Yesterday, a trucker delivered this oversize-load sized steel beam to Robert Street in Roslindale Square so that, starting at 4 a.m. on Saturday, workers can begin to replace the bridge that now carries the Needham Line over the street. The bridge dates to 1898.
Several hundred houses and businesses in each neighborhood lost their power tonight. Read more.
Jillian Domenici reports on an incident this morning that shows one parenting advantage of raising a kid with a decided Boston accent: Read more.
Update, Friday morning: And just like that, the sign is covered over again.
For several decades now, the space next to the convenience store on Washington Street across from Washington-Beech has been a laundromat. It's getting remodeled, though, and today it returned to its days in the 1960s and early 1970s, when it was a discount clothing store, with a '60s-style sign that was never taken down, just boarded over. Read more.
Napper Tandy's on Washington Street in Roslindale Square reports it's getting ready to re-open after months with its doors shut due to Covid-19 - and it's looking to hire "bartenders, servers, cooks, and dishwashers."
Driver managed to flip his car at South Street and Taft Hill Terrace in Roslindale Square early this morning. No injuries.
A Dallas developer says it will soon file plans to build 270 apartments in nine low-slung buildings on the Hyde Park side of the Stop & Shop/Walgreens strip mall on American Legion Highway. Read more.
The City Council yesterday approved a request by Councilor Ricardo Arroyo (Roslindale, Hyde Park, Mattapan) to look into how to get the city to build dog parks south of the Fenway, where he said dog-owning residents deserve the same facilities as those in the South End, the North End, Dorchester and other neighborhoods that already have dog parks. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports that a fire that broke out around midnight at 17 Murray Hill Rd. off Washington Street in Roslindale Square caused an estimated $400,000 in damage.
There were no injuries, the department says.
WHDH reports on the crash at 575 Poplar St., behind the George Wright golf course, around 11 p.m. on Thursday.
A roving UHub photographer was hiking through the Roslindale side of Stony Brook Reservation with his family yesterday when they came across these seemingly fresh Charlotte Golar Richie signs just lying in the snow. She ran in 2013, so who's been sitting on these signs for eight years (both signs and tarp look pretty fresh) and suddenly decided they had to get rid of them and the best way to do that was dump them in the woods?
Mark Smith took in the beautiful winter morning and a cross-country skier also enjoying the day, at the George Wright Golf Course on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line.
The owner of Silva's Brazilian Market on Belgrade Avenue at Walworth Street wants to sell the shop and its beer and wine license to Lorenzo Mercado, who is proposing to re-open it as the Punta Cana Beer & Wine Market, with a closing time of 11 p.m.
The proposed license transfer goes before the Boston Licensing Board on Wednesday, in hearings that begin at 1 p.m.
SWAT unit at a Roslindale raid this morning. Photo by Live Boston.
Police in Boston, Quincy, Norwood and Randolph, with help from State Police and US marshals raided several locations in raids that kicked off at 5:45 a.m. in search of guns and drugs as a followup to arrests and gun seizures in a Dorchester park last November. Read more.
Grace Holley posed a question yesterday:
You’re on a snow walk in the Arboretum w your pup and you turn the corner and see this 15-20 ft away and it starts walking toward you...what do you do?
Meanwhile, Blvckmachina recorded about seven coyotes in his yard on Glenellen Road in West Roxbury around 4:50 a.m. on Sunday: Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 91 Metropolitan Ave., at Kittredge Street, in Roslindale, for a second-floor fire around 10:15 p.m. Firefighters quickly knocked down the fire, but seven residents were displaced.
The Ward 19 Democratic Committee (Jamaica Plain and Roslindale) will host a Web information session at 5 p.m. on Thursday. Dr. Lisa Cosimi and Dr. David Duong of Brigham and Women's Hospital will answer questions on vaccine development, current eligibility for the shots and local access to the vaccines. Zoom link.
A city parks manager said yesterday that Boston is looking at how to put a dog park in every neighborhood - potentially good news for residents in the city's southern half, who currently have none and who have been repeatedly rebuffed by state officials on the large expanses of state parkland in the area. Read more.
Evan Judd had a great seat for this morning's sunrise over Roslindale.
Joe Kidson watched the sun come up over Cohasset harbor: Read more.
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