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…
Author: Gazette Staff
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…
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…
Man shot and wounded; suspect sought
A man was shot and wounded on the night of Aug. 3 at Tremont and St. Alphonsus Streets, and Boston police are seeking a male suspect caught on security camera video. The unidentified victim was shot multiple times and suffered…
Street Beat
Anti-Litter Winner
Hotel Opening
Caribbean fest to include local concert
Boston Carnival Village, the annual Caribbean festival, comes to Roxbury Crossing on Aug. 23 with the “Kings & Queens Show” at the Reggie Lewis Center. The show, starting at 6 p.m., features costumed performers and and many musicians, including Jamaican…