Jessica Casey, a Canadian native who works for the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, was elected the president of the Community Alliance of Mission Hill (CAMH) during a May 16 meeting. “I really am going to bring…
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Local bus routes set to undergo changes
Plans to improve the Route 39 bus have been delayed yet again until the fall, while changes to the Route 66 bus will begin in 2013. The Route 39 renovation plan, which was first proposed in 2008, includes the elimination…
Knife attacker gets year in jail
A Mission Hill woman will be jailed for one year for slashing a neighbor with a kitchen knife in a dispute over a parking space. Carmen Andino, 40, was sentenced last month to two-and-a-half years in a house of corrections…
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Senior housing project nets City funds
An affordable senior housing project planned for Roxbury Crossing has been awarded $279,000, but still needs other funds before construction can begin. The Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) board agreed to commit up to $279,386 in Housing Linkage funds for the…
Brigham Green project breaks ground
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) planned to break ground on a new 400-space underground parking garage and surface park at Brigham Circle on May 30, after the Gazette’s deadline. The Brigham Green project will create an underground 400-car parking garage…
Local pastor writes book about church-sharing
Lorraine Cleaves Anderson, a 20-year resident of Mission Hill, is the pastor of the International Community Church in Allston, an institution that shares its space with seven other churches. Anderson is so smitten with church-sharing she has written a book…
Mother of Year crowned
Lucia Rocha Laboy was crowned the “mother of the year” at the annual Mother’s Day Celebration at Mission Church on May 19. Rocha Laboy, a resident of the Mission Main housing development, is well-known as a “babysitter for the community,”…
Wheelchair ‘power soccer’ comes to Tobin
Fourteen people in wheelchairs got a chance to score some goals during the U.S. Power Soccer Association’s soccer clinic at the Tobin Community Center on May 12. Power soccer involves the use of electric wheelchairs outfitted with bumpers to direct…
Apartment project faces delay, opposition
S. HUNTINGTON—Eleven out of 13 members of the city-appointed Impact Advisory Group (IAG) for the proposed apartment building at 161 S. Huntington Ave. have signed a letter opposing the project. The site of the project, while in Jamaica Plain, abuts…