By Rebeca Oliveira and John Ruch/Gazette Staff A City-sponsored one-day trial of an upcoming parklet on Tremont Street will not take place next month, but community members will be encouraged to claim parking spaces as temporary parks on their own…
Squares may be named for local leaders
Two Mission Hill intersections may be dedicated to longtime community leaders Carmen Pola and Maria Sánchez. The Parker and Gurney Streets crossing would become Carmen Pola Square, and Tremont and Gurney would become Maria Sánchez Square. The City’s Public Improvement…
Election results coming today
The state primary election was held yesterday, Sept. 6, after the Gazette deadline. Local results will be posted on the Gazette website today at missionhillgazette.com. The Suffolk County Clerk of Courts criminal division job was among the races that were…
Man charged in murder of BWH worker
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…
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,…