Roslindale

Immediately to the right after you enter.

The owner of the McDonald's franchise on American Legion Highway has withdrawn his request for a license to stay open 24/7.

Roslindale turned out for the annual Roslindale Day Parade today. Marching bands marched, politicians politicked and, at least where we were, everbody seemed to have a good time:

The owner of the McDonald's at 718 American Legion Highway goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Weds., Oct. 6, seeking permission to stay open 24 hours a day. The burger outlet is currently open 7 a.m. to midnight.

Held this past Sunday at the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Epiphany in Roslindale.

Laura Scannell spotted the sign at the Roslindale farmers' market on Saturday.

Copyright Laura Scannell. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

From the front door, go straight back - after you stop at the circulation desk to pick up the appropriate key.

Boston Fireman reports Boston rescue crews and Amtrak police rushed to the tracks near Hyde Park Avenue and Cummins Highway around 11:40 a.m. this morning, initially on reports the train hit somebody. Boston Fireman says the incident did mean "residual delays" for train riders on the line.

If you reach for some shampoo, conditioner or deodorant at the CVS on Washington Street, you now have to move these vertical hanging plastic strips that make a fair amount of noise when jostled. Puzzled by this, one of our roving correspondents got the scoop:

The store's been plagued by people shoplifting the items and then returning later, demanding "refunds" for them. So now, when somebody reaches for some Pantene, a clerk's alerted and can keep an eye on whoever's making the noise. They're helped by the store's general layout - the shelves on most of the aisles are fairly low.

The Roslindale Community Center will be hosting a ZUMBA demo session for potential sign ups this fall on Thursday night, September 30.

Taught by instructors DiAnna Reed & Tiffany Young of Roslindale, Session I will be for parents and kids will run from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM, and Session II for adults-only will run from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Bring water, towel, and your party or jazz sneakers. There will be an opportunity at the demonstration to sign up for classes to be scheduled this fall season at the Roslindale Community Center, at 6 Cummins Highway (corner of Washington Street) in Roslindale Square.

Additional information is available at www.unakitepower.com.

To preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:

then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.

The district covers parts of Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park and slivers of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain. Incumbent Willie Mae Allen is stepping down.

Web sites: Kathy Gabriel, Russell Holmes, Darrin Howell, Karen Payne.

Five candidates seek to replace Allen in Sixth Suffolk - Dorchester Reporter.
Education focus at Sixth forum - Dorchester Reporter.

The district covers Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill and parts of Roslindale and Brookline. Incumbent Democrat Jeffrey Sanchez is being challenged in the primary by Jeffrey Herman.

Web sites: Jeffrey Herman, Jeffrey Sanchez.

Report from a candidates' forum - Jamaica Plain Gazette.
Some more background from the Gazette.

The following op-ed was written by Pamela Julian's son Anthony Byrne and daughter Courtney Byrne:
The local community newspapers owned by GateHouse Media, Inc., particularly the Brookline Tab and West Roxbury Transcript, have insulted their readers yet again. As the son and daughter of State Representative candidate Pamela Julian, we have witnessed biased and/or negligent reporting of this campaign from the beginning. We expected either the Tab or Transcript or both to endorse Kelly Tynan or Paul Sullivan. Why? They published nearly ten op-eds between Tynan and Sullivan while ignoring the multiple op-eds submitted by my mother, Pamela Julian. In fact, the Tab did not print my mother's announcement of her candidacy. They printed all the others. The Tab even published a picture of Tynan during the Brookline forum despite my mother Pamela Julian being the only candidate from Brookline.

As one of the six candidates for State Representative in the 10th Suffolk District, I have the most experience, both politically and professionally.

My political experience includes being elected a library trustee chair, the only candidate to have been elected to public office.  I authored pending legislation to establish a student voter registration system, which will allow students to register to vote on-campus. I helped win the Bellevue Hill area of West Roxbury in the 1983 mayoral campaign of Dave Finnegan.

I owned a business, developed an 88-acre site on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire, and worked in both radio and television. These are some of my professional credentials but I also raised two children, both college graduates. Being a single parent, I know the challenges single mothers face.

Ninth District Rep. Steve Lynch and Democratic challenger Mac D'Alessandro discussed everything from the proposed Islamic cultural center in lower Manhattan to, of course, health care, in a 20-minute discussion on WGBH's "Greater Boston" tonight (Watch).

Channel 2's "Greater Boston" will air a debate between 9th District incumbent Steve Lynch and Democratic challenger Mac D'Alessandro at 7 p.m. tonight (the debate will be taped at 4:30). Greater Boston airs for 30 minutes, so that would make this twice as long as their earlier debate.

Brian McGrory sums up Richel Nova's murder.

The three people charged with murdering a Domino's delivery man were ordered held without bail at their arraignment today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Michel Andre St. Jean, 20, of Hyde Park; Alexander Emmanuel Gallett, 18, of Hyde Park and Yamiley Mathurin, 17, of Mattapan, are charged with stabbing Richel Nova, 58, to death last Wednesday night and then making off with $100, the pizza they'd ordered and his car. They pleaded not guilty at their arraignments in West Roxbury District Court. According to the DA's office:

We got this flyer from the D'Alessandro campaign yesterday:

The new face of evil: Click to embiggen

MathurinBoston Police report arresting two Hyde Park men and a Mattapan woman on charges they stabbed Richel Nova to death when he delivered a pizza to the vacant Hyde Park Avenue house they had allegedly broken into late Wednesday night.

Michel Andre St. Jean, 20, of Hyde Park; Alexander Emmanuel Gallett, 18, of Hyde Park and Yamiley Mathurin, 17, of Mattapan, are all charged with murder, armed robbery and armed breaking and entering of a dwelling house.

Needham Patch reports on a Ninth District forum that featured Democrat Mac D'Alessandro and Republican Vernon Harrison. Their opponents, incumbent Democrat Steve Lynch and Republican Keith Lepor were no-shows.

Death scene: 742 Hyde Park Ave.

A pizza-delivery man in his 50s was stabbed to death at 742 Hyde Park Ave. in Roslindale shortly before midnight by two men and a woman, who stole his car and then abandoned it behind a church a couple miles away in Hyde Park, police say.

Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, speaking near the car behind St. Adalbart Church on River Street this morning, said evidence at the murder scene and in the car should help police find the trio even though they have fled the area.

Davis said the three broke into the Hyde Park Avenue house - which has been vacant for about a year - then called a local Domino's for a pizza. When the delivery man, not identified pending notification of his next of kind, arrived, they attacked and killed him.

Davis said somebody who had seen initial media reports about his Subaru wagon noticed it in the church parking lot and called police around 8:30 a.m.

Stolen car in church parking lot

You can watch it, all 15 minutes of it.

Boston Police report arresting a Roslindale man last night after they watched him start up a Mercedes-Benz that had been reported stolen in Cambridge during a vicious carjacking the day before.