Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and Hyde Park Facebook groups tonight are full of accounts of people and vehicles getting stuck in a mating frenzy of zillions of tiny flying ants, in those neighborhoods and West Roxbury and Dedham, too (Update: Cambridge and Somerville, too). Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/24 - 9:35 am
Mary Ellen spotted a pair of black-crowned night herons keeping an eye out for coppers, or maybe just a big fish, at Millennium Park yesterday.
By adamg - 8/17/24 - 12:54 pm
River Grille, which never quite clicked in West Roxbury the way it had in Hyde Park's Cleary Square, has closed at 1866 Centre St.. The space already has a banner up advertising a new place called Bread Thyme and promising "authentic Lebanese cuisine." Read more.
By adamg - 8/16/24 - 9:54 am
Mary Ellen somehow spotted a goldfinch among the golden flowers at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 10:03 am
Boston Police report a guy has been looking for chain-wearing seniors getting off buses or trains in Hyde Park, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury, then following them and ripping the chains off their necks. Read more.
By adamg - 8/13/24 - 3:46 pm
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Mission on Fire, which replaced Sofia Italian Steakhouse, which replaced the Vintage steak place, which replaced Fontaine's and its neon waving chicken, has opened at 1430 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury. It promises "everything from tapas and artisanal pizzas to savory pastas and our signature rotisserie chicken" all with a "bold Latin influence."
By adamg - 8/8/24 - 4:02 pm
The amount of Covid-19 viral particles in Boston sewers - an indicator of the virus's presence in the community - soared in July, when levels were 163% higher than in May, - still way lower than numbers around New Year's and especially two years ago - the Boston Public Health Commission said today. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/24 - 10:47 pm
Artist Thomas "Detour" Evans finished his mural on the side of the Joyce Kilmer Lower School on Baker Street in West Roxbury this week. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/24 - 10:19 pm
Mary Ellen spotted a too early sign of fall the other day at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 8/4/24 - 7:58 pm
Residents of the Boston Trailer Park in West Roxbury - the city's only trailer park - gathered in front of Donna Cabral's trailer yesterday for some hot dogs, beer and conversation. Read more.
By adamg - 8/3/24 - 9:04 am
The other day, Mary Ellen spotted the glossy ibis that's been bringing all the birders down to the Millennium Park kayak launch the last week or so.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 1:58 pm
A West Roxbury resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about what he or she considers a completely "woke" graffiti mural that just went up on the side of the Joyce Kilmer School on Baker Street, in one of the largest spleen ventings we've seen on 311 in many a year: Read more.
By adamg - 7/26/24 - 2:59 pm
The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.
By adamg - 7/26/24 - 10:43 am
Patrick Brusil makes the bold claim (although it will soon be a Jackson Square landmark since a developer wants to knock its home down for a new residential building).
Note: It's a Facebook video. If you're not logged in and get a login screen, just click the X in the top right and you can watch it.
By adamg - 7/18/24 - 5:13 pm
There are places to be courteous and let someone in ahead of you, but a Boston rotary is not one of them. A really peeved roving UHub driver from Roslindale is worried somebody's going to get killed if people don't stop stopping in the middle of a rotary to let somebody else into the flow of traffic (reminder for outatownas: People already in a rotary have the right of way): Read more.
By adamg - 7/15/24 - 1:59 pm
Mia noticed a listing for a colonial on Grouse Street in West Roxbury that starts: Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/24 - 1:45 pm
Christine Ventura of West Roxbury and her son Teddy, 7, pulled over on Enneking Parkway yesterday to try some fishing off the dock at Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation - even though all they had for bait was some ham from a Dunkin' sandwich. Read more.
By adamg - 7/7/24 - 11:40 am
Ryan spotted two huge deer in the Arnold Arboretum yesterday, one less camera shy than the other.
Mary Ellen reports admission was one buck at Millennium Park this morning: Read more.
By adamg - 6/26/24 - 9:59 pm
At least three drivers got stuck in the raging floodwaters, well, deeper-than-it-looks lake that formed on Spring Street in front of the Star Market plaza in West Roxbury tonight. Read more.
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