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…