The Bellevue Hill Improvement Association in West Roxbury has dropped its lawsuit against a proposed five-story, 124-unit apartment building on the old Clay Chevrolet site on the Roslindale/West Roxbury line. Read more.
Chris Hugenberger shows us his Marathonned house on Albano Street in Roslindale.
Also see: Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings are ready.
Stavros Papantoniadis, still behind bars as he awaits charges that he terrorized and beat employees at his Stash's pizza places in Dorchester and Roslindale, faces new charges that he defrauded a program meant to help small businesses stay afloat during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more.
Some forsythia in full bloom at that Arnold Arboretum, just up the hill from the Walter Street entrance.
GBH takes us on a tour of the Thrift Shop of Boston, now on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square, which has been around since 1926.
A group of Roslindale residents who sued to block a proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway - several of whom lived in a condo building next door - dropped their suit after a judge said they didn't have much of a case, but could continue if they posted a $200,000 bond to compensate the developer for delay-related costs should they lose. Read more.
DCR planners told the Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association last night they hope to go out to bid this spring for a contractor to add traffic signals and do related intersection changes where Walter Street meets Centre Street in Roslindale. Read more.
Scott Kelley reports looking out at his Roslindale backyard today and watched a hawk finish up a meal atop a stump there. By the time he noticed what was going on, the hawk was mostly finished, so he wasn't able to discern what was on the menu. He adds:
The raptor looks to be a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk. Maybe too large for a Sharp-skinned?
The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday unanimously approved plans by Exodus Bagels to add sit-down seating to its bagel bakery at 2 McCraw St. off Belgrade Avenue. Read more.
A federal magistrate judge today ruled Wolf Fevrier of Roslindale both a potential threat to society and a flight risk and so ordered him held without bail during proceedings on charges he robbed the Rockland Trust branch on Centre Street in West Roxbury on Feb. 16. Read more.
Update: WHDH reports the person died.
A person on a moped suffered serious head trauma in a crash with a motor vehicle outside the Target store on Washington Street in Roslindale shortly before 7 p.m.
Washington Street was shut so first responders could tend to and then transport the victim while detectives investigated the crash.
WFXT reports the new BTD regulations along Walter and Bussey streets, aimed at making spaces available for Arnold Arboretum visitors, are causing problems for workers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and Faulkner Hospital.
Mark Smith gets ready for a Bergman film by strolling through the Arnold Arboretum.
A Land Court judge has given some neighbors of a proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway a deadline of March 5 to decide whether their lawsuit is worth posting a $200,000 bond to continue - money they would forfeit to the developer should they lose. Read more.
Rendering by Zephyr Architects.
A Dedham developer has filed plans with the BPDA to raze a medical office and a house to put up 15 condos at 55-57 Belgrade Ave., between St. Nectarios Church and a 31-unit apartment building now under construction where the Folsom Funeral Home used to be. Read more.
Dr. Wendy Huang treats the cat at Angell (photo by MSPCA-Angell).
The MSPCA reports its trying to find the owner of a severely injured cat that a worker at the Stop&Shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale found lying in the store parking lot as she left work shortly before 11 p.m. on Feb. 11. Read more.
Writing in the Pilot, Thomas Lester explains how the main route between Roslindale and Mattapan squares was named for Roslindale's first Catholic pastor, who helped set up what is now Sacred Heart Church on Brown Avenue at what is now one of Boston's non-highway highways.
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum lost some 40 "accessioned" trees, including a dozen hemlocks snapped in half - by a storm in December that brought both rain to already saturated soil and high winds.
WCVB has the video from the Alfa gas station on Washington Street in Roslindale, where a woman in an SUV slammed into a gas pump around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
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