Pictured from left to right, top to bottom, Rev. Nicholas Homicil, Vivian Morris, Leugenia Allen, Triton Armstrong, Lyne Jacques, Martin Jacques, Brian Grant and John Henderson enjoy a sunny day at the Kennedy Community Garden in Mattapan.
Dana Forsythe 17.JUL.08
The story of Mattapan’s Kennedy Playground and community garden is really the community legacy shared by a few neighbors who have put in decades of work to tidy up land that isn’t even theirs.
Owned by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, (DCR) Kennedy Playground was stripped of its dangerous and rusty play equipment over 20 years ago by the neighboring community, wanting to redevelop the site. [read more]
On May 1, Guy Randolph was finally exonerated for a crime he didn’t commit. 17 years after he’d been arrested, charged and imprisoned for a 1990 attack on a Roslindale girl, he walked out of the courthouse an innocent man.
This week, Randolph represented by lawyer Sejal Patel, filed a lawsuit against the state for the decade he spent in MCI-Concord state prison. [read more]
Peter and Katie MacArthur stand in front of their award winning Caruso tomatoes at the Roslindale Tomato Fest.
Scott Wachtler 17.JUL.08
Last Saturday at Adams Park in Roslindale, there was only one local farmer selling tomatoes at the Roslindale Farmers Market annual Tomato Festival.
According to the United States Food and Drug Association, 1,065 people have become infected with Salmonella Saintpaul from eating tomatoes. The good news is that Massachusetts is on the FDA’s list of safe tomato producing states. [read more]
Immigrant workers protest Seafood Palace Restaurant in order to gain compensation for unpaid wages.
Scott Wachtler 17.JUL.08
Xue Qing Gao worked her last day at Kid’s Palace Learning Center back in March, after working only four weeks. Four months later, Gao and one of her co-workers still have not yet received all the money that is owed to them. [read more]
Arboretum Guide Make a difference as an Arnold Arboretum School Program Guide. We will train you to lead science programs in our landscape with elementary school groups. Contact Nancy Sableski, Manager of Children’s Education at 617-384-5239 by August 15th for fall training. For more information go to:http://arboretum.Harvard.edu/programs/fieldstudy [read more]
Boston’s Green Thumbs have until July 18 to register for Mayor Menino’s 2008 Garden Contest. To enter the Garden Contest, gardeners may pick up entry forms at local Comcast Customer Payment Centers, Boston City Hall, Boston Public Library branches, or the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 1010 Massachusetts Ave., Roxbury. [read more]
Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo is looking to add another tool to the Boston Police Department’s arsenal; fingerprint scanners.
Consalvo, at last Wednesday’s City Council meeting, called for a hearing to discuss installing $8,000 portable fingerprint scanners in police cruisers. [read more]
Finding graffiti in Allston and Brighton isn’t hard. According to a recent survey, the city of Boston’s Graffiti Busters spend more time in the Allston/Brighton area than anywhere else.
10.JUL.08
Dana Forsythe Scott Wachtler
Staff Reporters
City team targets graffiti taggers
Last Wednesday, city anti-graffiti crews were out in full force, targeting Boston’s top five tagged neighborhoods — Allston/Brighton, Dorchester, East Boston, Mission Hill and the Back Bay.
According to Mike Bartosiak the city’s Executive Assistant for Property Management Construction, the top neighborhoods were calculated by the number of complaints received for tags. Complaints were typically reported to Boston’s Graffiti Busters program. [read more]
Launched in October of 2007, ShotSpotter technology has been used by the Boston Police Department in numerous cases tracking down the city’s rash of shootings. The system’s sensors are installed in a six square mile area that is considered to be one of the city’s most violent, a region triangulated by Mattapan, Roxbury and Dorchester.
According to Boston Police, since its launch ShotSpotter has been instrumental in 11 arrests and played a role in taking seven firearms off the street. [read more]
