The Boston Fire Department shows off the newly renovated Engine 51 in Oak Square.
Oak Square
A fire in a fourth-floor bedroom at 501 Washington St. displaced six people but caused no injuries, the Boston Fire Department reports. The fire was called in around 3:20 p.m.
Filed on Citizens Connect today from Washington St:
This wonderful clock in Oak Square is running but has been displaying the incorrect time for weeks. Can you please fix it.
Let's hope nobody is relying on it get to work.
And that includes buses and ambulances, Nathan Spencer reports. He adds this is the second one in two years there.
They'll be setting up loudspeakers so people outside can hear what BPL President Amy Ryan has to say at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the still officially doomed Faneuil branch. Last night, Ryan told supporters of the Dorchester Lower Mills branch, also slated for a spring shutdown, that library officials would consider keeping branches open if money can be found.
But what if the neighborhoods say no? Tough. BPL officials hold "working sessions" on how to replace the some of the services now provided by the doomed branches tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Dorchester Lower Mills branch and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Faneuil branch in Oak Square.
Sessions are planned for next month at Orient Heights and Washington Village (South Boston).
More.
A Japanese restaurant proposed for 529 Washington St. goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Oct. 20.
The license proposal for 350-square-foot Hoshi Japanese Restaurant calls for hours of 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven days a week.
Where a 12-inch water main under Washington Street up and burst itself this morning, creating a sinkhole and disrupting the commute for Oak Square commuters as the city shut the street and diverted MBTA buses - but without telling any of the repair crews what to tell soggy bus riders where their buses went. The Globe reports the official BWSC response: "It's just one of those sinkholes." La di da.
The Brighton-based sneaker company says that if the Presentation School Foundation raises $100,000 by June 11, it'll kick in $200,000.
Earlier this month, the foundation said it needed to raise $275,000 by mid-June to begin renovation and construction at the Oak Square site, last used as a parochial school six years ago. Because of the timing of an overall $4.5-million loan deal, the foundation says if it can't raise the money, it will have to look at selling off the building.
The city grant, arranged by Mayor Menino and City Councilor Mark Ciommo, brings supporters of the proposed conversion of the old Presentation School into a multi-use community center oh so close to actual construction. Presentation School Foundation President Tom O'Brien told a packed room at the Y tonight that the foundation is now only $275,000 away from being able to start renovation and construction.
Supporters of the Faneuil BPL branch didn't let rain stop their candlelight vigil in Oak Square this afternoon - that's what umbrellas are for. Residents, city councilors Mark Ciommo, Ayanna Pressley and Felix Arroyo, state Reps Kevin Honan and Michael Moran all vowed to reverse today's vote by BPL trustees to shut Faneuil and three other branches.
Ciommo and Moran, both strong Menino supporters, said they were disappointed by the mayor's role in shutting the branches; Moran said he has never been so disappointed in the mayor. Moran said the issue is not money, but that Menino and BPL President Amy Ryan just don't like small branches. And he had some choice words for library Trustee Paul LaCamera for criticizing him and other legislators for not showing up this morning at a pre-ordained vote on closings:
Supporters of the Faneuil BPL branch in Oak Square plan to hold a protest march and candlelight vigil in front of the branch tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.
Eric Mauro reports:
I was out walking my dog around 1:30 a.m. and we saw a coyote trotting through Oak Square last night... garbage night.... It went in front of the liquor store and then across the square, and then over to the library and up Bigelow.
Boston Police report finding a woman, 56, dead of multiple stab wounds at 73 Nonantum St. around 2:30 p.m. today.
Luis A. Marquez, 26, of Brighton, who was still at the scene when police arrived, was arrested. He will be arraigned on a charge of murder tomorrow in Brighton District Court. Police say Marquez and the victim knew each other.
The Tab has the details on the Sunday double shootings at 499 Washington St. in Oak Square. Two teens were shot around 1 a.m. - both are expected to recover - three men sought, including one who took a shot at a witness from an MBTA bus shelter.
Boston Police aren't sure. They report that around 4 p.m. today at 18 Tremont St. in Oak Square, two witnesses:
... reported that they observed three individuals wearing sweaters, camouflaged clothing and ski masks drag a white male off the sidewalk and push him into van. The witnesses alternatively described the suspects’ vehicle as a dark colored van (possibly blue or gray) or SUV and gave a partial registration # of 3528 or a variation thereof belonging to a Virginia license plate ...
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