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By adamg - 12/24/23 - 8:46 pm
Boston firefighters responded to a six-unit duplex at 20 Rockville Park in Roxbury around 7:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.
By adamg - 12/24/23 - 12:25 pm
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 - 10:08 pm
Eversource map showing outages in Roxbury, South End at 11 p.m.
Update 11 p.m.: The number of businesses and homes without power is up to 7,959.
Eversource reports a series of power outages from just north of Franklin Park up to Boston Medical Center and areas near Tremont and Dartmouth street to the turnpike. Some 204 business and homes were blacked out as of 10:05 p.m. - as well as traffic and street lights.
By adamg - 12/21/23 - 3:10 pm
In 1856 or thereabouts, A.H. Folsom photographed the northwest corner of the intersection of Warren and Dudley streets in Roxbury.
The view of that corner today: Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 9:32 pm
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston man on charges he held up La Familia market, 64A Blue Hill Ave. at Moreland Street in Roxbury around 10:35 a.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 9:04 pm
Boston Police report charging Christopher Meade, 30, of Malden, for a shooting on Clifford Street in Roxbury that sent a man to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds around 3:50 a.m. on Dec. 4. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 10:46 am
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 - 12/13/23 - 12:44 pm
Update: Approved.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to grant a liquor license to the operators of the proposed Jazz Urbane Cafe in the Bolling Building in Nubian Square. Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/23 - 11:52 am
Rough sketch of the proposed new building.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center today filed an "institutional master plan" with details, if not architectural renderings, of their proposed 14-story cancer hospital on what is now the site of the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/23 - 10:46 am
Rendering by Michael Washington Architects.
The Cruz Development Corp., which won BPDA approval in 2016 for a 44-unit senior-citizen apartment building at Warren and Waverly streets in Roxbury, is asking for permission to instead put up the building as a 48-unit affordable building open to anybody. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/23 - 10:39 pm
Boston Latin School Head of School Jason Gallagher alerted parents today that a student discovered "a small swastika" etched into a gym door - even as the school was planning to launch programs "related to antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab discrimination." Read more.
By adamg - 12/6/23 - 5:03 pm
Boston city councilors today condemned what they call an abuse by the state-owned Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Crossing: Boston student athletes have to clear out by 3:30 p.m. so busloads of students from well-off suburbs can use its state-of-the-art facilities for training and not get home too late. Read more.
By adamg - 12/6/23 - 4:12 pm
The Boston City Council voted 10-2-1 today to formally oppose BPS's plans to move the O'Bryant School from its current location on Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury to a rebuilt West Roxbury Education Complex on VFW Parkway, saying that location, almost in Dedham, is just too far way for many students and that BPS has failed to really take into account the concerns of O'Bryant students, parents and teachers, let alone possible alternatives. Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/23 - 12:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was packing both a gun loaded with ten bullets and "five plastic bags of what they believed to be crack cocaine" outside 941 Massachusetts Ave. shortly before 8 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/1/23 - 9:42 am
The group working to bring a women's professional soccer team to Boston will soon file detailed renovation plans for turning the dilapidated White Stadium into a state-of-the-art soccer arena to be shared with Boston Public Schools and the general public - to be opened in time for the start of the 2026 National Women's Soccer League season. Read more.
By adamg - 11/28/23 - 9:33 am
The children of Margaret Flanagan of Saugus, who died of cancer in 2018, yesterday sued Harvard Medical School and former mortuary director Cedric Lodge for what may have happened to her body parts after she willed her body to the school and then died. Read more.
By adamg - 11/23/23 - 10:48 pm
Police responding to a report of shots fired at Blue Hill Avenue and Edgewood Street around 9:20 p.m. found spent shells, a home and car hit by gunfire and an abandoned car that ended up at the front door of a townhouse on Edgewood Street.
Not long after, a man showed up at a local emergency room with gunshot injuries to his arm and leg.
By adamg - 11/17/23 - 10:08 pm
A man was shot in the leg on Zeigler Street near Dearborn Street shortly before 7:30 p.m.
Three cars were also hit by gunfire. Shell casings were found at Zeigler and Dearborn.
By adamg - 11/15/23 - 5:08 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted a man of first-degree murder for fatally stabbing Ricardo Garcia after Garcia tried to protect his girlfriend from the man and a couple of his pals in the Mass and Cass area on Aug. 8, 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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