The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday upheld Shaquille Brown's conviction for murdering Christopher Austin on Ashmont Street in 2017.

The ruling means Brown will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Presented by the Franklin Park Coalition, the summer concert series at Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park will take place every Tuesday beginning July 12 and running through Aug. 16.

The first show will feature Richie Rich & 24-Karat Funk, and throughout the summer, musical guests including The MastaDonis Project, Donna Nixon, Roots Alley Collective and Dion Knibb, E-Water Band, and Angelena Hightower and the Unit will grace the Playhouse stage..

Hundreds gathered at Walker Playground, also called Norfolk Park, in Mattapan on Thursday, June 30, to celebrate the official opening of the complete renovation of the park and the basketball courts. The renovations have been in the works and on the drawing board since 2018, but the official end of construction was celebrated Thursday during Mayor Michelle Wu’s Mattapan Coffee Hour. The Park renovations included a renovated play area, a splash pad, new shade shelter, a walking loop, and renovations to the playing field.

Just days before the official ribbon-cutting on June 28 for the 100 percent affordable Cote Village apartment community in Mattapan, residents, developers, and community leaders discovered graffiti on the side of a street-level balcony on Cummins Highway that read: “Nu-style apartments, gentrification to follow, Issa (It’s a) playbook move.”

To those involved in the development of the Village, the graffiti’s message was the opposite of what elected officials and community leaders have tried to build there for more than a decade.

I recently received a notification from City Hall on an Article 85 Demolition Delay Application filed for the takedown of the house at 31 Savin Hill Avenue. Demolitions are subject to a delay to determine if a building is “historically significant.” If so, there will be a hearing to determine if the building deserves landmark status, which can make it more difficult to demolish.