A Dorchester man is charged with murder in the Aug. 15 stabbing death of a Brigham and Women’s Hospital employee in Roxbury. Rashad Lesley-Barnes, a longtime patient transportation worker at the hospital, was killed by a fellow MBTA bus passenger…
Month: September 2012
Gardens, students remain Art Park issues
The City’s effort to craft request for proposal guidelines for the City-owned land between Parker and Terrace streets continues. How to prevent college students from living at the site and how the community gardens would be managed were two of…
Group registers student voters
A volunteer effort called Mission: The Hill will canvass Mission Hill’s new young residents on Sept. 1, student move-in day, to see if they want to register to vote at their new addresses. The effort is the brainchild of Dorothy Scheeline,…
Time to enter MH Road Race
Registration is now open for the annual Mission Hill Road Race slated for Oct. 20. The 5K footrace, one of the neighborhood’s biggest events, benefits Kevin W. Fitzgerald Park on St. Alphonsus Street, where the race begins. For registration info,…
Adult ELL program defunded
La Alianza Hispana, a nonprofit based in Roxbury that has a center in Mission Hill, is on the brink of closing its English Language Learning program following the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (DESE) decision to cut the…
Health Team
Student Welcome Guide: A Students’ Guide to Mission Hill
The following is some basic information for students who recently moved into Mission Hill. General Boston info Boston does not have a non-emergency police number. Call 911 for emergency and non-emergency police, fire and rescue. Get renter’s insurance. It might…
Student Welcome Guide: Welcome to…Parker Hill?
A Guide to Mission Hill Place Names Welcome to the neighborhood! You just moved to Mission Hill—but did you know you’re actually on Parker Hill? You’ve probably already noticed the spires of Mission Church—which technically isn’t called that, either. And…
Student Welcome Guide: Mission Name
A Brief History of S. Huntington
How the Institutions Came to Town S. HUNTINGTON—S. Huntington Avenue, after nearly a century of heavy institutional use, is readying for fast changes: two 200-unit luxury apartment buildings are under consideration by the City, and a new boutique hotel just…