The Bulletin has details on how a Canadian company will help the MWRA determine the best way to upgrade a seven-foot-wide sewer under West Roxbury and Roslindale: Two inspectors will be lowered into the large pipe near the Ohrenberger School - one to inspect the conduit's condition, the other to help get the first guy out in the event of any trouble.

Corey Legere, 24, was sentenced to three years in state prison and three years probation today after earlier pleading guilty to plowing into a Jamaica Plain man walking across Centre and Ardale streets in Roslindale last October, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Legere admitted he'd shot up with heroin before getting in his car - and to fleeing the scene of the accident. He was arrested at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he'd gone with his girlfriend for treatment of his own injuries.

Prosecutors said the victim was thrown 15 feet from the point of impact. The DA's office said today that the man, who initially seemed likely to die, "has demonstrated some control over his motor control functions" and "is also beginning to interact with his family again."

Wicked Local Roslindale reports police are looking for a guy who urinated in one Cliftondale Street resident's yard around early one recent evening, got into a white car and drove off and then returned later that evening to urinate in another resident's yard before driving off again. Described as a a light-skinned, 20-something black male around 5'9".

The MWRA this week awarded a contract to an Edmonton company to figure out the best way to renovate an aging sewer main through West Roxbury, that is, a different aging sewer main than the one that forced years of traffic disruption along the VFW Parkway.

The West Roxbury Tunnel, seven feet in diameter, runs 2 1/2 miles from the VFW Parkway (near the McDonald's - and near the start of the Upper Neponset main under the VFW Parkway) under West Roxbury and Roslindale before emptying into another main at Hyde Park Avenue. The tunnel - which carries waste from as far west as Framingham - was bored through rock and is at some points 220 feet underground.

MWRA spokesperson Ria Convery says it's way too early to say if the project will involve major digging, because that will depend on how the MWRA decides to renovate the tunnel. She said the authority currently doesn't plan to begin work until 2012, leaving plenty of time for public hearings on the project, which currently has an estimated cost of $80 million.

Ever wonder what the inside of a sewer looks like? Some photos from inside the West Roxbury Tunnel.

Area E-5 reports the tire takers of West Roxbury and Roslindale are going after Hondas, Nissans, Toyotas and Acuras.

Earlier:
And they're doing damage to the cars.

Wicked Local Roslindale reports that when a woman accidentally walked in on a relative in the bathroom during a family gathering, the relative started throwing toilet paper at her. Naturally, she immediately called police, who quickly rolled up, but who then declined to put the squeeze on anybody.

The item is near the bottom of that link, just past the item about the two 25-pound ceramic elephants that have gone missing in West Roxbury.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today ruled a man arrested by two Boston detectives who later pled guilty to making up warrants and keeping the proceeds of raids can sue the state under a law designed to compensate people found innocent after their convictions.

Area E-5 puts us on notice.

The Popeyes in Roslindale is coming along - in the strip mall on American Legion Highway by Canterbury Street. It'll be interesting to see how many chicken lovers cross the road to eat there instead of at the KFC on the other side.