Mission Hill

Candidates to replace Zakim square off in forum

By adamg - 10/29/19 - 8:54 am

The Boston Sun reports on a recent forum with Kenzie Bok and Jennifer Nassour, who are running for the District 8 (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, Mission Hill) seat that Josh Zakim is retiring from.

Zakim endorses possible successor

By adamg - 9/21/19 - 11:23 am

City Councilor Josh Zakim (Fenway, Mission Hill, Back Bay, Beacon Hill) yesterday endorsed Kenzie Bok in Tuesday's preliminary election for the District 8 seat he's giving up. Read more.

North Shore Republican makes endorsement in Boston district council race

By adamg - 9/18/19 - 9:00 pm

Gov. Baker today endorsed fellow Republican Jennifer Nassour for the District 8 City Council seat (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) being given up by Josh Zakim. Read more.

Council elections: Forums, Latino candidates

By adamg - 9/16/19 - 8:56 am

The Ward 10 Democrats are hosting a forum for candidates for the District 8 (Fenway, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill) seat that Josh Zakim is giving up, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Tobin School, 40 Smith St. on Mission Hill. Read more.

What Celtics centers use when they don't feel like bending down to pick something up?

By adamg - 9/10/19 - 3:34 pm

Mission Hill's Boston Building Resources, which specializes in recycling cool home-improvement stuff, was left wondering by a recent donation of a shovel with a seven-foot-long handle: Like what was it used for?

Court upholds demotion of BPD detective who failed to follow up in choking case against man who later killed Amy Lord

By adamg - 9/5/19 - 11:11 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that Boston Police had the right to demote a police detective because of errors he made in two cases - including a violent Mission Hill attack and robbery in which he failed to interview suspect Edwin Alemany before Alemany went on to kidnap and murder Amy Lord just a few months later. Read more.

Elderly man suffers fatal head trauma on Huntington Avenue

By adamg - 8/28/19 - 11:22 pm

NorthEndWaterfont.com reports North Enders have set up a GoFundMe page for Nico, who played violin on the Prado behind the Paul Revere statue until thieves stole his violin - by cutting the ties he used to keep it connected to him as he slept.Read more.

The shit male candidates don't have to deal with

By adamg - 8/21/19 - 6:12 pm

Hélène Vincent is running for the District 8 (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) city-council seat that Josh Zakim is giving up. Last night, she posted a photo of a stairway in an apartment or condo building and, in a series of tweets, reported: Read more.

Mission Hill residents watched their roommate's TV - being carried out of their apartment by a burglar

By adamg - 7/30/19 - 10:17 pm

Boston Police report arresting a local man last night after he allegedly lifted a flat-screen TV from an apartment at 98 Calumet St. - as two residents on their couch watched him leave with the TV under his arm. Read more.

Court upholds murder conviction for man who shot somebody on Mission Hill

By adamg - 6/28/19 - 11:07 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld Keith Hobbs's first-degree murder sentence for the Dec. 16, 2010 death of Demetrius Blocker on Horadan Way. Read more.

Police say man tried to pay for cross-town ride with fake bill, was rebuffed, held driver up at gunpoint

By adamg - 6/14/19 - 6:32 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on an armed-robbery charge for the way he ended his ride from Dorchester to Brigham Circle at the end of a gun. Read more.

In Jamaica Plain, a little girl misses her stuffed pig

By adamg - 6/4/19 - 10:20 pm

Roselynn Rodríguez Manzanet reports:

Please help my little friend, M, find her Mary Pig. She is heartbroken. Last seen on the 39 bus Sunday.

E Line service comes to a halt; a fallen tree is at fault

By adamg - 5/31/19 - 11:25 pm

A tree on South Hungtington Avenue that suddenly realized gravity is not just a good idea, it's the law, came crashing down across the street at Back of the Hill, taking trolley power lines with it and forcing the T to end service at Brigham Circle.

Man charged with trying to gun somebody down outside Roxbury Crossing T stop last month

By adamg - 5/30/19 - 8:58 am

Boston Police report arresting Eugene Parrish, 22, on charges he shot at somebody outside the Roxbury Crossing Orange Line station around 1:45 p.m. on April 12. Read more.

Candidates who want to replace Josh Zakim discuss issues, themselves

By adamg - 5/23/19 - 9:47 am

Candidates running for the District 8 (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill, Bay Village, Fenway) met for a forum on Tuesday. Watch the forum.

Participating candidates were Kenzie Bok, Montez Haywood, Landon Lemoine, Kristen Mobilia, Jennifer Nassour and Helene Vincent. Read more.

Lawyer best known for Republican efforts joins race to replace Josh Zakim on the Boston City Council

By adamg - 5/6/19 - 6:28 pm

Jennifer Nassour of the Back Bay today announced her candidacy for the District 8 (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill, West End) City Council seat that Josh Zakim is giving up.

Rocky checks to see if the coast is clear

By adamg - 4/25/19 - 6:12 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this bandit on Mission Hill this morning.

Body of missing Wentworth student found on Mission Hill

By adamg - 4/6/19 - 10:11 pm

UPDATED, 12:30 p.m., Sunday.

Boston Police report finding the body of Maximillian Carbone, 19, a Wenthworth student, in a wooded lot off Terrace Street near Cedar Street this morning. Read more.

Four now in race to replace Zakim on Boston City Council

By adamg - 3/28/19 - 1:11 pm

The Boston Guardian reports the latest to get in the run to represent the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Bay Village, Fenway and part of Mission Hill is Kenzie Bok of Beacon Hill.

Zakim recently announced he would not seek re-election to the seat he's held since 2013.

Another Boston councilor not seeking re-election

By adamg - 3/20/19 - 9:52 pm

The Globe reports that Josh Zakim (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill, Bay Village) won't be running for re-election this fall.

Zakim, first elected in 2013, joins Tim McCarthy (Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan), who announced in January he wouldn't be running again.