Brighton News

Since its purchase in 2004, St. John's Seminary has patiently waited atop its Brighton hill.

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Harvard claims that "43,950 square feet of the building programming will be accessible to the general public." According to Harvard, the components of the 43,950 are: Each one of these needs to be analyzed to consider how public it really might be.

In late September the Scotland Yard Gospel Choir flipped their van on I-65 in Indiana en route to a festival gig in Cincinnati.

A Brighton man who acknowledged he kissed a 16-year-old without her consent near St.

Boston police say a fight broke out at 2:15 a.m. in front of the Store 24 located at the corner of Brighton and Harvard avenues, an area dense with bars and late-night haunts that cater to a heavy-drinking college crowd.

On Sunday, November 8, 2009, at approximately 2:16am, a Boston Police Officer, assigned out of Area D-14 , was patrolling in the area of Brighton Avenue at Harvard Avenue when his attention was drawn to several people in the area.

T he motor vehicle homicide charge lodged against a former WEEI sports flash guy who struck and killed a Cambridge teenager while driving drunk last November has been dismissed.

Local news, events, and regional issues that affect the quality of life for those of us living or working in Allston and Brighton, Massachusetts ABNNF meets Thursday All are welcome to join the ABNNF at 6:00 on Thursday to discuss the Charlesview relocation and Holton Street Corridor redevelopment.

CBS The abrupt closing Sunday of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" after only nine performances has cast a brief, uneasy shadow over Broadway's fall season, ironically one of the busiest in years.

Harvard Ave. and Commonwealth Ave. Allston United States 42A 21' 0.9252" N , 71A 7' 51.4236" W Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports Kelly's Roast Beef wants to turn the old Marty's Liquors into a roast-beef emporium open until 2 a.m. - just down Harvard Ave.

Trick-or-treat at local businesses that display one of the flyers in their windows.

Local news, events, and regional issues that affect the quality of life for those of us living or working in Allston and Brighton, Massachusetts Waiting for a train in A/B Seems some at City Hall and the State House like the idea of Diesel Multiple Unit trains that could connect A/B with downtown more effectively than commuter rail trains, but they ...

The business trade groups of Allston-Brighton -- Allston Board of Trade, Brighton Board of Trade, Allston Village Main Streets, and Brighton Main Streets -- are sponsoring a candidates forum for the District 9 City Councilor race.

Commonwealth Ave. and Washington St. Brighton United States 42A 20' 37.6476" N , 71A 8' 34.6488" W A trolley and a car failed to occupy the same space at Comm.

There are overnight resident spots in several locations on Beacon St. These were formerly metered spots.

Why are residents of Allston and Brighton, including residents of Charlesview, becoming more public and visible to voice our concerns with Harvard's expansion, the Harvard-Charlesview land swap, and years of neglect at Charlesview? It's because over the past several years the Menino Administration has repeatedly made serious errors that have harmed ...

Local news, events, and regional issues that affect the quality of life for those of us living or working in Allston and Brighton, Massachusetts Tree cutting at Smith Field Lots of trees along the WBZ side of Smith Field are being cut down.

Local news, events, and regional issues that affect the quality of life for those of us living or working in Allston and Brighton, Massachusetts HUD's Charlesview memo When talking about a diverse, new Charlesview with housing for people at all levels of the income spectrum, one rebuttal that we have heard is that "HUD won't allow" more work-force ...

Walter Reyes-Fabian, 25, was arraigned yesterday on charges he grabbed a woman by the neck, then started dragging her down the street for no apparent reason on the morning of Oct.