The Boston Parks and Recreation Department, which owns the Arnold Arboretum, and Harvard University, which has 858 years left on its lease of the land, have petitioned the city Public Improvement Commission to change the name of Bussey Street to Flora Way. Read more.
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report a guy has been looking for chain-wearing seniors getting off buses or trains in Hyde Park, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, then following them and ripping the chains off their necks. Read more.
Suspect in Weymouth robbery and Kelly's photo from his driver's license, via State Police affidavit
A Chelsea man was arrested today on charges he held up Rockland Trust branches on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain and Truman Parkway in Hyde Park last month, as well as a bank in Weymouth. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports Hyde Park's Roundhead Brewing will take over the Pinebank promontory at Jamaica Pond Aug. 16-17 and Aug. 23-24 for a beer garden that will feature both beer and "farm-to-plate Caribbean American eats."
Lahens during one of the robberies. From FBI affidavit.
A federal judge this week sentenced a man to 77 months in prison for robbing a series of businesses in Boston in 2023 while he was on probation for a series of armed robberies in New York. Read more.
Momentum introduces us to CargoB, a sort of Bluebikes-like bike-share service, only for people who have stuff to move around as they glide and pedal on their e-cargo bikes. Currently available in Jamaica Plain, Porter Square and Winter Hill.
Boston Police report arresting Christian Coloma, 25, of Roslindale on charges related to a man getting shot in the chest outside the Jackson Square Orange Line stop yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Update: Suspect arrested in connection with the shooting.
A man in a pickup truck was shot in the chest next to the Jackson Square MBTA stop shortly before 2:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
A possible suspect on a scooter was detained several blocks away; a gun recovered along the route he took to get there.
The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.
"Daylight come and me wan' go home," Handmaid recites at this morning's cloudy sunrise over Franklin Park.
The man police say was behind the wheel of a stolen car at the Forest Hills T stop last week who injured two officers in a failed attempt to flee was ordered held without bail today pending a dangerousness hearing on several charges, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The SUV after it came to a stop. Photo from the upper busway by SW.
Update: Driver arraigned.
Boston Police officers were approaching a 2024 BMW SUV at the parking lot at the Forest Hills MBTA station when the driver tried to flee, running over an officer, who opened fire and hit the driver in the head. Read more.
A disgruntled resident files a 311 complaint about the ice-cream truck whose driver keeps parking in a bike lane at Green and Elm streets in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
Rendering by McKay Architects.
A Burlington developer has proposed replacing a "run down" single-family house at 140 Wachusett St. in Jamaica Plain, between the Boston Teachers Union and Young Achievers Schools, with a 28-unit apartment building with 20 parking spaces. Read more.
Victim identifed as Andy Baez Manan, 35, of Boston. He leaves his wife and four children.
A man in a car was shot in the chest on the Arborway near Washington Street in Forest Hills around 10:20 p.m. Read more.
A federal magistrate judge this week ruled a 17-year-old from Istanbul will have to remain behind bars while he awaits a hearing on extraditing him to Turkey to face charges he ran down five people standing on the side of the road, killing one, while speeding around a curve in his father's Porsche. Read more.
The Boston City Council today agreed to look at using rodent birth-control pellets to try to control the city's burgeoning supply of rats, by building on a pilot started in Jamaica Plain last year that one councilor said had meant an 80% reduction in the gnawing, long-tailed vermin. Read more.
Boston Police reported a transformer on Gay Head Street, off Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, zapped itself out of business around 8:15 a.m. Eversource estimates all the powerless people in that area should have their juice restored by 11 a.m.
Three men were shot outside 285 Centre St. in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain around 1:25 this morning.
Two of the men were shot in the arm, one in the leg. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of at least one victim's injuries.
Jamaica Plain News reports that pickleballers, who have already managed to squeeze out tennis on the courts off South Street, are now trying to muscle out basketball players, too, to the point where elders of the pickleball community are asking the young'uns to show some courtesy and not do that, at least not before 9:30 a.m.
Some relief could come later this year when the city re-allocates one of the four tennis courts at English High for pickleballing.
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