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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 - 3/16/24 - 10:37 am

A federal jury yesterday convicted the one-time head of the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park of helping to run a long running overtime scam in which officers would routinely put in for overtime they never worked. Read more.

By adamg - 3/15/24 - 11:27 pm

Boston Police responding to 911 calls about gunfire in the area of Iaconno Playground in Hyde Park around 8:40 p.m. found two houses with gunshot damage - one at Readville Street and Como Road, the other further up Como, past Reynold Road.

By adamg - 2/20/24 - 10:30 pm
Surveillance photos of suspects

Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for two men who held up the Hyde Park Market at River Street and Wood Avenue around 5:50 p.m. and then, about an hour later, the CVS on Hyde Park Avenue, about a mile away. Read more.

By adamg - 2/11/24 - 5:43 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old for last Wednesday's gunpoint holdup of a Domino's delivery person on Fairmount Hill n Hyde Park. Read more.

By adamg - 2/9/24 - 6:05 pm
Domino's robbers

Photos of suspects via BPD.

Boston Police report they are looking for two teenagers they say held up a Domino's delivery driver outside 21 Woodglen Road in Hyde Park around 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 12:11 pm
Jay Covitz in Ron's

Ron's manager Jay Covitz at hearing from the ice-cream shop and candlepin alley.

Update: Approved, but pending the board finding an available license in a drawer or something.

The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to approve a proposal by Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling on Hyde Park Avenue in Cleary Square to add beer and wine to the soft drinks it now offers keglers. Read more.

By adamg - 1/30/24 - 9:22 pm

WCVB reports a man trying to get from one side of the Hyde Park train station to the other around 3:10 p.m. was hit and killed by a commuter-rail train on one of the busiest stretches of train tracks in the Boston are - used by both commuter-rail and high-speed Amtrak trains. A fence separates the two sides of the station to try to keep people from attempting to cross the tracks.

By adamg - 1/28/24 - 3:00 pm

Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling, 1231 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, is seeking a beer and wine license. Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 11:24 am

CommonWealth Beacon reports on yet another effort by Boston lawmakers to convince the T to change the Hyde Park, Readville and West Roxbury commuter-rail stations to the same zone as the Fairmount one - which could save riders hundreds of dollars a year. But T officials say they're more interested in an overall reduced-fare system it's looking to set-up for low-income riders across the entire commuter-rail network.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:22 pm

Coffee Break Cafe, 680 Truman Parkway in Hyde Park, announced tonight it will serve its last cup at 3 p.m. on Jan. 27. Read more.

By adamg - 1/11/24 - 12:35 pm
Seized marijuana, gun

Photo of seized stuff by BPD.

Boston Police report officers keeping an eye on the Reservation Road skate park due to recent community complaints arrested a Randolph man on gun and drug charges on Tuesday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/7/24 - 1:26 pm

Around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, a crying man called 911 to report that when he came home, he found his girlfriend cheating on him, so he shot her dead and was now standing there wanting to die. Read more.

By adamg - 12/26/23 - 10:16 am
Fogg in Wolcott Square

Jan drove through some creepy pea soup in Readville's Wolcott Square last night.

Mike shows us the view out his Back Bay window this morning - and reports the barely visible crane in the center pane is just a block away: Read more.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 12:57 pm
Rendering of proposed apartment building on River Street

Rendering by Context.

The Zoning Board of Appeal this week approved a four-story, 28-unit apartment building at 1081 River St. in Hyde Park. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 12:31 pm

A crash involving a school bus and several vehicles outside the Henry Grew School, 40 Gordon Ave. in Hyde Park this morning injured a parent standing on the sidewalk as students were arriving for the day. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 10:03 pm

Boston Real Estate Times reports the Boston Pickle Club has leased 20,000 square feet of space at 91 Sprague St. in Hyde Park for an indoor pickleball facility - which could open by Feb. 1. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/23 - 1:41 pm
Flynn and the two students

Flynn before realizing why Mohamed (l) and Blackmon were getting the congratulations he'd signed.

The Boston City Council yesterday officially congratulated two New Mission High School students for their activism without realizing that that involved organizing a walkout at the Hyde Park school last week to call for an end to Israeli warfare in Gaza and freedom for Palestine. Read more.

By adamg - 12/3/23 - 12:23 pm

Boston Police report the arrest of four men who got into several cars in the area of Beaver and Cleveland streets around 5 a.m. on Saturday - because their owners had left them running to warm them up - and even drove some of them a short distance up the street. Read more.

By adamg - 12/1/23 - 2:07 pm

A federal judge this week agreed with prosecutors and sentenced Fermin Castillo, 43, to 25 years in federal prison following his conviction on charges of conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Read more.

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