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Complaint regarding the Room to Grow Recovery Center, 5th floor, St. Francis House, 39 Boylston St, Boston MA 02116. Under the director in place for the past three or so years, I have truly witnessed this center go downhill. People are dying. People are relapsing under this new director — including friends of mine with twenty plus years in recovery. The program no longer offers meaningful recovery programming; activities have been taken away, and sessions feel compulsory, held in a front room under newly installed security cameras. Members are kicked out of our own center for Friday graduations held for another floor in the building — if it is advertised that we are open, members should not be kicked out, especially in the winter months. Their posted hours of operation are false or inaccurate: every time you turn around, the center is closed, with only verbal notice if you were lucky enough to be there when it was announced. Even lunch timing is unpredictable — sometimes you have five minutes to eat, sometimes thirty. I am a former 2.5-year St. Francis House resident in recovery since 2022. I sought to serve on the center's advisory board and was instead barred based on misinformation — I was accused of supposedly making racially insensitive comments, which is untrue. During that bar I could have relapsed, and my primary care physician is in this building, so it disrupted my healthcare too. Their grievance policy was, with all due respect, a joke. All my other complaints have come from a place of passion; this complaint comes from a place of pain. Please look into the mismanagement of funds and conditions at this program. Now that there is more staffing, I hope the center is going in a better direction. I have also raised this with the Mayor's office and am filing with the MA Bureau of Substance Addiction Services. — Chiya Souto, 602-783-6719, msqueenchiyas@gmail.com

Service Request Type: Community Commendation / Public Safety Notice Location: Columbia Road & Dudley Street (Uphams Corner, Dorchester) Target Agency: Massachusetts State Police - Station H-6 (South Boston Barracks) On behalf of the residents of the Uphams Corner neighborhood, this entry serves as a formal public acknowledgment of the highly successful traffic enforcement results executed by the Massachusetts State Police this morning. The proactive deployment of troopers conducting radar stops and managing commuter bottlenecks on Columbia Road and Dudley Street has had an immensely positive effect on our special population. These critical life-saving actions actively safeguard vulnerable groups—including seniors, students, and the physically or visually challenged—from corridor transit dangers. We strongly encourage the State Police to maintain these vital early morning patrols between 5:00 AM and 6:00 AM to ensure continuous neighborhood protection. This local service perfectly reflects the mandate stated by State Police Commander Colonel Geoffrey Noble: "The Massachusetts State Police will deliver excellent police services, build and maintain public trust, and enforce the law with fairness, compassion, equity, transparency, and accountability."

Vehicle parked ALL Night in emergency vehicle access zone corner of emmons and chelsea streets..please ticket.