West Roxbury

Rare house for sale in premier Boston school zone

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.

Boston boy catches fish in Boston pond with most Boston of baits

By adamg - 7/14/24 - 1:45 pm

Boy with pumpkinseed caught in Turtle Pond

Teddy Ventura poses with fish he caught using some ham from a Dunkin' Donuts sandwich in Turtle Pond.

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.

Admission to the Arboretum yesterday was two bucks

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.

Turn around, don't drown at the Star Market

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.

It's bright yellow, oozes along the ground and can solve mazes, but has one of the worst names in the world

By adamg - 6/24/24 - 1:06 pm

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Mary Ellen spotted something a little different the other day on one of her walks around Millennium Park in West Roxbury: A slime mold. Read more.

Citizen complaint of the day: Somebody ran amok with white paint at Billings Field in West Roxbury

By adamg - 6/18/24 - 11:15 am

White paint on minivan on Lagrange Street next to Billings Field

Three concerned citizens filed 311 complaints this morning about paint vandalism at Billings Field and along Lagrange Street in West Roxbury, including one about a minivan covered in what was left of the white paint left in the can that the vandals left in the street. Read more.

Did the earth move for you, too?

By adamg - 6/13/24 - 1:30 pm

Update: LoRusso Corp. confirms it conducted a blast shortly after 1 p.m. at its quarry at Grove and Centre Street in West Roxbury.

Reports are coming in from West Roxbury, Hyde Park and right here in the UHub Newsroom (OK, our dining room table) of some weird shaking going on shortly after 1 p.m. Read more.

Oh, sure, you lay a couple dozen eggs and see how you feel

By adamg - 6/6/24 - 11:52 am

Mary Ellen reports that she and Dolly the Dog came across four egg-laying turtles along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday (and that she and Dolly kept a good distance and didn't linger so as not to stress them).

Heron coming in hot

By adamg - 6/5/24 - 10:31 pm

Green heron about to land on a tree at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen watched a green heron coming in for a landing at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.

Once down, it quickly composed itself: Read more.

Color burst at Millennium Park

By adamg - 5/31/24 - 10:50 pm

Mary Ellen couldn't help but notice this lupine at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

You'll flip over Millennium Park

By adamg - 5/25/24 - 9:55 am

Acrobatics on a picnic bench at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted somebody getting in some morning balance-beam work on one of the picnic benches at the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.

Pupusas to be replaced by barbecue in West Roxbury

By adamg - 5/23/24 - 11:18 am

The Boston Licensing Board today gave the operator of a barbecue food truck a license to open a permanent storefront at 5272 Washington St. in West Roxbury, currently home to a Salvadoran restaurant. Read more.

A shroomy day

By adamg - 5/16/24 - 9:43 pm

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Some bloomin' mushrooms on a tree at Millennium Park along the Charles River this afternoon, after the rain had stopped.

Budding buck

By adamg - 5/4/24 - 11:14 am

Young buck in the scrub at Millennium Park

The other morning, Mary Ellen spotted this buck at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Read more.

Spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the birdies is - They're at Millennium Park, getting plump and scary

By adamg - 4/27/24 - 10:04 pm

Mary Ellen spotted a bunch of birds at Millennium Park yesterday, including this l'il plumper, otherwise known as a palm warbler.

And there's this common grackle, looking like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or, well, anywhere else: Read more.

And now for something completely different: Large West Roxbury parking lot could be replaced by, no, not life sciences, but a simple warehouse

By adamg - 4/19/24 - 10:23 am

Rendering by Furrow Engineering.

A developer says it will soon file detailed plans with the BPDA to replace what is now a parking lot in an industrial zone along Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury with a warehouse and distribution center. Read more.