Grove Hall

Grove Hall gets gyro

adamg — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:49:05 -0400

Culinary diversity continues to spread across Dorchester: A Blue Hill Avenue motorist passes along the news that Grove Hall is getting a Gyro King, which will offer, yes, gyros and felafel.

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Pedestrian hit by T bus in Grove Hall

adamg — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:33:04 -0400

Boston Police tweet on a bus/pedestrian collision at 470 Blue Hill Ave. this afternoon. Expect traffic delays as police attempt to figure out what happened.

The anti-violence march and the pirate radio station

adamg — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:04:12 -0400

This Sunday, there's going to be a "Man Up for Liquarry Jefferson Accountability March" from Grove Hall to City Hall, to try to get black men to take more responsibility for stopping violence in inner-city Boston (starts at 11 a.m.; it's named for the little boy shot by a cousin with an illegal gun a family member left lying around).

I didn't read about it in the Globe or the Herald, of course. Instead, I heard about it this morning on Touch FM, the pirate radio station a toothless FCC can't seem to shut down.

But maybe it's not such a bad thing the FCC can't figure out how to dismantle an antenna. For the 20 minutes or so I listened to the station in the car (came in very well in Roslindale, slowly faded out as I got toward Rte. 9 in Newton), I listened to callers discussing what "brothas can do" to change the 'hood - and which song they'd pick as a theme for the march or which best reminds them of somebody they'd lost to violence. The DJ recited names of young victims of violence and reminded listeners that the mainstream media only seem to care about the inner city when somebody gets gunned down - where are the stories about good things in the non-white areas of Boston?

The answer to that one is easy, of course: If you look at today's Globe, you'll notice the paper assigned two metro reporters to the Patriots/Herald story (and another to cover a mock hurricane evacuation on the Cape).

Low-cost broadband in Roxbury, Dorchester

adamg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:11:26 -0400

Well, Grove Hall and Dudley Square, at any rate: $9.95 a month for wireless access, in the first phase of Tom Menino's citywide wireless effort.

'Liquarry A. Jefferson probably didn't have a chance'

adamg — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:04:56 -0400

Good, sad, frustrating story in the Globe today that looks at the poor kid's short life in an awful family and environment in Grove Hall, despite some fairly intensive - and expensive - efforts by social workers to help.

... In Grove Hall, police have said that 2.4 percent of the area's 19,000 residents cause most of the serious crime. Many of those people, police say, are related. ...

Teen shot in head on T bus

adamg — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:09:59 -0400

Three men spotted fleeing bus after 3:50 p.m. shooting in Grove Hall.

Update: Victim dies.