Roslindale
The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries from the explosion this afternoon on the fourth floor of Sophia Snow Place, 1205 Centre St.: Read more
Boston Police report seizing heroin, cocaine and shotguns at two locations yesterday. Read more
Workers were busy ripping down the old Square Corner Cafe awning on Washington Street today as they transmogrify the failed sandwich shop into the Rialto Cafe.
The name pays homage to the long gone Rialto movie theater, which sat next door, where the Greater Roslindale Medical and Dental Center is now - and which also gave its name to the Rialto Barber Shop (which is where I heard the news about the new restaurant).
Anybody know what sort of food they'll be serving?
Local 718 tweets firefighters responded to a fire that broke out around 1:30 a.m. at 8 Destefano Rd..
In addition to West Roxbury state Rep. Mike Rush, state Reps. Paul McMurtry of Dedham and John Rogers of Norwood are looking at possible runs, the Herald reports. Wicked Local West Roxbury, though, says McMurtry has already scratched himself from the race.
Republican Brad Williams is also running.
Geeky Mama reports on a meeting last week of parents of kids at the Irving Middle School, parents of Roslindale elementary students (Roslindale has no K-8 programs) and School Superintendent Carol Johnson. Parents are loving new principal Arthur Unobskey and parents pushed for more extended-day programs.
Won't take on Mike Rush for Marian Walsh's Suffolk and Norfolk state-senate seat, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.
David and India Shannon both report a blackout in Roslindale, along Centre Street, for about 45 minutes tonight. Anybody else lose power? The lights stayed on at the other end of the neighborhood, by the Hyde Park line.
The Globe interviews Kelly Young, whose Braving the BPS Lottery has been a great resource for parents in the West Zone (Roslindale, West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain) dealing with the issue of school choice for their pre-schoolers and impending kindergarteners.
Ed Coppinger reports; latest sign the West Roxbury state senator won't be seeking re-election this year?
Was just about to go outside to do some shoveling (yeah, I'm a slug; also was finishing up a non-Boston project), when this loud rumbling started coming from the north. And then these two large Army (?) copters zoomed past, headed south, parallel to Hyde Park Avenue. It's the route news copters take on their way back from the latest accident on the Deck or wherever, but they don't usually fly so frickin' close to the ground (that bar at the bottom is one of the utility lines along the street).
David Ertischek at Wicked Local West Roxbury discovers that state Rep. Mike Rush already has a his state Senate campaign site up (you may recall he said he'd be running this year no matter what incumbent Marian Walsh does). Eagle-eyed Ertischek also notices the phone number on the site's contribution page is Rush's current State House office number, which may just violate the state law that prohibits the use of state property for campaigning.
Rush has been a state rep since 2002, so you'd think he'd know these things by now. Read more
Armed with coupons for 5% off our order and a free jar of Hellman's mayo, we decamped today for the rebuilt Stop & Shop at American Legion and Cummins highways (where the Bradlees used to be). Read more
Geeky Mama uses BPS stats to figure out that last year, there were, at best, between 0.76 and 0.81 seats per applicant available for KI (pre-school) classes in West Roxbury, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain:
... The message to BPS – please add more K1 seats, soon.
Channel 7 posts a photo of the car down an embankment off Belgrade Avenue just past the West Roxbury Parkway tonight.
Boston Police report arresting a Washington-Beech resident after finding more than 45 grams of cocaine in his apartment. Read more
Wicked Local Roslindale report police have a pretty good idea who robbed the Citizens Bank branch in Roslindale Square yesterday - he left his probation card in the cab he used to get away in. Name not released because the police haven't stopped laughing yet he hasn't been caught or formally charged yet.
A trash truck took down a utility pole on Wellsmere Road in Roslindale this morning.
Is this what The Fog was like?
South Street, around 3 p.m. Fortunately, I was able to take refuge in Romano's.
Same ominous clouds a little while later, menacing the Back Bay.
Arbri Cafe recently opened at 146 Belgrade Ave., which is where Roslindale's last Albanian restaurant - Cafe Apollonia - was before being replaced by a pizza/burger joint (whose sign is still up, just covered up now - which matches the new Taiwanese restaurant across the street, which did the same thing).
In addition to Albanian dishes, the restaurant also has Italian and Greek food on the menu.
Anybody got a coupla quarters so I can make a phone caw?
Seth Gitell forwarded this photo of some ominous crows this morning at the Dunkin' Donuts drive thru on American Legion Highway.
Wicked Local West Roxbury reports that, in addition to state Rep. Mike Rush, Brad Williams, chairman of the Ward 20 Republican Ward Committee, is running for the seat Marian Walsh has yet to say whether she'll try to retain next year. Read more
West Roxbury state Rep. Mike Rush plans to run for Marian Walsh's Senate seat next year even if she decides to seek re-election, State House News Service reports.
Why? Rush thinks she's running on fumes; pointing to her acceptance, then rejection of a good paying job with the Patrick administration earlier this year. There was also her rumored, then never-happened judicial appointment last year, which led to a secret meeting between handlers for Rush and sometimes Westie rival, City Councilor John Tobin, over who would run for her seat.
In recent years, Rush and Walsh have not exactly gotten along. He's represented the 10th Suffolk District since 2002. Read more
Sun goes down over Roslindale Square
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