Boston Building Resources will celebrate National Reuse Day on Saturday, October 19, with a free community event from 11:00 to 2:00 promoting the craft and creativity of reuse in all its forms. Eliminating needless waste through reuse is a straightforward, but often overlooked, way to live more sustainably.

The celebration will take place at Boston Building Resources, 100 Terrace Street, Roxbury Crossing. Free food will be available, and live music will be provided by the Emily Grogan Band.

Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.

The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.

A trio of developers awarded a series of unused lots owned by the city between Terrace and Parker streets on Mission Hill have filed plans for a four-story condo building with retail space on the ground floor and a community garden out back along Parker Street, next to an "urban wild" that will be formally turned into a city park. Read more.

Thank goodness for e-mail. A business owner on Hillside Street on Mission Hill just sent us the following note about the local mail catastrophe, full of mail piling up in a post office in heap after growing heap: Read more.

Boston Police report arresting Prasiddha Baruwal, 23, of Everett, on charges he broke into the Squealing Pig and set it on fire late Tuesday. Read more.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to the Squealing Pig, 134 Smith St. on Mission Hill, for what turned into a two-alarm fire around midnight.

The department reported no injuries from the fire, which came a little more than 24 hours after the Jacob Wirth building on Stuart Street burned in a four-alarm fire.

Boston firefighters evacuated the residents of some 300 apartments at 75 St. Alphonsus St., Mission Hill, after a basement trash fire send smoke all the way up to the top floors through a trash chute, around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.

A Jamaica Plain man went on a weeks-long car-smashing rampage through Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, using a tool designed to break car windows and packing some brass knuckles in case anybody tried to get in his way, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. Read more.

A Dorchester man faces federal drug charges after, investigators say, he used a scooter to ferry 30,000 fentanyl pills and more than four pounds of other narcotics from his Dorchester apartment to a Mission Hill parking lot on Friday. Read more.

City councilors yesterday denounced management at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center, 120 Fisher Ave. on Mission Hill, for the way it's planning to close by July 1, frightening residents and delaying or bouncing employee paychecks. Read more.