We welcome the hundreds of new residents, most of them students, who arrived in Mission Hill over the past week. For those of us who have lived or worked here for a year, a decade or a lifetime, there can…
Editorial: Fix the map, already
The Boston Redevelopment Authority for years used a deliberately incorrect map of Boston neighborhoods to analyze census data. Mission Hill doesn’t exist on the map, being lumped into Jamaica Plain, which itself is drawn with wacko borders. The map infected…
Editorial: Rethinking redistricting
The controversy about the City Council redistricting plan raises real concerns about minority representation and ham-handed incumbent protection. But it is just a symptom of underlying problems and our city leadership’s stubborn refusal to let the people rethink their form…
Letter: Thanks for supporting New Mission
New Mission High School has been a proud member of the Mission Hill community for the last 13 years. As you know, we have relocated to the Hyde Park Educational Complex, where we will continue to educate our students to…
Hill Happenings
God bless Father Robert Lennon, C.Ss.R., who celebrated 60 years as a Redemptorist priest Aug. 25 after the 12:10 Mass at Mission Church. Father Lennon has been at Mission Church since 2000. To commemorate Father Lennon’s remarkable life, parishioners gathered…
What’s Happening on Main Streets
By Richard Rouse/Special to the Gazette September brings not only a change in the weather, but a sense of rebirth with the return of students and others to Mission Hill. Like the swallows to Capistrano, U-Haul vans and overstuffed autos…