Update, 5:10 p.m.: BFD is asking police to shut Enneking Parkway.
Boston firefighters responded shortly after 4 p.m. to Stony Brook Reservation, between West Boundary Road and Enneking Parkway for a brush fire that consumed at least an acre.
Firefighters responded to the reservation on Saturday for a brush fire that erupted on the other side of the parkway, between Washington Street and Turtle Pond.
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.
New sign, who dis?
On Monday, an outraged resident filed a 311 complaint about the goings on at the kayak launch on the Charles at Millennium Park - which is at the end of a fairly narrow path and surrounded by trees and brush: Read more.
On a walk in Millennium Park along the Charles yesterday morning, Mary Ellen's view changed from an egret (and hidden heron) in the calm, morning mist to the frenetic bounding of a pair of young deer: Read more.
Rendering by Context of the view from Centre Street.
A Medfield developer yesterday filed plans to replace a vacant nursing home at 5 Redlands Rd. in West Roxbury with a three-story, 30-unit apartment building with 45 underground parking spaces - and real spaces, not some complex mechanical stacker system. Read more.
Mary Ellen watched the sun go down over the Charles River from Millennium Park in West Roxbury this evening.
Rendering by Sousa Design Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by a developer to replace the last vestiges of Pizzeria Uno in Boston - its former corporate headquarters on the road to Millennium Park - with a two-building, five-story complex with 191 apartments. Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected arguments that Boston Police officers doing a well being check on a man who never missed work should not have entered his house without a warrant, and so upheld the second-degree murder conviction of his son - whom officers found in the house along with his dead father. Read more.
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.
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.
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.
Mary Ellen somehow spotted a goldfinch among the golden flowers at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
Surveillance photos via BPD.
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.
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."
Chart from BPHC July 28 report.
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.
See it larger. Photo by Brendan.
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.
Mary Ellen spotted a too early sign of fall the other day at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Cabral tends to the grill while other residents chat.
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.
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.
The mural in question.
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.
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