Photo by Transit PD.
Transit Police report arresting the 29-year-old driver of a Toyota they say turned onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Brigham Circle around 3 a.m. and then didn't get very far and remained on scene so that officers could determine enough signs of intoxication to warrant an OUI arrest.
This was a week after another Toyota driver allegedly did the same basic thing on the Green Line at Coolidge Corner.
Bird-infused rendering by JGE Architecture and Design.
A developer has filed plans for a five-story, 38-unit apartment building at 36 Parker Hill Ave., at Hillside Street on Mission Hill. Read more.
Boston Building Resources will celebrate National Reuse Day on Saturday, October 19, with a free community event from 11:00 to 2:00 promoting the craft and creativity of reuse in all its forms. Eliminating needless waste through reuse is a straightforward, but often overlooked, way to live more sustainably.
The celebration will take place at Boston Building Resources, 100 Terrace Street, Roxbury Crossing. Free food will be available, and live music will be provided by the Emily Grogan Band.
The state Ethics Commission yesterday announced that former Tobin School Principal Natasha Halfkenny and Assistant Principal Coreen Miranda had both paid $4,000 fines for taking their sons to a performance of "Hamilton" downtown using some of the tickets a local charity had donated to the school for its students and their chaperones last year. 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.
Rendering by JGE Architecture and Design.
A trio of developers awarded a series of unused lots owned by the city between Terrace and Parker streets on Mission Hill have filed plans for a four-story condo building with retail space on the ground floor and a community garden out back along Parker Street, next to an "urban wild" that will be formally turned into a city park. Read more.
Three Boston city councilors yesterday called for a hearing to ask local postal officials why mail service has plummeted like a rock, in particular on Mission Hill in particular, but also across the city. Read more.
Thank goodness for e-mail. A business owner on Hillside Street on Mission Hill just sent us the following note about the local mail catastrophe, full of mail piling up in a post office in heap after growing heap: Read more.
Rendering of proposed building by Embarc.
Monty Gold, a Brookline landlord who has gone to court to try to stop apartment buildings from going up near buildings he owns in Jamaica Plain and Salem, yesterday sued to try to block a six-story apartment building from going up at St. Alphonsus Street and Tremont Street in Mission Hill, in between two buildings he owns. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Prasiddha Baruwal, 23, of Everett, on charges he broke into the Squealing Pig and set it on fire late Tuesday. Read more.
WFXT talks to a person who happened to be walking by the Squealing Pig on Smith Street around midnight and spotted a man inside, with the fire just starting.
Heat from the fire melted street light and signs. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the Squealing Pig, 134 Smith St. on Mission Hill, for what turned into a two-alarm fire around midnight.
The department reported no injuries from the fire, which came a little more than 24 hours after the Jacob Wirth building on Stuart Street burned in a four-alarm fire.
T spreading the news at Park, photo by a roving UHub photographer.
Update, 8:21 a.m.: T reports service back to normal
The MBTA reports the Green Line is dead between Copley and Government Center because of a switch problem at Arlington. Take the Orange Line instead, or the 39 bus should your travel plans include Huntington Avenue, they say.
Doused trash in basement. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters evacuated the residents of some 300 apartments at 75 St. Alphonsus St., Mission Hill, after a basement trash fire send smoke all the way up to the top floors through a trash chute, around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Justin Jaleel Caterson is no stranger to the local court system - or to one of the two judges that are now overseeing the cases against him for an alleged two-month rampage in which he went around three Boston neighborhoods smashing car windows. Read more.
A Jamaica Plain man went on a weeks-long car-smashing rampage through Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, using a tool designed to break car windows and packing some brass knuckles in case anybody tried to get in his way, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon reports on the ruling involving the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center on Fisher Avenue, whose current owners want to close it by July 1.
A Dorchester man faces federal drug charges after, investigators say, he used a scooter to ferry 30,000 fentanyl pills and more than four pounds of other narcotics from his Dorchester apartment to a Mission Hill parking lot on Friday. Read more.
How deep is the pothole at Leon and Ruggles street? It's so deep one irate citizen filed a 311 complaint that references a late-20th-century philosopher: Read more.
City councilors yesterday denounced management at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center, 120 Fisher Ave. on Mission Hill, for the way it's planning to close by July 1, frightening residents and delaying or bouncing employee paychecks. Read more.
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