Tag: Roxbury
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B-2 survey: Residents mainly worry about drugs, homelessness, and pedestrian safety
Roxbury and Dorchester residents who live in the B-2 police district are concerned about open drug use, the homeless, traffic and pedestrian safety, and enforcement of scooter and moped laws. That’s according to a recent public safety survey conducted by the Boston Police Department’s B-2…
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Free tours bring history to life inside North Burying Ground
Rick Fraser, one of the participants, is touching the patterns on a tombstone. Wind swept over the autumn foliage and centuries-old gravestones at the North Burying Ground in Uphams Corner on Sat., Oct. 17 as visitors got a rare glimpse…
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Franklin Cummings Tech begins a new chapter in Roxbury
Steven Thomas, a second-year student at Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Roxbury, had an atypical journey to college. At 29 years old, he arrived at the private tech and trades school to build a more stable life for himself…
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How a traveling bus museum is teaching Boston to heal through history
Tomas Gonzalez was 2 years old the night the firebombs hit. In the winter of 1973, he was among hundreds of Puerto Rican families in South Boston, according to Gonzalez. His mother said riots and violence were common against Puerto…
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Cruz Development’s One Waverly project secures state funding
With walls sprayed with graffiti and trash lining the street nearby, a dilapidated structure sits on 1 Waverly St. in Roxbury. What had once been a movie theater from the 1940s through the 1970s was converted into a Church of…
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BPD officer charged with manslaughter in shooting death of Dorchester man last week
A Boston police officer charged with manslaughter after he shot and killed a Dorchester man suspected in an apparent carjacking in Roxbury last week was released on personal recognizance after his arraignment Thursday. The officer, Nicholas O’Malley, 33, of West…
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ICE agents spotted in Jamaica Plain, other neighborhoods
Immigrant and Customs Enforcement agents were allegedly spotted in Forest Hills recently, and one person was “pulled off the street” in Roslindale Square, according to City Councilor Benjamin Weber, who spoke at the Boston Police Department’s District E-13 community meeting…