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By adamg - 3/25/24 - 11:43 am

A Dorchester man faces federal drug charges after, investigators say, he used a scooter to ferry 30,000 fentanyl pills and more than four pounds of other narcotics from his Dorchester apartment to a Mission Hill parking lot on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 3/11/24 - 10:06 pm

How deep is the pothole at Leon and Ruggles street? It's so deep one irate citizen filed a 311 complaint that references a late-20th-century philosopher: Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 1:27 pm

City councilors yesterday denounced management at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center, 120 Fisher Ave. on Mission Hill, for the way it's planning to close by July 1, frightening residents and delaying or bouncing employee paychecks. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 12:36 pm
Car on the E Line tracks at Brigham Circle

RadRebe captured the scene near Brigham Circle shortly before 6:30 a.m., when a driver in a car with Connecticut plates had somehow gotten onto the Green Line tracks. Read more.

By adamg - 1/27/24 - 2:20 pm

A one-time member of the Columbia Point Dawgs gang, who spent several years in federal prison for crack dealing and being a felon in possession of a gun faces more prison time after a federal jury convicted him of being a felon in possession of a gun again, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/16/24 - 1:48 pm
A snow Mission Hill

Handmaid captured Mission Hill in today's snow.

By adamg - 12/28/23 - 2:50 pm

The MBTA alerts us, and more important, Green Line riders:

Following up on the previous announcement from December 21, the MBTA is today reminding riders that Green Line service on the B branch between North Station and Babcock Street, on the E branch between North Station and Heath Street, and on the C and D branches between North Station and Kenmore station will be suspended all day from start to end of service for 10 days from January 3-12 and for 13 days from January 16- 28.

By adamg - 12/20/23 - 11:28 am
Wu and Joey Bennett hug

Wu and Bennett's nephew, Joey, hug as other Bennett familiy members and Alan Swanson look on.

Mayor Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox today apologized to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, who were investigated and even arrested for supposedly killing Carol Stuart when, in fact, it was her husband Charles who shot her after they left a childbirth class at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 23, 1989. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 2:10 pm

A being-driven-mad citizen files a 311 complaint about the non-stop pinging or ringing, but definitely not singing on Mission Hill: Read more.

By adamg - 12/12/23 - 9:27 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 19-year-old they say shot Fermin Baez to death on June 7, 2021. Read more.

By adamg - 12/6/23 - 9:32 am
Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD

Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.

Boston Police report they are seeking help to find for four men they say "attacked several people at random in the Mission Hill Area and robbed another victim, taking his cellphone" on Dec. 1. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/23 - 10:31 am

Jamaica Plain News reports that District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) candidates Ben Weber and William King will meet in a forum Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at Casa Verde in Jamaica Plain that will also feature an all-you-can eat lunch for $2.

By adamg - 10/2/23 - 11:19 am
Old payphones on Tremont Street, Mission Hills

At the tone, the time will be 1987.

A disgruntled citizen filed a 311 report this morning to complain about these odious double eyesores at the Shell station on Tremont Street at Brigham Circle, which look like they haven't emitted dial tones in a couple decades now.

Earlier:
Still working, un-rusted payphones on Dartmouth Street.
Bostonians lining up for payphones.

By adamg - 9/29/23 - 1:44 pm
Rendering of proposed new building

Drone's-eye view from atop Roxbury Crossing T stop by Utile.

Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services this week submitted plans to the BPDA for a six-story, 94-unit apartment building between Tremont Street and Station Street along the Orange Line and Northeast Corridor tracks instead of the ten-story office building it had already won approval for. Read more.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 3:11 pm

Bus/bike lanes on Huntington Avenue between Brigham Circle and Gainborough Street will be made permanent by the end of the year with the addition of red paint, after the MBTA and BTD said today that 39 and CT-2 riders are saving up to two minutes per trip during the morning and evening commutes when compared to the same period in 2019. Read more.

By adamg - 9/25/23 - 2:58 pm
Car on Green Line tracks

Transit Police report on a crash at Brigham Circle around 8 p.m. on Saturday: Read more.

By adamg - 9/11/23 - 1:45 pm

Residents in four City Council districts have preliminary elections tomorrow to narrow the fields in the November elections to two candidates each. There is no preliminary for the four citywide council seats because there are eight candidates, all of whom will battle in November. Read more.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 11:15 am

Transit Police report they are investigating a case of bus rage at Tremont and Wigglesworth streets near Brigham Circle around 3 p.m. on Tuesday: Read more.

By adamg - 9/1/23 - 12:36 pm

Complaints to 311 about mattresses on Boston Move-In Day. Allston/Brighton and Mission Hill, of course, but a fair number of complaints from South Boston, too. Also see: Allston Christmas Bingo - North End edition.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 1:28 pm

Boston Animal Care and Control reports five rabid raccoons have been recovered of late in Boston - most recently on Mission Hill: Read more.

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