While risk remains low, the Boston Public Health Commission is encouraging residents to take precautions, after West Nile Virus was recently detected in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, Roxbury, and West Roxbury.
With temperatures reaching towards 100 degrees in the next several days, Mayor Michelle Wu declared a heat emergency for July 15-17, and offered ways for everyone to stay cool.
Throughout Barbara Rhodes 30 years as the children’s librarian at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, she recommended many titles — and now the room where she worked will most likely be retitled in her honor.
Boston’s Environment Department is currently working with Boston Public Schools on a project at JFK Elementary School to see if it would be a good candidate for geothermal heating and cooling.
