Lynch makes a point outside West Roxbury VA
By adamg - 2/21/25 - 2:26 pm

US Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-7th) joined VA and other government workers outside the VA Medical Center in West Roxbury today to denounce the Musk administration's moves to demolish the VA system, which started last week with the immediate layoffs of 1,000 VA workers across the country. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/25 - 8:44 pm

US Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-8th) reports he'll be at the Spring Street entrance to the West Roxbury Veterans Administration hospital at 1 p.m. on Friday to lead a protest "in support of our veterans and federal workers who have been impacted by President Trump's massive layoffs." Signs are encouraged, he says.

Car flipped on VFW Parkway
By adamg - 2/8/25 - 11:53 am

A driver somehow flipped his car on VFW Parkway inbound in West Roxbury just before the intersection with Centre Street around 10:30 a.m. He was able to get out of what was left of his vehicle and declined medical attention.

Red-tailed hawk after the snow in Millennium Park
By adamg - 2/1/25 - 3:25 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this red-tailed hawk looking for some breakfast this morning at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

Two muskrats huddle along the Charles River
By adamg - 1/19/25 - 12:23 pm

Mary Ellen captured some muskrat love in Millennium Park along the Charles River yesterday. A bit upstream, she spotted an eagle doing a celebratory eagle dance before chowing down on that deer carcass on the ice.

Eagle and crow face off over freshly dead deer
By adamg - 1/18/25 - 10:20 am

Mary Ellen witnessed quite the scene yesterday at the Cow Island Pond stretch of the Charles River off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury, after rushing over on reports coyotes chased down a deer onto the ice - only to scattered, possibly after one of them also up and died. And that left the newly deceased deer available as some fresh buffet for some scavenger birds, including, yes, the noble bald eagle (who was joined by a mate: Read more

Rendering of proposed Grove Street building
By adamg - 1/10/25 - 10:02 am

A developer who won approval in August for a 30-unit condo project with 11 parking spaces on Grove Street at Washington Street in West Roxbury yesterday asked the Boston Planning Department to let him put in 30 parking spaces instead. Read more.

By adamg - 1/1/25 - 12:33 pm

A 15-year-old from West Roxbury faces charges that he and two accomplices broke into a Weld Street home, then made the teen they found there strip at the point of a gun and knives so they could steal his expensive pants along with fancy sneakers, shoes and sneakers and an older iPhone, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 12/27/24 - 8:21 pm

A man walked into the Rockland Trust branch at 1920 Centre St. in West Roxbury, yelled "give me all your money!" but then fled without any money, around 1:35 p.m.

He was described as a white guy with a "large, fluffy gray mustache," about 5'3" and maybe in his 60s. He wore a thick black jacket and sunglasses.

Line of salt trucks waiting to pick up salt at Public Works shed in West Roxbury
By adamg - 12/24/24 - 9:24 am

On a trip to Millennium Park this morning, Mary Ellen spotted a line of salters waiting to pick up some fresh salt at the Public Works salt shed next to the park.

By adamg - 12/5/24 - 3:51 pm

Several alleged members of a Boston-area drug ring face court appearances today after their arrests on a charge of conspiracy to sell fentanyl and cocaine - in an operation with growing pains that included the high costs of constantly driving or Ubering between Boston and Providence and employees coming down with work-related ailments, from asthma and neck problems to nausea and drug overdoses, according to documents unsealed in federal court today. Read more.

Tree across path at Millennium Park
By adamg - 12/2/24 - 11:04 am

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about some demolition work along the path that follows Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.

After the fire at 29 Keystone St.
By adamg - 11/26/24 - 11:49 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 29 Keystone St. in West Roxbury for a fire around 2:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/24/24 - 4:00 pm

Seven years after the Boston Conservation Commission gave him approval, a construction company hired by Ronen Drory recently began work to convert a long vacant lot on VFW Parkway southbound in West Roxbury into one of his Prestige car washes - right across from Adam Korngold's Waves car wash on the northbound side of the road. Read more.

Brush fire in the woods off West Roxbury Parkway and Weld Street
By adamg - 11/13/24 - 9:19 pm

Boston firefighters responded to the section of Allandale Woods off West Roxbury Parkway, VFW Parkway and Weld Street for a brush fire shortly before 5:45 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/8/24 - 11:59 am

Walgreens, which has been shutting Boston pharmacies left and right over the past couple of years, yesterday closed its pharmacy at 1999 Centre St. in West Roxbury. Read more.

Deer drinking water with some ducks and tires
By adamg - 11/7/24 - 8:49 am

Mary Ellen watched a young deer yesterday morning getting something to drink in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, along with some ducks and some tires.

Roche Bros. in West Roxbury
By adamg - 10/31/24 - 1:52 pm

Members of the family that owns Roche Bros., which grew from a Roslindale Square meat market in 1952 into today's Roche Bros. and Sudbury Farms chains, are selling controlling interest in the company to a Connecticut food-delivery concern that has long been the chains' principal supplier of food and other products. Read more.

Little lamb animal
By adamg - 10/25/24 - 11:59 am

Mary Ellen spotted a different kind of creature on her morning walk around Millennium Park this morning: This little lost sheep. Little Bo Peep, or perhaps Shari Lewis, will find Lamb Chop on a railing along the lower path, just past the first bridge into the woods heading towards the kayak launch and the lower parking lot.

Machinery in use outside Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue
By adamg - 10/18/24 - 1:14 pm

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.