The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the new owner of the old Green Gardens packie and market on West Milton Street in Hyde Park change the store's name to Stop & Shots Liquors & Deli. Read more.
Boston Police and Boston EMS responded to River and Arlington streets in Hyde Park after a crash shortly before 7:20 p.m. between a scooter and an SUV. The scooter driver was transported to a Boston trauma center with life-threatening injuries. Read more.
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports a water-main break in Brookline on Wednesday is continuing to affect water pressure and color in some areas "in the southern parts of Boston." Read more.
A Massachusetts Land Court judge this week agreed to let the state Attorney General's office get into the legal scrum over the future of a former library on Hamilton Street in Hyde Park's Readville neighborhood that is owned by the church next door - which wants to raze it to build apartments. Read more.
The City Council agreed today to look into the environmental and safety issues related to plans for at least two industrial-sized electricity-storage plants, one on the aptly named Electric Avenue in Brighton, the other on a wooded hill behind the Stop & Shop mall on American Legion Highway on the Roslindale/Hyde Park meet that was most recently in the news for being the summer home of Moodini the Steer. Read more.
Dorchester Reporter publishers Bill and Linda Dorcena Forry (she was the first Haitian-American to be elected a Massachusetts state senator) state the obvious in a city with a large Haitian community.
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old on charges they showed a gun to try to make a third teen give up his scooter at the Camp Meigs playground in Hyde Park Friday night. Read more.
Boston Police report the arrest of Edwin Santos, 22, on charges he was the guy ripping off gold chains off the necks of older people he would follow home from train or bus stops in several neighborhoods. Read more.
When Boston Animal Care and Control said last week they have found Moodini the Roslindale Steer, they said he was out back of the Walgreens off American Legion Highway near Crane Ledge, the wooded hill a Texas developer wants to blast to kingdom come to put in an apartment complex.
But one nearby resident says he has proof Moodini didn't just hoof it to the top of the hill - he spent considerable time on it, and he has proof in the form of photos of lots and lots of cow patties: Read more.
Boston Police are investigating a robbery at 85 Maple St. in Hyde Park, near the Fairmount train station, around 4:30 p.m. Read more.
Photo by Butternugz, who says this wasn't the worst of the fire.
Roving UHub photographer Butternugz found himself slowed to a crawl heading west on 93 south (128 north for you grizzled Boston-area drivers) in Canton shortly before 2:30 p.m. due to a New England Sealcoating truck busy going up in flames on 93 north (the former 128 south), just past the I-95 interchange: 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.
James Carnes, 61, of Canton, was sentenced this week to six months of home confinement, followed by 18 months of probation for his participation in an overtime-fraud scheme at the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park that netted him a little over $20,000 in unearned pay over 2 1/2 years, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A federal judge this week sentenced former Boston Police officer to six months in prison for her role in the overtime scandal at the BPD evidence warehouse in Hyde Park. Read more.
A federal judge this week sentenced a former sergeant at the Boston Police evidence warehouse to six months of home confinement and nearly $31,000 in restitution and fines for the overtime pay he got for hours he didn't work over a three-year period, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report that officers who pulled over a speeding car whose driver didn't have current registration on Wood Avenue near Oakwood Street around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.
The MBTA board today approved a $54-million plan to replace the diesel-powered trains on the Fairmount Line with more climate-friendly battery-operated cars within four years, which could mean almost subway-like train frequency - and some relief for Readville residents who live near the yard where diesels now loudly vibrate, hum - and have their horns blared - into the early morning hours. Read more.
Photo by Russell Holman.
Matt Shuman forwarded photos from Russell Holman, who was driving down Neponset Valley Parkway near Westinghouse Plaza in Hyde Park Friday afternoon when he couldn't help but notice a Lamborghini fully engulfed in flames. Read more.
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