Around 9:45 p.m. in the area of Centre and Bickford streets. Nobody hit.
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By adamg - 3/15/23 - 5:34 pm
Update: MBTA says it wasn't concrete, but about a pound of felt.
Two largeish concrete chunks observed this morning.
By adamg - 3/15/23 - 11:45 am
A woman who has been held in institutions since she was arrested in 2019 on charges she repeatedly stabbed a Boston EMT as she was being taken to Mass. General has a hearing scheduled next month to determine whether she should be allowed to walk out of the residential substance-abuse program at Shattuck Hospital where she now lives. Read more.
By adamg - 3/6/23 - 2:39 pm
Victim identified as Orlando Watkins, 44, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was found dead of gunshot wounds at 940 Parker St. in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 11:57 am
Boston Police report arresting an employee at Seed, 401 Centre St. in Hyde Square, for the Glock with a bullet in the chamber and two magazines loaded with a total of 35 bullets they say he brought to work yesterday - two days after a dispensary in Roslindale was robbed at gunpoint. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 9:38 am
Jamaica Plain News reports a Haitian restaurant will soon replace 100% Delicias on Centre Street.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 9:23 am
Robert Orthman of Roslindale and Garrett Casey of Jamaica Plain have both filed with the state to run as Democrats for the 10th Suffolk state representative's seat Ed Coppinger resigned from this week. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/23 - 9:32 am
Jamaica Plain News reports Boston officials are negotiating the purchase of the Washington Street lparcel that was long an informal park until Clear Channel put a fence around it to protect its all important billboard. Community groups had cared for the land for more than 20 years, turning it into a peace garden and taking care of things property owners would normally have to do, such as snow and trash removal.
By adamg - 2/18/23 - 9:08 pm
Bournedale fire aftermath. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 49 Bournedale Rd. in Jamaica Plain for a fire around 4:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/18/23 - 10:48 am
Mark Smith enjoyed the morning light filtering through the giant hemlocks at the Arnold Arboretum.
By adamg - 2/17/23 - 3:42 pm
Every winter, the Boston Fire Department cuts a hole or two in the frozen surface of Jamaica Pond so its divers can practice some cold-weather rescuing. The pond never really froze up this winter, except thinly during that brief weekend freeze, but divers were out in the cold water today anyway.
Despite the lack of ice it is important to maintain efficiency .
By adamg - 2/13/23 - 9:52 pm
A Roxbury teenager was ordered held without bail at her arraignment today on charges she murdered a woman and stabbed another teen in Jamaica Plain on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/13/23 - 10:05 am
A fed-up citizen files a 311 report about a Porsche Cayenne that's been sitting on Creighton Street in Jamaica Plain for months now - with a 2018 rejection sticker. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/23 - 5:52 pm
Detective photographs evidence on Woodside Avenue. Photo by Live Boston.
Murder victim identified as Brianna Brown, 21.
Boston Police report two people were stabbed repeatedly at 5 Woodside Ave., off Washington Street in Jamaica Plain, shortly before 5 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/23 - 11:15 am
Public Coffee Co., 182 Hyde Park Ave. in Jamaica Plain, affiliated with a Wesleyan start-up church, held its official grand opening this morning - with several people standing outside protesting Wesleyan positions on LGBTQ people and abortion. Read more.
By adamg - 2/9/23 - 12:24 pm
There are always mallards at Jamaica Pond, sometimes supplemented in the spring and summer by a family or two of wood ducks (and one black Muscovy duck in love with a mallard), but the pond now is home, even if temporarily, to all sorts of other ducks. Read more.
By adamg - 2/3/23 - 11:09 pm
Nala went missing from her home on Dalrymple Street in Jamaica Plain around 2 p.m. on Jan. 22. Her owner is offering a $3,000 reward for her safe return, no questions asked. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/23 - 11:12 am
Mark Smith captured some of the winter-blooming witch hazel at the Arnold Arboretum today.
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