Health & Environment

Hazardous Needles Sighted on Sheafe Street

Posted on Author Matt ContiComments(3)

An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) was over on Sheafe St. on Monday morning, where a North End resident was walking a dog and captured this picture of almost 30 used needles on the sidewalk. A clear hazard to dogs and children, the waste may have fallen out of a garbage bag. The EMT said he was sent over to pick them up.

Related Articles
Health & Environment Police & Fire

Second Flight in Gassy Becoming Home for Drug Use

Posted on Author Ralph Martignetti

I took these pictures at 2pm Monday afternoon. Not only has the 2nd flight in the gassy become a favorite place for drug users to stick needles in their arms but it is also fast becoming an ignored place without any cleanup. There are needles and other stuff all over. The bottom of the gassy Read More…
Event Notices

ZLC Committee Jan. 28 Agenda: 471-477 Hanover St. and 27 Sheafe St.

Posted on Author NEWRA

The January Zoning, Licensing and Construction (ZLC) Committee meeting will be held Tuesday, January 28 at 7 p.m. at the Mariners House, 11 North Square, 2nd floor. The ZLC will hear an appeal to change the legal occupancy of 471-477 Hanover Street from 7 units to 6 units and make exterior and interior modifications including Read More…
Health & Environment

Needle Watch on Richmond Street

Posted on Author Matt Conti

A reader reports multiple sightings this week of drug needles on Richmond Street. The needles are often left on the strip of grass between the side of the Callahan Tunnel building and the dog run. The needles in the photos were found in that area, adjacent to a residential building on Richmond Street.

3 Replies to “Hazardous Needles Sighted on Sheafe Street”

  2. Whoever’s needles those are should have a needle box. Simply put them in a tin can, so in the chance a trash bag gets ripped open this won’t happen. Very dangerous.

  3. What was the name on the perscription medicine bottles next to the needles ? Clearly they came out of the same garbage bag.

Comments are closed.