WFXT reports.
By adamg - 7/25/16 - 10:03 am
Five years ago, Rodrique Ngowi interviewed a worker and program director at the Boston Public Health Commission's farm on Long Island - beyond the food, the farm helped shelter residents learn work and life skills.
Why did Mayor Thomas M. Menino cross the road? To get to his new chicken farm.
By adamg - 7/24/16 - 11:01 pm
The Globe reports:
The decision to allow the b.good restaurant chain to take over Boston’s only city-owned farm - at no cost, and without seeking other proposals - has enraged its former managers, who view the new arrangement as a violation of the public trust and a waste of scarce urban community farmland.
Also: City no longer committed to re-opening the bridge.
By adamg - 7/22/15 - 11:48 am
Eight workers at the former Casa Isla DYS facility on Long Island face charges they used orange sandals to beat the naked buttocks of the teenaged residents - and that they forced some of the residents to join in the beatings.
Two of the workers, Jalise Andrade and Hermano Joseph were released on personal recognizance at their arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of charges of assault and battery and witness intimidation. Assistant Suffolk Could District Attorney Gloriann Moroney said six other workers await arraignment. Read more.
By adamg - 6/25/15 - 10:23 am
The Globe reports on Mayor Walsh's plans for "an ambitious multimillion-dollar plan to end homelessness among veterans this year and to end chronic homelessness by 2018."
By adamg - 3/26/15 - 7:57 am
City Councilors Tito Jackson (Roxbury) and Steve Murphy (at large) both want to look at alternatives to rebuilding what is now the rapidly disappearing bridge to the shelters and workshops on Long Island.
By adamg - 3/23/15 - 11:21 am
Brad Tatum videoed the contractor's explosion that took out three segments of the Long Island bridge around 11 a.m.
Earlier:
Virgil, quick come see, there goes the Robert E., no, wait, that's the Long Island bridge
By adamg - 2/25/15 - 8:21 am
Paul Nutting got to his office early this morning and got to see part of the Long Island bridge floating through Boston Harbor as crews work to
By adamg - 1/13/15 - 7:44 am
WBUR reports on city efforts to turn an old sign shop in Newmarket Square into a replacement for all the shelter space lost when Long Island was shut in October.
By adamg - 1/5/15 - 8:38 am
Walsh Construction Co. of Chicago today begins a four-month contract to tear down the condemned Long Island bridge. The city shut the bridge in October as unsafe.
Even as Walsh starts its $20.5-million demo, the city has still to figure out how to replace the homeless and substance-abuse treatment programs that were based on the island. The Boston Public Health Commission holds a hearing in Mattapan tomorrow to discuss its plans to use its Mattapan campus to replace some of the beds lost with the bridge closure.
By adamg - 12/15/14 - 7:43 am
With Long Island shut for the next X years, the plans for Frontage Road abandoned in favor of a soccer stadium or something and the abandoned Radius Hospital off the table, Mayor Walsh is promising he'll announce a new location for a quasi-permanent place for homeless programs this week.
By adamg - 12/7/14 - 12:39 pm
New England Conservatory students will play in a concert on Saturday to benefit the Friends of Boston’s Homeless and The Women's Lunch Place and the people displaced from programs o
By adamg - 12/5/14 - 4:36 pm
UPDATE: Roxbury Here has a much more detailed report on the Roxbury meeting.
By adamg - 12/3/14 - 1:27 pm
City officials will meet with residents tomorrow evening to discuss their plans for the Radius Specialty Hospital on Townsend Street.
By adamg - 11/25/14 - 11:21 am
UPDATE, 11:42 a.m. Cab is out of the sand. Nothing found leaking into the water.
The truck slipped off tracks onto the bard around 11 a.m. and its cab's tires wound up in sand by the island's dock.
By adamg - 11/12/14 - 11:54 pm
Homeless people, advocates, recovering addicts and parents of addicts still on the streets all said the city needs to work faster to replace the treatment programs and shelter beds lost when Long Island shut on just four hours notice on Oct.
By adamg - 11/12/14 - 10:11 am
The Globe reports city officials expect to discuss a proposal for the land - across from the
By adamg - 10/27/14 - 3:13 pm
Crews are working seven days a week to prepare two dormant public-health buildings in Mattapan for long-term use by halfway programs, while the city looks to rent or buy additional space - including possibly in the closed Radius hospital in Roxbury - fo
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