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By adamg - 3/13/24 - 9:57 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports Mayor Wu is continuing to look at putting some sort of education in a rebuilt West Roxbury Education Complex - and has begun talks with the T about the city building a commuter-rail stop on the Needham Line, which passes by the school. A near complete lack of transportation from the rest of the city to nearly the Dedham line was one of the reasons opponents fought to keep the O'Bryant away.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 3:21 pm

A group of Roslindale residents who sued to block a proposed apartment building on Belgrade Avenue at West Roxbury Parkway - several of whom lived in a condo building next door - dropped their suit after a judge said they didn't have much of a case, but could continue if they posted a $200,000 bond to compensate the developer for delay-related costs should they lose. Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 10:27 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal next month considers an application for a marijuana grow facility and home-delivery center at 1457 VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, where Party City and Chair Fair used to be. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 3:11 pm
Proposed building on Grove Street at Washington Street

Rendering by McKay Architects.

A Walpole developer has filed plans to replace a string of low-slung stores on Grove Street at Washington Street with a five-story, 30-unit apartment building that would have ground-floor retail space. Read more.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 5:04 pm
Muskrat chowing down along the Charles at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen videoed a muskrat enjoying a hearty breakfast of the choicest roots at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 1:37 pm

WBUR reports Mayor Wu and Boston Public Schools have "indefinitely" put on hold plans to rebuild the crumbling former West Roxbury High School into a new state-of-the-art home for the John D. O'Bryant School, after parents, students and teachers raised objections to a school on the side of a swamp about as far away from the rest of the city as one could get.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 12:39 pm
Harrier at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted this northern harrier at Millennium Park the other day.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 10:18 pm
Fevrier

A federal magistrate judge today ruled Wolf Fevrier of Roslindale both a potential threat to society and a flight risk and so ordered him held without bail during proceedings on charges he robbed the Rockland Trust branch on Centre Street in West Roxbury on Feb. 16. Read more.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 12:03 am
Suspect in Rockland Trust

Surveillance of suspect in Rockland Trust branch via FBI.

Suspect at Cooperative Bank

The FBI yesterday arrested a Roslindale man they say paid for an expensive shopping trip to the Walgreens on Centre Street in West Roxbury earlier this month by first robbing the Rockland Trust branch down the street - a week after he tried and failed to rob a Bank of America branch in Allston. Read more.

By adamg - 2/18/24 - 5:16 pm
Deer at Brook Farm in West Roxbury

Mary Ellen spotted this doe today at Brook Farm in West Roxbury, once home to a utopian, communal community.

By adamg - 2/17/24 - 10:57 am

A robber claiming he had a gun got away with $1,475 at the Rockland Trust branch at 1920 Centre St. in West Roxbury yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 10:27 pm

Sofia's Italian Steakhouse on VFW Parkway just before Spring Street announced tonight its closing for good on March 2. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 2:08 pm

A vexed citizen files a 311 complaint about how his or her earlier 311 complaint about multiple unused traffic cones on Hackensack Road in the part of West Roxbury that uses the Chestnut Hill Zip code got marked "closed" because "Chestnut Hill is Newton:" Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:23 am
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee.  The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement

Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.

By adamg - 1/25/24 - 11:24 am

CommonWealth Beacon reports on yet another effort by Boston lawmakers to convince the T to change the Hyde Park, Readville and West Roxbury commuter-rail stations to the same zone as the Fairmount one - which could save riders hundreds of dollars a year. But T officials say they're more interested in an overall reduced-fare system it's looking to set-up for low-income riders across the entire commuter-rail network.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 10:06 am

David Rosenberg, who once owned 30 car dealerships in New England and the Mid Atlantic, including Prime Toyota and Prime Honda in West Roxbury, this week sued over the way the company was sold. Read more.

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 10:40 am
Donuts in the ice atop Millennium Park

On her usual walk around Millennium Park this morning, Mary Ellen couldn't help but notice the evidence that somebody had driven up onto the soccer fields at the top of the park and done some donuts:

"I don’t know how bad the field was since hopefully it was frozen," she says, then adds there was also evidence of some karmic retribution: "They did slide right into the fence."

By adamg - 1/23/24 - 10:25 am
Orange sunrise over Morton Street

Handmaid got a good view of this morning's sunrise over Morton Street and the Arborway in Forest Hills.

Mary Ellen got a good view of those clouds, at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.

By adamg - 1/20/24 - 1:04 pm

Boston Police report arresting the owner of Familia Grocery, 243 Grove St. in West Roxbury, on charges he was selling drugs out of the small market. Read more.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 11:36 am
A young bald eagle in a tree in West Roxbury

Mary Ellen spotted a youngish bald eagle (you can tell because his head still isn't completely white) high up in a tree along the Cow Island Pond section of the Charles River on the West Roxbury/Dedham line today.

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