The Boston Public Improvement Commission today approved renaming the road that bisects the Arnold Arboretum as Flora Way, to honor a Black woman enslaved by a nearby landowner in the 1700s, the Rename Bussey Street group of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents reports. Read more.
Alaina Gonzalez-White shows a bag of the birth-control pellets at hearing today.
City rat fighters have largely stopped using anti-coagulants that kill not only rats, but any wild predators and pets that might eat them and is instead now relying on relying on pumping carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide into burrows to asphyxiate them, according to John Ulrich, who oversees ISD's rat control efforts. Read more.
Tristie-Mattea Ortiz reports how two classmates and she sprung into action while studying at the Copley Square library last month when they spotted a pigeon who needed help - he had "a visibly broken wing and missing toe." They were preparing to take it back on the Green Line to try to rehab it in their dorm - luckily, one of them was an avid birder - when they got a call back from 311 and were redirected to the MSPCA in Jamaica Plain, where, on the long trek over, they named the bird Freduardo.
Boston and State Police and Boston EMTs responded to Morton Street near Shattuck Hospital on a report of a young child in a car who had stopped breathing around 8 p.m.
WHDH reports an off-duty nurse also stopped to render assistance. The child began breathing again as police blocked off Morton Street and the Arborway to clear the way for the ambulance to get to Children's Hospital.
The Orange Line will be shut between Forest Hills and Back Bay Oct. 8 - 20 for some more of the repair work the T couldn't get to - or discovered it needed to do - during that month-long shutdown back in 2022.
Shuttle buses, natch. The T also suggests commuter rail or, closer to town, the Green Line.
An annoyed resident files a 311 complaint about the roadwork at Centre and Allandale streets, which aside from being a key chokepoint during the commute, leads to the Faulkner's main entrance: Read more.
Rendering (with site of current Hatoff's on right) by Choo & Company.
A developer has filed plans to replace the venerable Hatoff's gas station and the neighboring Acme auto-body shop with 256 apartments and ground-floor retail space in two buildings on either side of Rockvale Circle on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain. Read more.
Victim identified as Quami Clarke, 19. GoFundMe page for family.
A man was shot behind 277 Centre St. in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain around 9:22 p.m. Read more.
Alleged walk-up deposit at a drive-thru ATM in Needham by gang member Brandon Baez (from affidavit).
Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.
The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.
Deep Thoughts Records on South Street in Jamaica Plain announced this morning it's closing up shop on Sept. 29 and moving to the Happy Valley - closer to where its owners live: Read more.
Firefighters fight brush fire in Stony Brook Reservation. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters have been busy battling brush fires this weekend, first in Stony Brook Reservation yesterday and then in Franklin Park today - after more than three weeks without any rain. Read more.
Photo by BPL JP branch.
The BPL's Jamaica Plain branch on South Street is taking suggestions on what it should name its new bright-eyed book cart (Carty McCartface is probably too much of a cliche).
Earlier:
Googly-eyed Green Line trolleys take to the tracks.
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a request from Pimental Market, 340 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, to expand its alcohol offerings from beer and wine to hard liquor. Read more.
A federal judge has sentenced Deondre Blanding, 27, of Roslindale, to five years in prison for engaging in a shootout in a pot deal gone bad on a residential street in Randolph, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Starer in the Capitol: Probably not the mien she wore during counseling and gyn sessions back home.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Jacquelyn Starer, who once practiced at Jamaica Plain's Faulkner Hospital, to nine months in prison for not just storming into the Capitol back on Jan. 6, 2021 but for punching a DC cop in the head, cursing her and riling up other putschists in the Rotunda. Read more.
A man was stabbed in the face on Centre Street near Creighton Street in Jamaica Plain around 9:45 p.m.
The Asiatic sweetleaf is in full, hmm, not bloom, but full berry, perhaps?
On the morning of Aug. 18, a motorist who probably wasn't going at all fast, no sir, slammed into the long stone wall that runs along Pond Street between Prince and Eliot streets, across from the southern end of Jamaica Pond. Read more.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports on the simmering battles between the cemetery, which has been limiting public access in recent years and which is now chopping down noticeable numbers of trees, and nearby residents, who note the cemetery, like the less combative Mount Auburn in Cambridge, was started as a "rural garden cemetery" that was both a burial ground and public park. City Councilor Ben Weber is now involved.
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