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By adamg - 1/7/25 - 12:34 pm

Lawyers for the Papantoniadis family, which owns Stash's in Dorchester and Bel Ave Pizza in Roslindale today asked the Boston Licensing Board to let it keep the food-serving licenses for the two places now that Stavros Papantoniadis is serving an 8 1/2-year federal sentence for beating, threatening, berating and underpaying his immigrant workers. Read more.

By adamg - 1/6/25 - 9:38 am

Boston Police report arresting three teens they say they found in a stolen car and seizing a gun loaded with nine bullets and the wallet of the car's owner, in the parking lot of the Wendy's at American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street in Roslindale early Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/25/24 - 10:45 pm

Boston firefighters responded to 65 Cornell St. for a fire shortly before 8:10 p.m.

The fire started in the wall and eaves on one side of the two-story, single-family home. The fire was reported knocked down at 8:23 p.m. No reports of injuries.

By adamg - 12/23/24 - 11:49 pm
Firefighters and fire on Paine Street in Roslindale

Boston firefighters responded to 97 Paine St. in Roslindale for a fire around 5 p.m.

The Boston Fire Department reports the fire, which started in the attic, caused no injuries, but says two adults and four children were displaced.

By adamg - 12/20/24 - 12:40 pm

BPS acknowledged this month that putting students and teachers in a school building undergoing massive reconstruction and enlargement isn't working - for either the kids or the construction workers. But part of its solution for construction delays at the former Washington Irving Middle School in Roslindale - moving the classes out, some to the basement of the Roslindale Square community center - has some parents outraged. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/24 - 1:42 pm

B'nai B'rith Housing last week paid $3 million for the abandoned Bank of America branch on Corinth Street in Roslindale Square - and its parking lot with entrances on Cohasset and Washington streets - according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records. Read more.

By adamg - 12/12/24 - 12:45 pm

The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let Home Market, 165 Belgrade Ave. in Roslindale, expand its current beer and wine license to include all alcoholic beverages, after hearing from the store's new owner that she would focus on Greek spirits, rather than simply trying to compete with the more common liquor already for sale at Punta Cana right across the street. Read more.

By adamg - 12/11/24 - 1:01 pm

Harry's All American, 1420 Centre St. in Roslindale, formally asked the Boston Licensing Board today for one of the 02131-specific alcohol licenses it has to dole out, both because customers keep asking for adult accompaniments for their meals and so it can expand into dinner service. Read more.

By adamg - 12/9/24 - 11:59 am

Edit: Corrected to reflect that Harry's never had any plans to expand into the Kelleher's space.

Boston Restaurant Talk serves up the news that the Boston Licensing Board this week considers a request by Kelleher's Bar and Grille on Centre Street near Weld Street in Roslindale to sell its liquor license to some joint in the Hancock Building, um, 200 Clarendon St., in the Back Bay. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/24 - 10:17 pm

A man was shot in the area of Cohasset and Albano streets in Roslindale around 11:20 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 12/7/24 - 4:34 pm
Two downtown building fiercely reflecting the setting sun around 4:05 p.m.

The view of downtown from the Bates School parking lot in Roslindale at 4:05 this afternoon.

And yes, the Hancock wanted to get in on the act: Read more.

By adamg - 12/2/24 - 3:40 pm

Arx Urban is on track to begin work this spring on a mostly affordable 31-unit apartment building at Washington and Basile streets in Roslindale Square, Benjamin Moll, one of the company's principals, says. Read more.

By adamg - 11/25/24 - 11:15 am

Parents of a student with a learning disability at the Haley Pilot School on American Legion in Roslindale last week sued Boston Public Schools, the company that runs the BPS bus system and two drivers for two incidents in which they say their child was not accompanied by a required school worker on the ride home and then kicked off the bus nowhere near home. Read more.

By adamg - 11/25/24 - 9:19 am
Firefighter works to keep fire from reigniting

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 743 Hyde Park Ave. in Roslindale for a first-floor fire around 11:15 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.

By adamg - 11/24/24 - 2:18 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Taunton man after finding a gun loaded with 17 rounds in his car before they had it towed away from a crash at Poplar and Dale streets in Roslindale early Friday morning. Read more.

By adamg - 11/18/24 - 10:30 am

Science IRL explains the ginormous Osage oranges (which are not actual oranges) that litter the ground at the Arboretum, waiting, like Puff for little Jackie Paper, for woolly mammoths that will never come again: Read more.

By adamg - 11/11/24 - 11:05 pm

Boston Police report officers responding to an "officer in trouble" call from Canterbury Street off Walk Hill Street late Friday found the road clogged with more than 100 vehicles - and some party-goers jumping on the pickup of a DYS officer and banging on his windows. Read more.

By adamg - 11/5/24 - 7:04 pm
The line inside the Bates.

Once people in the line outside the Bates got in, they got to stand in another line. Photo by Jessica Burko.

Update: At 7:36 p.m., the Boston Election Department reported that several precincts across the city had run out of ballots. Department said anybody in line at 8 would be allowed to vote.

Around 5:10 p.m., voting came to a halt at ward 18, precinct 10 at the Bates School in Roslindale: Poll workers had run out of ballots to give to voters. Read more.

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 7:30 pm
Overturned car at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road

Photo by a roving UHub photographer

The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.

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