A Sumner School staff member suffered minor injuries this afternoon while helping students cross Cummins Highway in Roslindale Square near the former Washington Irving Middle School that is now the Sumner's upper school, according to e-mail sent to parents by school Principal Meghan Welch. Read more.
Two awoken citizens filed complaints early this morning about loud kids playing hoops at the Sumner School on Basile Street in Roslindale, and by morning they mean through at least 3:15 a.m. Read more.
Parents and neighbors descended on the Sumner School in Roslindale today to help set up a temporary play set to replace the one burned in an arson fire this past May, until a more permanent playground can be built. Read more.
Fire Commissioner Joe Finn and Sumner kids get ready to do a cheer.
BPS officials promised students at the Sumner School in Roslindale today that their arson-ravaged playground would be rebuilt in time for the opening of school in September.
At a ceremony at which kids thanked the firefighters of Ladder 16 and Engine 53 in Roslindale for keeping the fire from spreading, officials praised the kids for their reaction to the fire - they raised $277.45 in a lemon-aid sale - and parents and local businesses, who have so far kicked in more than $60,000. Read more.
Updated with info that one of the suspects is not a kid.
Boston Police report arresting a 23-year-old man and two teens on arson charges for a May 23 fire that destroyed most of the playground equipment at the Sumner School on Basile Street in Roslindale. Read more.
Parents of students at Roslindale's Sumner School and people who work there have started a fundraiser to replace the playground equipment that somebody torched on Monday. Read more.
— Kasey Davis Appleman (@KaseyAppleman) May 24, 2016
UPDATE: The Boston Fire Department reports somebody set the Sumner School playground on fire. Read more.
Melted plastic at playground. Photo by Chris Kollett.
Yesterday afternoon at the Sumner School on Basile Street. In the Keep Roslindale Quirky Facebook group, Chris Kollett reports the damage appears limited to part of the platform for one slide.
Last August:
Somebody set a playground on fire in West Roxbury.
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