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By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:39 pm

Mayor Wu today announced six Open Streets events in Boston, adding Hyde Park to the list of streets that will be shut for several hours as a sort of neighborhood-wide block party. Read more.

By adamg - 3/22/24 - 5:58 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled today that the proposed $80-million renovation of White Stadium to support a professional women's soccer team would actually expand public access both to the stadium and nearby park areas and gave the city and the nascent soccer team permission to continue. Read more.

By adamg - 3/21/24 - 9:46 pm

The other night, state Rep. Sam Montaño (D-15th Suffolk) hosted a meeting at English High School to talk about how to consider Boston Medical Center's plans to turn Shattuck Hospital into a large recovery center possibly featuring several hundred housing units in addition to a rebuilt hospital building. Read more.

By adamg - 3/21/24 - 9:05 pm

My Roxbury, My Community, My Home | Sarah Anne Shaw Story

WBZ reports on the life and death of Sarah-Ann Shaw, a Roxbury native who became the city's first Black woman TV reporter.

By adamg - 3/19/24 - 10:04 am
Rendering of proposed apartment building on Malcolm X Boulevard

Rendering of the view from across Malcolm X by Embarc.

A trio of developers have filed plans with the BPDA to build two buildings with 111 apartments and 21 condos on Malcolm X Boulevard at Guild Street in Roxbury. Read more.

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.

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