A bedeviled resident filed a 311 complaint about the infernal racket outside the Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue near Lord's and Lady's Way in West Roxbury: Read more.
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By adamg - 10/14/24 - 11:40 am
Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.
By adamg - 10/12/24 - 12:35 pm
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports a water-main break in Brookline on Wednesday is continuing to affect water pressure and color in some areas "in the southern parts of Boston." Read more.
By adamg - 10/10/24 - 8:29 pm
Tom Leonard spotted the aurora right over his house in Lower Allston - looking west on Athol Street - around 7:20 p.m.
Kevin D. Jordan spotted the lights around the Needham TV towers - and he reports that unlike last time, they were definitely visible with the naked eye, even if only briefly: Read more.
By adamg - 10/10/24 - 10:44 am
Mary Ellen looked across the Charles from Millennium Park in West Roxbury at a copse of trees in Needham this morning.
By adamg - 10/8/24 - 9:33 pm
Mary Ellen spotted these American goldfinches in their fall finery this morning at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 9/29/24 - 12:18 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this great egret doing a little noshing in the Charles River off Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
By adamg - 9/28/24 - 12:25 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this butterfly grabbing a meal at a flower at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 9/25/24 - 10:55 pm
The Energy Credit Union, 156 Spring St. in West Roxbury, was robbed of nearly $200,000 in a holdup shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday that investigators soon realized was staged by a teller and his brother, posing as a robber, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/24 - 11:29 pm
Alleged walk-up deposit at a drive-thru ATM in Needham by gang member Brandon Baez (from affidavit).
Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.
The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.
By adamg - 9/22/24 - 4:39 pm
In 1989, The Unbearable Lightness of Being was playing at the Village Cinema in the Hancock Village Shopping Center on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury - and next door Stan Salter was serving up pastrami on rye and challah French Toast next door at his eponymous deli. Read more.
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 10:52 pm
Mary Ellen captured the nearly full supa moon tonight above a West Roxbury ped (the fullest super moon is Tuesday, complete with a partial eclipse peaking around 10:44 p.m.).
By adamg - 9/16/24 - 4:37 pm
Update, 5:10 p.m.: BFD is asking police to shut Enneking Parkway.
Boston firefighters responded shortly after 4 p.m. to Stony Brook Reservation, between West Boundary Road and Enneking Parkway for a brush fire that consumed at least an acre.
Firefighters responded to the reservation on Saturday for a brush fire that erupted on the other side of the parkway, between Washington Street and Turtle Pond.
By adamg - 9/15/24 - 5:38 pm
Firefighters fight brush fire in Stony Brook Reservation. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters have been busy battling brush fires this weekend, first in Stony Brook Reservation yesterday and then in Franklin Park today - after more than three weeks without any rain. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/24 - 3:25 pm
New sign, who dis?
On Monday, an outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about the goings on at the kayak launch on the Charles at Millennium Park - which is at the end of a fairly narrow path and surrounded by trees and brush: Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/24 - 9:50 am
On a walk in Millennium Park along the Charles yesterday morning, Mary Ellen's view changed from an egret (and hidden heron) in the calm, morning mist to the frenetic bounding of a pair of young deer: Read more.
By adamg - 8/30/24 - 9:42 am
Rendering by Context of the view from Centre Street.
A Medfield developer yesterday filed plans to replace a vacant nursing home at 5 Redlands Rd. in West Roxbury with a three-story, 30-unit apartment building with 45 underground parking spaces - and real spaces, not some complex mechanical stacker system. Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/24 - 10:55 pm
Mary Ellen watched the sun go down over the Charles River from Millennium Park in West Roxbury this evening.
By adamg - 8/27/24 - 1:37 pm
Rendering by Sousa Design Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by a developer to replace the last vestiges of Pizzeria Uno in Boston - its former corporate headquarters on the road to Millennium Park - with a two-building, five-story complex with 191 apartments. Read more.
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