The other night, state Rep. Sam Montaño (D-15th Suffolk) hosted a meeting at English High School to talk about how to consider Boston Medical Center's plans to turn Shattuck Hospital into a large recovery center possibly featuring several hundred housing units in addition to a rebuilt hospital building. Read more.
So many pumpkins, but here's some time to get rid of them in a more environmentally friendly way: The city of Boston Zero Waste team, Boston Green Academy, the South Street Youth Center and Mothers Out Front will hold a pumpkin-smashing and composting event at the English High School track, 144 McBride St. in Jamaica Plain, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. this Saturday. Read more.
WFXT reports the woman managed to get herself enrolled at Burke, Brighton and English high schools, using multiple pseudonyms. Motive unknown at this point, but school officials say she didn't appear to harm any students or staff; still BPD is now on the case.
A federal judge today sentenced Shaun "Rev" Harrison to ten years in federal prison for helping to run a local chapter of the Latin Kings and for shooting an English High School student point blank in the back of the head in 2015. Read more.
Christy spotted this coyote at English High School around 6:40 this morning; last saw him trotting down Williams Street.
Shaun Harrison, currently in state prison for shooting an English High student in the back of the head in 2015, today agreed to plead guilty to federal RICO violations for his role as a leader of a Latin Kings gang based in Dorchester. Read more.
BPS not to blame for what Harrison, at the back of this line of people, would do moments later.
A federal judge today dismissed a former English High School student's suit against BPS for the injuries he suffered when a counselor at the school shot him in the back of the head and left him for dead on Magazine Street in Newmarket Square in 2015, saying that BPS did nothing that would have led to the attempted murder. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports on the anniversary next month of the nation's oldest public high school.
WFXT reports on the situation at English High School in Jamaica Plain and the O'Bryant School and Madison Park, next to each other in Roxbury. The schools were put in "safe" mode," in which students and teachers try to go on with their days normally even as all external doors are locked to keep people out; the schools are now back to regular mode.
Luis Rodriguez, who now lives in Framingham, is suing Boston Public Schools and current Cedar Junction inmate Shaun Harrison over the way Harrison shot Rodriguez and left him to die out of fear the then English High School student would reveal Harrison's pot-dealing operation at the school. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Shaun Harrison to 23 to 26 years in state prison after his conviction yesterday for trying to murder a teen who no longer wanted to sell marijuana for him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
If you stand in just the right spot in the English High School lobby, it sure looks like the astronaut is giving the classical warrior some bunny ears.
At a forum tonight, Mayor Marty Walsh said he would spend the next four years building on what he said were the successes of his first term, while challenger and City Councilor Tito Jackson said he would take more aggressive steps to make Boston a better place. Read more.
Brighton High School and Excel High School in South Boston have joined English High School on a list of schools performing badly enough on state standardized tests to warrant warnings the state could consider taking them over if BPS doesn't do enough to turn them around. Read more.
Shaun Harrison, a former counselor at English High School had been scheduled to go on trial Oct. 17 on charges he shot a student in the head for not selling enough of Harrison's marijuana.
Clay Harper watched the sun go down over English High in Jamaica Plain today.
More photos of the evening's sky activity: Read more.
The Globe takes a look at rising test scores and a new sense of optimism at the long beleaguered school.
Shaun Harrison, 55, a minister and counselor in Boston schools, was ordered held in lieu of $400,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, two counts of unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony ... Read more.
WBUR reports on a BPS report that found school officials followed their own protocols for disciplining Shaun Harrison before he allegedly shot a student selling pot for him, but that that may not have been enough.
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