Oak Square
Oak Square has a haunted house
By adamg - 10/26/11 - 8:23 amMary Faith Goessling recalls her life in the haunted house, at Massmouth's recent Second Jamaica Plain Story Slam at Doyle's.
Engine 51's new home
By adamg - 7/19/11 - 8:40 amThe Boston Fire Department shows off the newly renovated Engine 51 in Oak Square.
Oak Square apartment building hit by fire
By adamg - 3/31/11 - 3:10 pm
Photo by Colleen G.
A fire in a fourth-floor bedroom at 501 Washington St. displaced six people but caused no injuries, the Boston Fire Department reports. The fire was called in around 3:20 p.m.
Citizen complaint of the day: Brighton clock displays wrong time
By lex.galloway - 3/29/11 - 5:53 pmFiled on Citizens Connect today from Washington St:
This wonderful clock in Oak Square is running but has been displaying the incorrect time for weeks. Can you please fix it.
Let's hope nobody is relying on it get to work.
Another water-main break in Oak Square snarls rush-hour traffic
By adamg - 2/7/11 - 7:56 amAnd that includes buses and ambulances, Nathan Spencer reports. He adds this is the second one in two years there.
Overflow crowd expected at library meeting in Oak Square Thursday
By adamg - 10/26/10 - 5:36 amThey'll be setting up loudspeakers so people outside can hear what BPL President Amy Ryan has to say at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the still officially doomed Faneuil branch. Last night, Ryan told supporters of the Dorchester Lower Mills branch, also slated for a spring shutdown, that library officials would consider keeping branches open if money can be found.
BPL wants neighborhoods' advice on how to close their libraries
By adamg - 10/25/10 - 7:27 amBut what if the neighborhoods say no? Tough. BPL officials hold "working sessions" on how to replace the some of the services now provided by the doomed branches tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Dorchester Lower Mills branch and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Faneuil branch in Oak Square.
Sessions are planned for next month at Orient Heights and Washington Village (South Boston).
More.
Oak Square could get Japanese food
By adamg - 10/13/10 - 2:17 pmA Japanese restaurant proposed for 529 Washington St. goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Oct. 20.
The license proposal for 350-square-foot Hoshi Japanese Restaurant calls for hours of 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week.
It's wet all over, but even more so in Oak Square
By adamg - 8/25/10 - 9:14 amWhere a 12-inch water main under Washington Street up and burst itself this morning, creating a sinkhole and disrupting the commute for Oak Square commuters as the city shut the street and diverted MBTA buses - but without telling any of the repair crews what to tell soggy bus riders where their buses went. The Globe reports the official BWSC response: "It's just one of those sinkholes." La di da.
New Balance challenges Brighton residents to turn the old Presentation School into a community center
By adamg - 5/27/10 - 3:10 pmThe Brighton-based sneaker company says that if the Presentation School Foundation raises $100,000 by June 11, it'll kick in $200,000.
Earlier this month, the foundation said it needed to raise $275,000 by mid-June to begin renovation and construction at the Oak Square site, last used as a parochial school six years ago. Because of the timing of an overall $4.5-million loan deal, the foundation says if it can't raise the money, it will have to look at selling off the building.
Under the foundation's plans, the building will house a variety of services and groups, from a pre-school and family health clinic to space for local organizations to hold meetings.
