Boston firefighters and police responded to Boomerangs, 716 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain around 7:30 p.m. after workers came into contact with a possibly dangerous substance dropped off as a donation. Read more.
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By adamg - 6/8/23 - 12:06 pm
The graffiti. Photo by Rev. Darrell Hamilton.
Somebody went through a fair amount of red spray paint to tag the First Baptist Church on Centre Street with anti-gay graffiti overnight.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden says: Read more.
By adamg - 5/31/23 - 11:56 pm
Boston Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge discusses safety issues on Centre Street.
Mayor Wu and City Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge told a packed auditorium at the Ohrenberger School tonight they are committed to making Centre Street safer through a reconfiguration that will include reducing the number of travel lanes on each side from two to one, with a new third lane in the center for left-turn lanes at intersections and for various "flex" uses, such as letting first responders speed to emergencies. Read more.
By adamg - 5/30/23 - 11:23 pm
A Boston health inspector today gave Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, permission to re-open after an inspection found no problems. Read more.
By Oliver Blake - 5/24/23 - 11:03 am
Expect more car-slowing speed humps, like this one on Evans Street in Mattapan.
City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/23 - 3:10 pm
Mayor Wu and her transportation chief today announced new measures to make Boston streets safer - including a revival of plans to turn Centre Street between the Holy Name Rotary and Spring Street in West Roxbury into a three-lane road with dedicated turn lanes, pedestrian islands and signal changes aimed at slowing down drivers and giving pedestrians better odds of being able to get from one side of the street to the other. Read more.
By adamg - 5/20/23 - 9:45 am
Update, 5/30: Restaurant allowed to re-open.
A city health inspector yesterday shut Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, for a variety of violations, including hot foods not being kept hot enough, cold items not being kept cold enough, employees not following basic sanitary practices and rodent droppings. Read more.
By adamg - 5/19/23 - 11:24 pm
Holland Properties said today it will soon file plans to convert the Poor Clare Nuns monastery next to the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain into apartments and community uses - and to construct a new condo building behind the monastery. Read more.
By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:43 pm
Marino's goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to add beer and wine to its offerings at its store at Centre and Park streets in West Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg - 4/29/23 - 12:02 pm
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for the guy they say held up the Cricket Wireless store, 306 Centre St. around 4:35 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/16/23 - 9:57 pm
Around 9:45 p.m. in the area of Centre and Bickford streets. Nobody hit.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 11:57 am
Boston Police report arresting an employee at Seed, 401 Centre St. in Hyde Square, for the Glock with a bullet in the chamber and two magazines loaded with a total of 35 bullets they say he brought to work yesterday - two days after a dispensary in Roslindale was robbed at gunpoint. Read more.
By adamg - 3/1/23 - 9:38 am
Jamaica Plain News reports a Haitian restaurant will soon replace 100% Delicias on Centre Street.
By adamg - 1/17/23 - 11:16 am
The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council's Public Service Committee says the neighborhood needs more trash receptacle along Centre Street and the north side of Jamaica Pond because of slobs who can't hold onto their trash until they find one or get home, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.
By adamg - 12/10/22 - 6:19 pm
A man was shot on Centre Street across from the Curley School, shortly before 5:30 p.m.
By adamg - 12/9/22 - 9:28 pm
West Roxbury's own Filene's Hole, as seen through tear in fence covering tonight.
Gary Martell, who tore down a 19th-century home and a 1960s-era pillbox of a bank branch on Centre Street to make way for a 21-unit condo building, today sued the BPDA for failing to schedule a vote on the project, which has now left West Roxbury's main shopping area with a large fenced-off pile of dirt. Read more.
By adamg - 12/5/22 - 9:46 pm
Scene as boy is being readied for transport by EMTs. Photo by Michelle Bylsma.
A little kid crossing Centre Street at Bellevue Street was hit by a car driver who apparently ran a red light there, around 3:25 p.m., according to witnesses - although the driver says he thinks he had a green light. Read more.
By adamg - 11/25/22 - 4:17 pm
The Family Dollar store, where Value Village used to be, at the corner of Centre and Park streets, is closing for good one of these days, which means West Roxburyans with a yen for discount stuff will have to drive into Roslindale, Hyde Park or Dedham for a Family Dollar. Owner Harris Krafchik put the 8,000-square foot building, built in 1930, up for lease this summer.
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