Month: July 2013

NU student charged in sex attacks

A Northeastern University student living in Mission Hill was charged with two violent sexual assaults June 15 that left two women with knife wounds and terrorized the neighborhood. Patrick Barry, 21, a Medford resident recently living at 878 Huntington Ave.,…

Parklet to be installed next month

Mission Hill’s parklet, one of Boston’s first four, will be installed in late August, according to Boston Transportation Department (BTD). A parklet is a small, semi-permanent public space that resembles a deck, created from two to three parking spaces. It…

NU files IMP and 1st building

Northeastern University (NU) filed its institutional master plan (IMP) and a project notification form (PNF) for the first project on its docket, an 180,000-square-foot Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB), with the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) last month. Meanwhile, state…

Markey wins U.S. Senate seat

Democratic U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (5th District) beat Republican Gabriel Gomez on June 25 to claim the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by John Kerry. Third-party candidate Richard Heos, who represents the Twelve Visions Party, came in a distant third.…