The annual Roslindale Parade kicks off at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Roslindale Square for the annual walk down Belgrade Avenue.
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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 - 9/21/24 - 10:31 am
The rain date looks like it could be rainy, too, and it's supposed to make like Francis and lighten up later today, organizers say.
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 - 9/15/24 - 2:23 pm
Last night, Julia Wean was in the Roslindale Square courtyard, the cute brick patio shared by three restaurants off Birch and Corinth streets, when a new diner waddled in.
By adamg - 9/10/24 - 9:29 am
A federal judge has sentenced Deondre Blanding, 27, of Roslindale, to five years in prison for engaging in a shootout in a pot deal gone bad on a residential street in Randolph, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 9/4/24 - 5:45 pm
When Boston Animal Care and Control said last week they have found Moodini the Roslindale Steer, they said he was out back of the Walgreens off American Legion Highway near Crane Ledge, the wooded hill a Texas developer wants to blast to kingdom come to put in an apartment complex.
But one nearby resident says he has proof Moodini didn't just hoof it to the top of the hill - he spent considerable time on it, and he has proof in the form of photos of lots and lots of cow patties: Read more.
By adamg - 9/3/24 - 9:35 am
Map showing proposed changes - blob at far left is now parking, will become a stand of trees, walkways
The Arnold Arboretum has filed plans to upgrade its Walter Street gate in Roslindale in part by replacing eight parking spaces with trees and improving the pedestrian paths along Bussey Brook near the entrance. Read more.
By adamg - 8/30/24 - 12:31 pm
Distraction Brewing in Roslindale Square, which announced earlier this month it was closing forever tomorrow and selling its operations to another brewer, announced today that it's staying open. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/24 - 12:16 pm
Steer waiting for rescuers to get a mooove on. Photo by MSPCA.
The MSPCA reports Moodini the Roslindale Bull, um, Steer, is now comfortably ensconced at its Nevins Farm in Methuen, where he is undergoing state mandated medical testing and exams before he can be re-homed to an area more suitable for one of our larger mammals than woods out back of a strip mall in New England's largest city. Read more.
By adamg - 8/27/24 - 5:05 pm
Fernando, corralled behind the pharmacy.
Boston animal-control officers and MSPCA farm-animal rescuers today captured the bull that had gone missing in Roslindale in June. Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/24 - 8:42 pm
Vero Navarro of Hyde Park managed to capture just one of the ants, between her home's back door and its screen door, this evening.
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 - 12:43 pm
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint, along with the day's moodiest photo, about the lack of lights in the pedestrian tunnel under the Needham Line tracks between Belgrade Avenue and Fallon Field in Roslindale.
By adamg - 8/16/24 - 1:48 pm
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department, which owns the Arnold Arboretum, and Harvard University, which has 858 years left on its lease of the land, have petitioned the city Public Improvement Commission to change the name of Bussey Street to Flora Way. Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/24 - 7:10 pm
Mark Smith watched the storm clouds roll in over Roslindale Square this afternoon (the Municipal Building and the Greater Roslindale medical clinic building in the lower left).
By adamg - 7/31/24 - 1:21 pm
The two outages that left part of Roslindale without lights or air conditioning yesterday were caused by "an underground cable fault" underneath Belgrade Avenue, an Eversource spokesperson said today. Read more.
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