Jamaica Plain News reports Video Underground in Hyde Square will soon cease to be.
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By adamg - 8/15/13 - 10:17 am
Boston Police tweet this morning:
Missing person Josiah Simmons has been located. BPD thanks all agencies for assistance.
Earlier:
Friends launch search for missing owner of JP video store.
By adamg - 8/13/13 - 1:36 pm
Friends say Josiah Simmons, who owns Video Underground on Centre Street in Hyde Square, was supposed to open the store Monday morning but never showed up.
Simmons was last seen around 1 p.m. on Sunday in Hyde Square.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact Boston Police.
Simmons bought the Video Underground in 2011 after having worked there. It's Boston's last neighborhood video store.
By adamg - 6/22/13 - 10:53 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on the new signs, going up six years after being approved by the city council along Centre between Hyde and Jackson squares.
By adamg - 10/16/12 - 10:35 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on the indictment of the former executive director of Hyde/Jackson Square Main Street, charged with funnelling $20,000 of the organization's money into personal purchases.
By adamg - 10/12/12 - 7:39 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette explains how the builder behind the Blessed Sacrament project in Hyde Square is fighting the Home for Little Wanderers project on South Huntington Avenue.
By adamg - 7/27/12 - 11:58 am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday ordered a two-day suspension for the Haven, 2 Perkins St., because of an incident last month in which a police sergeant on routine patrol found the place open at 3:10 a.m. with the owner and a friend with a glass of beer inside.
By adamg - 7/20/12 - 6:14 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports a developer plans to turn the old Blessed Sacrament Church into condos going for up to $725,000 apiece.
By adamg - 7/6/12 - 9:19 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on a West Roxbury man's plans for a restaurant on the campus of the old Blessed Sacrement church, to be called Sanctuary.
No word if people who misbehave in Sanctuary will be banished to Clink - or if the new place will offer mediation to the combatants in what has become a nasty pizza battle just down the street.
By adamg - 4/28/12 - 9:36 am
Mike Ball recently wandered around Hyde and Egleston squares, taking photos of all the murals.
By adamg - 4/9/12 - 5:11 pm
Auto-Titanic.
Gretchen van Ness forwards this photo of an homage to 1912 serenely sailing through Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain.
Moments later, of course, it hit some ice and disappeared into a storm drain.
By adamg - 1/8/12 - 6:29 pm
Boston Police report that when a bicycle rider stopped into Alex's Chimi Restaurant in
By adamg - 11/4/11 - 7:26 am
The Jamaica Plain Gazette quizzed the seven candidates on some JP-specific issues. Only JP resident Sean Ryan had any criticisms of the way the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council handled the matter.
Speaking of the neighborhood council, the Gazette also reports that among the Whose Foods protesters outside the new store on its opening day earlier this week was Ben Day, the council's new chairman.
By adamg - 9/19/11 - 9:11 pm
Jamaica Plain Patch interviews the new owner of Video Underground in Hyde Square, determined to make a go of it in an era of online downloads and DVD-dispensing boxes in supermarkets.
By adamg - 8/18/11 - 1:43 pm
A man arrested but never tried for stabbing and spitting on a man on a 39 bus in Jamaica Plain in 2004 will finally face charges after police tracked him to his new home in Roxbury.
Michael Hughes, 64, never went before a jury because not long after his arrest, he was turned over to Maryland authorities to face trial on charges he killed a man preparing Christmas baskets for the poor in 1974. Convicted of second-degree murder in 2005, he spent three years in a Maryland prison, then at some point after his release came back to Boston.
According to a report by MBTA Transit Police, Hughes went berserk on a 39 bus at South and Centre streets around 4 p.m. on Sept 5, 2004 when he thought the "openly gay" man behind had deliberately kicked his seat. He allegedly whipped out a knife and began slicing the man's arm as he also spit at him and began screaming anti-gay epithets at him.
Boston Police first noticed Hughes was back in town last fall, Transit Police report: A Boston Police detective noticed a man he thought was Hughes in a homeless shelter on Massachusetts Avenue in November.
But Hughes evaded the two police forces until yesterday, when the same detective spotted him entering 6 Hartford St. in Roxbury. He alerted Transit Police, who found a default warrant for the 2004 attack and sent several detectives and officers to the address yesterday afternoon.
Police say Hughes tried to slip out the back door and then by denied any knowledge of the 2004 incident or of the alias he used at the time. His tattoos and physical characteristics, however, did him in, police report.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 8/9/11 - 10:31 am
Tacos El Charro, 349 Centre St., will re-open as soon as the city issues an inspection certificate, owner Aida Luz Navarro said this morning.
Navarro told the Boston Licensing Board she was forced to close the restaurant earlier this year due to financial problems - she didn't have enough to pay for a required permit in December, and in January, NStar shut off power due to a $7,000 unpaid bill.
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