Boston Police report officers, including gang-unit members, arrested Jonathan Velasquez, 18, on gun charges a Seaver and Harold streets in Roxbury around 12:45 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Harold Street
Stanley Stacos reports they were shot on Harold Street near Crawford Street - less than a half mile from where somebody would be murdered about an hour later.
Boston Police report gang-unit officers investigating gunfire on Humboldt Court in Roxbury around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday arrested two Dorchester men they found a couple of blocks away on Harold Street, sitting in a car with guns. Read more.
Shot-up Jeep. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a man escaped serious injury early Sunday when somebody started firing at his Jeep from just a few feet away, in what might have been a case of mistaken identity in the area of Harold and Seaver streets in Roxbury. Read more.
A fire that erupted around 4 a.m. tore through Holy Mt. Zion Church on Harold Street in Roxbury. Read more.
Shortly after 9:30 p.m. near where the road passes Harold Street, between Humboldt and Walnut avenues. No reports yet of any people, cars or buildings hit.
The new Garrison-Trotter Farm on Harold Street
City and state officials joined Harold Street residents today to officially break ground on the transformation of an old city-owned vacant lot into a vegetable farm made possible under a change in city zoning to allow farms in the city's more urbanized areas.
The Garrison-Trotter Farm will let participants - local residents who have been undergoing training in farming - provide fresh food to local residents and restaurants.
