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By adamg - 3/17/24 - 1:59 pm

Streetsblog Mass gets the scoop that the MBTA and Keolis are going to try to get battery-operated trains running on the Fairmount Line within 3 1/2 years in a pilot aimed at increasing the frequency of trains, shorten trip times and replace some antiquated old diesel-powered trains. Read more.

By adamg - 3/15/24 - 9:34 pm

A man was shot in the leg on Dabney Street in Roxbury shortly after 9:10 p.m.

By adamg - 3/14/24 - 9:09 am

Boston Parents Schoolyard News reports students and teachers at BLA are petitioning BPS to keep Rajeeve Martyn, who heads the departments of history and world languages, and Jane Victor, science department leader - now scheduled to be laid off as part of an effort to cut costs.

Students and teachers say their losses in particular would be devastating for the exam school.

Martyn petition.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 11:30 am

WFXT reports a "small number" of cases of the highly infectious virus were discovered last month at the temporary shelter at the Melnea Cass recreation center, but that there have been no new cases since public-health workers began vaccinating people there on March 1.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:53 am
Revised rendering of Green Line facility

Updated rendering showing cafe.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by Mario Signore to change his proposed three-story cannabis factory at 100 Hampden St. to include a ground-floor marijuana store and a separate cafe. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 8:44 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports that former US Attorney Rachael Rollins recently began work at Roxbury Community College, at least part time, to build a program to help the formerly incarcerated, although they didn't learn that from her:

Reached on her cell phone, Rollins said she did not want to be contacted and hung up.

By adamg - 3/9/24 - 11:03 pm

Not everything that goes wrong on the T is the T's fault, it seems. First it was the little duck and today, the T says, it had to shut the Orange Line between Forest Hills and Back Bay after an overhead Amtrak power line unspooled or snapped or something near Ruggles, causing problems for the neighboring subway line. Read more.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 12:53 pm

One alleged Heath Street gang member living with another alleged member of the gang was formally charged Friday for the drugs an ATF agent says investigators found in his room last month during a search originally aimed at the other guy as part of a sweep of some 40 alleged Heath Street members. Read more.

By adamg - 3/2/24 - 11:58 am

The Dorchester Reporter talks to people with reservations about the $44-million project, which would include new center bus lanes.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 10:29 pm
Photos of suspects

Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for five people they say were involved in the armed holdup of a person in a Roxbury Community College parking lot at Columbus Avenue and Cedar Street taking both his phone and a silver Mercedes E-class SUV. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 9:19 am

The Dorchester Reporter has the details of the plan, which calls for reconstruction to start in 2026.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 1:37 pm

WBUR reports Mayor Wu and Boston Public Schools have "indefinitely" put on hold plans to rebuild the crumbling former West Roxbury High School into a new state-of-the-art home for the John D. O'Bryant School, after parents, students and teachers raised objections to a school on the side of a swamp about as far away from the rest of the city as one could get.

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 9:36 am

James Lucien, convicted in 1995 for first-degree murder based in part on testimony and bogus evidence from a member of a gang of corrupt Boston cops, last week sued the state for the maximum $1-million wrongful imprisonment allowance and to have his criminal file - which also includes armed-robbery and illegal-gun possession convictions stemming from the murder case - expunged from court and probation records. Read more.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 1:33 pm

Citing the potential for "irreparable harm" to Franklin Park, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy yesterday sued Boston, a city trust fund and the group seeking to bring women's professional soccer to Franklin Park over plans for an $80-million rebuilding and expansion of White Stadium. Read more.

By adamg - 2/16/24 - 9:10 pm
Fire on Dorr Street

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 14 Dorr St. in Roxbury around 6 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 2:37 pm

Boston Police report arresting Jerome Brown, 43, of Brockton, on charges he stabbed a man on the Washington Street side of Ramsay Park across from Newcomb Street in Roxbury around 10:35 p.m. on Feb. 1. Read more.

By adamg - 2/11/24 - 5:29 pm
Surveillance photos of stapler attacker

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for a woman in her roll in a robbery and attack on a food deliverer on Dale Street in Roxbury Friday evening. Read more.

By adamg - 2/6/24 - 5:44 pm

Mayor Wu announced today that the city's dipping some more into its federal Covid relief funds to continue paying to let riders get on the 23, 28 and 29 buses for free for another two years. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/24 - 3:50 pm

A Dorchester man was arraigned this morning on charges he sent an overnight supervisor for the Boston Transportation Department to the hospital by punching and kicking him at Georgia and Hartwell streets in Grove Hall in Roxbury around 1:20 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 9:40 pm

CommonWeatlh Beacon reports on the transformation of the Melnea Cass Recreation Center into temporary shelter for immigrants, at least through May 31. CommonWealth notes Gov. Healey and Mayor Wu toured the site today and were met by protesters, some of whom are actual Roxbury residents and some of whom are the rag-tag anti-vaxxers who used to stand outside Wu's house banging on buckets but who had been looking for something else to scream through bullhorns about other than the evils of masks.

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