1:30 a.m. Read more.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the impending demise of Turtle Swamp Brewing on Washington Street.
The Boston Transportation Department has decided this is the year of the 39 and 57 buses - and has launched studies to see how to improve their routes to get people to and fro faster - and let them "wait comfortably at their bus stops and board the bus safely." Read more.
City Councilor Kendra Lara (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) today apologized and sought forgiveness for her June 30 car crash, in which she veered off Centre Street in Jamaica Plain and into a house, after which police issued her a summons for driving an unregistered and uninsured car with a suspended license. Read more.
City Council President Ed Flynn has some thoughts on Councilor Kendra Lara's car crash and Councilor Ricardo Arroyo's ethics fine last week: Read more.
WBUR reports City Councilor Kendra Lara (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury), was cited for driving an unregistered car with a revoked license, no insurance and an expired inspection sticker for a crash into a house on Centre Street Friday afternoon. Both she and her young son were injured.
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