The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.
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By adamg - 7/24/24 - 10:23 am
"Daylight come and me wan' go home," Handmaid recites at this morning's cloudy sunrise over Franklin Park.
By adamg - 7/22/24 - 10:35 pm
The man police say was behind the wheel of a stolen car at the Forest Hills T stop last week who injured two officers in a failed attempt to flee was ordered held without bail today pending a dangerousness hearing on several charges, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 7/18/24 - 8:57 pm
The SUV after it came to a stop. Photo from the upper busway by SW.
Update: Driver arraigned.
Boston Police officers were approaching a 2024 BMW SUV at the parking lot at the Forest Hills MBTA station when the driver tried to flee, running over an officer, who opened fire and hit the driver in the head. Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/24 - 12:27 pm
A disgruntled resident files a 311 complaint about the ice-cream truck whose driver keeps parking in a bike lane at Green and Elm streets in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/24 - 11:33 am
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A Burlington developer has proposed replacing a "run down" single-family house at 140 Wachusett St. in Jamaica Plain, between the Boston Teachers Union and Young Achievers Schools, with a 28-unit apartment building with 20 parking spaces. Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/24 - 11:02 pm
Victim identifed as Andy Baez Manan, 35, of Boston.
A man in a car was shot in the chest on the Arborway near Washington Street in Forest Hills around 10:20 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 7/11/24 - 9:46 am
A federal magistrate judge this week ruled a 17-year-old from Istanbul will have to remain behind bars while he awaits a hearing on extraditing him to Turkey to face charges he ran down five people standing on the side of the road, killing one, while speeding around a curve in his father's Porsche. Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/24 - 4:39 pm
The Boston City Council today agreed to look at using rodent birth-control pellets to try to control the city's burgeoning supply of rats, by building on a pilot started in Jamaica Plain last year that one councilor said had meant an 80% reduction in the gnawing, long-tailed vermin. Read more.
By adamg - 7/6/24 - 9:08 am
Boston Police reported a transformer on Gay Head Street, off Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, zapped itself out of business around 8:15 a.m. Eversource estimates all the powerless people in that area should have their juice restored by 11 a.m.
By adamg - 7/5/24 - 10:01 am
Three men were shot outside 285 Centre St. in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain around 1:25 this morning.
Two of the men were shot in the arm, one in the leg. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of at least one victim's injuries.
By adamg - 7/4/24 - 10:52 am
Jamaica Plain News reports that pickleballers, who have already managed to squeeze out tennis on the courts off South Street, are now trying to muscle out basketball players, too, to the point where elders of the pickleball community are asking the young'uns to show some courtesy and not do that, at least not before 9:30 a.m.
Some relief could come later this year when the city re-allocates one of the four tennis courts at English High for pickleballing.
By adamg - 6/30/24 - 3:42 pm
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Heath Street Gang associate to 22 months in prison after he admitted that, yes, he was the guy housing police officers found with saleable amounts of cocaine on him in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain last September, even though he wasn't supposed to be anywhere near the complex because of his earlier convictions on gun charges. Read more
By adamg - 6/28/24 - 3:24 pm
Boston firefighters responded to the outbound side of the Jackson Square Orange Line station around 12:30 p.m. on a report of a person under the train. Read more.
By adamg - 6/28/24 - 12:22 pm
Acklerley Communications of Massachusetts yesterday sold the small parcel where it had a billboard on Washington Street in Egleston Square to the city of Boston for $300,000, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.
By adamg - 6/19/24 - 10:41 am
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum has one of those giant corpse plants and that it could bloom by month's end. But only Arbs members will get a chance to see and smell it.
By adamg - 6/18/24 - 9:45 am
Handmaid hoped to see some brilliantly colored clouds at daybreak in Franklin Park, but instead got a sign it's time to try to stay cool for the next few days. She quotes Laurie Anderson: Read more.
By adamg - 6/11/24 - 11:16 am
Paul Friedmann got a good view of the sunrise over Boston this morning.
Handmaid watched the sun go up over Franklin Park: Read more.
By adamg - 6/10/24 - 4:01 pm
A firefighter on Tower Ladder 10 at the 746 Centre St. firehouse in Jamaica Plain today sued the city and Fire Commissioner Paul Burke for the four-day suspension he says he got after the department had done nothing about the poor condition of the sidewalk and driveway outside the station and he wrote directly to the city's chief of streets. Read more.
By adamg - 6/10/24 - 3:22 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 12-year-old on charges he threatened somebody with a knife at Washington Street and Chilcott Place on the Jamaica Plain side of Egleston Square around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
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