Roslindale

Dan Farnkoff passes along this photo of a defaced Yoon sign on Poplar Street in Roslindale.

Yeah, it's just the big microwave tower behind the Dunkin' Donuts and soon-to-be CVS at Washington Street and the West Roxbury Parkway in Roslindale. What's unusual about the photo is that I was basically right across the street from it when I took it, around 4:30 p.m., when the fog was dropping out of the sky like an unraveling roll of cotton gauze.

The Boston Licensing Board holds a hearing on Wednesday, July 29 to decide whether to let Mandarin House, 633 Hyde Park Ave. stay open until 1 a.m., Monday through Saturday (currently, it closes at 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday and midnight on Friday and Saturday).

Has anybody ever tried it? I have to admit we don't tend to stray from Golden House on Washington Street.

Just spotted in our backyard (and, yes, of course, I happen to have my camera handy when I work on the porch). Since I grew up in a place where the wildlife seemed to consist of pigeons, squirrels and mice, naturally, I have no clue what it is.

UPDATE: It's a Baltimore Oriole (scouting out the area while the Sox play the Bluejays?).

Yelp Boston thinks Allston/Brighton, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain and Roslindale are "beyond city limits!" Maybe it's time to break down and actually hire editors from the area? Nah.

Via Bostonist.

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. Read more

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. Read more

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.

Wicked Local Roslindale reports police had to be called to break up 250 or so of the pride of Washington Irving Middle School, who'd gathered at Healy Field one recent day to watch a couple of students fight. The kids scattered when the cops showed up - stopping traffic as they streamed away - although the two pint-size pugilists kept at it even as the cops moved in.

Penny Cherubino ventures south to Rozzie Square for the Saturday Farmers' Market, loves what she sees, vows to return to explore the rest of the village.

UPDATE: One commenter says it'll be in the strip mall on American Legion Highway, the one by all the flower places and across from the KFC, not the one with the Stop & Shop.

Turns out that a couple months ago, the fried-chicken chain posted a Monster.com ad that started:

Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits with over 1600 restaurants nationwide is looking for experienced management for its newest restaurant opening in Roslindale ...

Then, earlier today, Toyuwa Newton tweeted:

Can someone tell me why my people are so excited about a Popeye's fried chicken joint opening up in Roslindale?

Anybody know where? The new old Stop & Shop mall on American Legion?

The Boston Public Health Commission announced today it's shutting the Russell Elementary School in Dorchester, the Sumner in Roslindale and the Tobin in Roxbury due to high absenteeism that could be linked to swine flu.

All three schools will be shut effective tomorrow through Thursday, June 18.

That makes 17 public and private schools in Boston shut for a week due to H1N1. The Russell is on the same block as a Catholic school that was ordered shut yesterday, according to the Dorchester Reporter.

At the Russell, 81 of 370 students were out sick today; at the Sumner, 159 out of 501 and at the Tobin, 113 out of 428. All three schools also reported heavy absence rates among employees and "a significant number" of students who left school during the day with flu-like symptoms.

Awful service and Florida-size roaches out on the patio helped ensure that Tammy will not be returning to the Roslindale Square restaurant any time soon.

Boston Public Schools announce new principals for the coming school year, including a new principal for Roslindale's Washington Irving Middle School:

Arthur Unobskey, Principal
Arthur Unobskey is currently the principal of the Concord Middle School, but has a long career with the Boston public schools. Before arriving in Concord, Unobskey worked at the Dearborn Middle School as the director of instruction and at English High School as the Humanities Program director, school-wide writing coordinator and teacher. Unobskey holds a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a master's degree from Brown University.

Click on the Irving Middle School link below to see why this made both my wife and I go "Huh!"

In other principal news, Sandra Mitchell-Woods, principal of the Nathan Hale Elementary School in Roxbury, was named Massachusetts Elementary School Principal of the Year.

I'm sitting here in Select Cafe (the old Emack and Bolio's) in Roslindale Square, and their stereo is playing "O Come, All Ye Faithful."

Everybody got out OK, however, when 116 Farquhar St. caught fire a little before 1 a.m.