The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports MassDOT has decided to go with a wider New Washington Street and reconfigured intersections rather than a new overpass when it tears down the current crumbling Casey Overpass in a $52-million redo.
Hector "Nemo" Soto was ordered held without bail today at his arraignment for the murder of Kenneth "Black" Soto - no relation - on Oct. 16, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Hector Soto, 20, was arrested last night in Roslindale, the DA's office says.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports some home-farming advocates aren't waiting for Boston officials to amend city zoning codes to allow backyard poultry, but that has at least one neighbor of an "illicit chicken-raiser" crying fowl.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the state Department of Transportation failed to announce what it plans to do about the Casey Overpass by its own deadline this week and now says it doesn't know when it will.
This is Tollgate Way.
Take the 34 bus up Washington Street to Forest Hills and it always announces Tollgate Way. Nobody ever gets off there, though. Except maybe the ghosts.
Across the train tracks, on Hyde Park Avenue, a street sign also announces Tollgate Way:
Zipping along the aisles.
Patty Neal reports spotting somebody shopping on a Segway in the Jamaica Plain Whole Foods today:
The gentrification is now complete.
Felicia and Erika Stroud and Lydia Sanford
Three women were arraigned today on charges they stomped a man and yelled homophobic slurs at the Forest Hills T stop on Sunday evening.
Boston Police report arresting four people at a Hyde Park Avenue convenience store on drug charges yesterday.
Wicked Local Somerville reports that JP Licks is coming out with a line of hemp-based non-dairy ice cream. The press release doesn't say what the chain will call the stuff, but Pot Pie seems too chickeny.
The Globe chronicles the mysterious shutdown of Bon Savor; State Department has apparently decided opening a restaurant not entrepreneurial enough for its visa program for entrepreneurs.
The Animal Rescue League posts a photo of the poor hawk, found in a backyard near the Arboretum today.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports city officials have started looking at changing a section of the city zoning code that prohibits backyard chickens and offers an exclusive interview with one of JP's bootleg chicken ranchers, who only talked on the condition she be identified by a pseudonym.
Last year, you may recall, a pioneering Roslindale resident was ordered to banish her chickens outside the city limits.
The Globe reports a developer has submitted plans to the BRA to build a 200-unit apartment building - with 150 underground parking spaces - on the Home for Little Wanderers' Jamaica Plain campus.
The Home announced last summer it would sell off the land and wander to Walpole.
The people who want to keep the Casey Overpass say the space under a new overpass could become a marvelous cultural gathering spot instead of remaining the dreary collection of parking spaces and muggers' hiding spots that it has been for the last 50 years.
Via Boston Daily.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Peoples Federal Savings Bank has no grounds to immediately bar the Connecticut-based People's United Bank from opening branches in the Boston area under that name.
In response to a citizen complaint about a neighbor constantly using a traffic cone to claim a space on Weld Hill Street in Forest Hills, a city DPW inspector reports:
I sent an inspector to this location, they reported back that the cones are not there now. We will keep patroling the area periodically so we can try and confiscate the cones.
A Needham man who worked in Jamaica Plain today became the latest local man to be charged with possession of child porn.
Keith Millan was arraigned on five counts of possession of child pornography in West Roxbury District Court. Judge Mary Ann Driscoll set bail at $25,000 and barred him from computers and children under 16 - although she will let the Department of Children and Families decide whether he can see his own children, the DA's office reports.
Millan's LinkedIn page still lists him as a property manager at Leeder Management, which runs the Perkins Square apartment complex in Jamaica Plain.
A disgusted citizen in Jamaica Plain complains about neighborhood dog owners:
what is up with all the dog crap on the sidewalks in JP? winter is usually bad, with sneaky dog owners leaving layer on layer of crap piles to be covered with snow until the spring thaw reveals what looks like anarchaeological dig gone very wrong. but we haven't had snow and crap is everywhere! can we at least get some signs up, not that i think the troglodyte owner can either read or care. and no, i don't have a photo-- do u really want one?
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