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By adamg - 4/21/23 - 11:42 am
MacGregor, Orthman, Segel

MacGregor, Orthman, Segel.

A generally genial online forum for the three candidates running for the state representative's seat that Ed Coppinger quit briefly turned tense last night over the West Roxbury hot-button of the fenced off field of dirt at Centre and Park streets. Read more.

By adamg - 4/20/23 - 11:26 am

Boston Restaurant Talk reports H Mart is moving into the Beacon Street space where Whole Foods used to be.

By adamg - 4/18/23 - 1:23 pm

The Highland Neighborhood Civic Association will hold a Zoom forum on Thursday for the three Democratic candidate for the state rep's seat vacated by Ed Coppinger. Read more.

By adamg - 4/17/23 - 10:41 am
Minutemen and followers marching to Old North Bridge in Concord

Michael Sentance watched a troop of Minutemen and followers in Concord on their morning march to destiny to Old North Bridge.

Meanwhile, down in Coolidge Corner, Michael Burstein watched William Dawes sound the alarum that the regulars were coming, on his way from the North End: Read more.

By adamg - 4/4/23 - 9:22 am
Trees with protective wooden hula skirts on VFW Parkway

Trees along VFW Parkway on either side of South Street at the West Roxbury/Brookline line are currently wrapped in protective wooden slats as a contractor hired by DCR gets ready to revamp the intersection with new left-turn lanes on the parkway and traffic signals. Read more.

By adamg - 3/27/23 - 3:34 pm

Progressive West Roxbury/Roslindale holds a forum tonight for Rob Orthman or Roslindale and Celia Segel of Jamaica Plain, who are running in the May 2 Democratic primary for the 10th Suffolk state representative's seat Ed Coppinger recently resigned from. Read more.

By adamg - 3/20/23 - 9:38 am

Celia Segal of Jamaica Plain has filed papers with the state for a possible run in the Democratic primary in May to replace Ed Coppinger, who recently resigned from the 10th Suffolk seat. Read more

By adamg - 3/15/23 - 5:12 pm

Cambridge Police report arresting a local 15-year-old this morning for what they say was a series of incidents Saturday that started with him stealing an unlocked BMW at a Brookline clothing store and ended with him nearly ramming three MIT students - just after he'd stopped near them to ditch the dog that was in the car - police say. Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/23 - 9:23 am

Robert Orthman of Roslindale and Garrett Casey of Jamaica Plain have both filed with the state to run as Democrats for the 10th Suffolk state representative's seat Ed Coppinger resigned from this week. Read more.

By adamg - 2/27/23 - 12:22 pm

The Secretary of State's office has set May 2 for primary elections to select candidates for May 30 special elections to replace outgoing state Reps. Jon Santiago (South End) and Ed Coppinger (West Roxbury and a smidge of Brookline). Read more.

By adamg - 2/25/23 - 12:00 pm
Inside the Busy Bee in Brookline

Patrick Magure takes us behind the counter at the Busy Bee on Beacon Street in Brookline on a Saturday morning: Read more.

By adamg - 2/23/23 - 9:25 am

Josh Borrow reports from a hobbled C Line trolley that it took him 25 minutes to get from Coolidge Corner to Kenmore Square this morning because of a trolley that limped into Kenmore, then promptly expired.

By adamg - 2/16/23 - 1:44 pm

Patrick Maguire reports that Japonaise Bakery & Café, on Beacon Street on the Brookline side of Audubon Circle, expects to re-open in 45 to 60 days. Owner Takeo Sakan closed it in 2021 for the first extensive renovations since it opened in 1985. He started a GoFundme page both to help pay for the new equipment and to help support the staff during the closure.

By adamg - 2/8/23 - 1:29 pm

See ya, GateHouse or Gannett or whatever you call yourselves these days. A non-profit news startup co-founded by former Globe editorial-page editor Ellen Clegg in Brookline is not only starting up, it's hiring a full-time editor in chief - with "a competitive salary" and everything. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/23 - 5:26 pm

The Brookline Police Department reports that what might have started as a kitchen fire at Silk Road Uyghur Cuisine, 1398 Beacon St. in Brookline shortly before 3 p.m. turned into a two-alarm fire before Brookline firefighters extinguished the blaze. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/23 - 10:57 am

Cheryl-Ann's Bakery,1010 West Roxbury Parkway, long known for its challah, bubkes, rugalach and other kosher baked goods, reports it hopes to re-open this spring, more than a year after a fire forced it shut: Read more.

By adamg - 1/28/23 - 3:22 pm

The MBTA reports it's rounding up some buses to replace the C Line trolleys that can't run due to a train that has switched to the track to Elysian Fields at Coolidge Corner.

By adamg - 1/22/23 - 6:26 pm
Car on Green Line tracks along Beacon Street

Photo by a roving UHub photographer.

The MBTA had to bust out some shuttle buses for the C Line after a driver somehow wound up on the tracks near Dean Road and Beacon Street, around 5:30 p.m. The T reports things are back to as hunky dory as they get these days on the Green Line.

By adamg - 1/1/23 - 12:06 pm
Flipped SUV in Brookline's Washington Square

Nancy spotted this bad crash in Washington Square in Brookline shortly before 11 a.m.

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