The City has presented a rough design of the city-owned land between Parker and Terrace streets that places houses where community gardens and the Art Park currently are. The sketch received mixed reviews from the public at a recent community…
9-unit condo plan questioned
Jan Steenbrugge, owner of a lot at the corner of Parker and Alleghany Streets, is seeking 13 zoning code variances from the City zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) to build a nine-unit condominium building. The plan would separate a parking…
Community Alliance has a new leader
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…
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…