PONDSIDE—Police are seeking a suspect in two gunpoint robberies that happened two weeks ago at the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts at 24 Eliot St.—one inside the adult-education school and the other outdoors behind the building. The suspect…
Month: March 2013
2 bids placed for former church
HYDE SQ.—At least two bids were submitted late last month for the former Blessed Sacrament Church building at 360 Centre St. Local developers Jason Hutchinson and Andre White made a $1.4 million bid with plans for a small business/nonprofit complex,…
JPNC aims to improve ‘racial equity’
An ad hoc committee of the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) is seeking to address racial equity in the JPNC’s decisions. Tom Kieffer, executive director of the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, and fellow Ad Hoc Racial Justice Committee members…
Parents back BPS plan’s goal, want tweaks
Members of the community were critical of aspects of Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) proposed new student assignment plan, while acknowledging its innovative scientific approach and supporting its goal to improve education equity across the city. Community members spent an hour-and-a-half…
Basketball Star
S. Huntington ‘vision’ draft presented
By Ryan Deto Special to the Gazette S. HUNTINGTON—The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) presented a first draft of its “corridor vision” for S. Huntington Avenue to a generally accepting community on Feb. 27 at the Curley K-8 School at 493…
Budget Protest
Faulkner amends clinic closure plans
JAMAICA HILLS—Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital has altered its plan to close its in-patient detox unit in response to the state Department of Public Health’s (DPH) feedback following a public hearing last month. The dedicated unit will still close, but…
JP Music Fest Auction
Police seek T station robber
JACKSON SQ.—MBTA Transit Police are seeking an armed robber who stole a passenger’s iPad computer at gunpoint inside the Jackson Square T Station on March 9. The victim was robbed on the Orange Line platform around 12:50 p.m. The suspect…