It's cool that American Legion Highway is now all decked out with bike-lane markings. But driving from Roslindale to Dorchester yesterday, I spotted four different kinds of bike lanes: Read more
And got me to roll down my window to tell me he could take care of the scratches on my bumper:
Dude, you might help your case by not driving around in an old Accord that looks like it's held together with Bondo and three different shades of green paint applied by a kindergartener.
Wayne Braverman reports the Greek Spirit of Boston Association and Roslindale Clean & Green will be rededicating Alexander the Great Park in Roslindale Square on May 17 at noon, in honor of some new landscaping.
Ed. question: Is Alexander the Great Park the smallest park in the city of Boston?
Boston Police credit an alert resident for helping them arrest a couple of kids on housebreaking charges on Glendower Road after school yesterday.
Police say a neighbor called police around 3 p.m. after observing the two in the back of 60 Glendower Rd. trying to pry open a rear window. The window apparently proved too tough for them, police say, and so they traipsed over to 62 Glendower, where officers found them trying to get into the house by prying open both a window and a door:
The suspects were confronted and two sets of rubber gloves were observed at their feet. One of the suspects stated, 'They're so we don't leave our prints.'"
The alleged aspiring yeggs, 14 and 15 and both from Roslindale, were arrested on charges of breaking and entering a dwelling house by force in the daytime.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today agreed with Angela Vazquez's attorney that she should not serve jail time for killing her daughter, 13, and son, 10, because she "suffered from a mental disease or defect at the time she committed the act," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
However, Vazquez could still be locked up in a psychiatric facility, following a 40-day evaluation, the DA's office says.
Police found the decaying bodies of her two children on July 29, 2007. Officials say they could not determine the exact cause of death because their bodies had badly decomposed by the time they were found in her Maynard Road home, but that evidence and witnesses proved she killed them.
Barely two weeks after Boston Police began warning of robberies by fake BWSC workers in Roslindale and Hyde Park, Boston Police inform us that real BWSC contractors will be out in the area looking for illegal connections to storm drains.
Police say the real workers will carry photo IDs with the Commission logo and the logo of the firms they work for: CH2MHILL, Stacey DePasquale Engineering and National Water Main Cleaning. Police add:
This program will include inspection of storm drain outfalls and manholes in the street. If evidence of sewage is found in a storm drain, the sewer service connections to buildings adjacent to the storm drain will be dye tested. If this testing needs to be done, owners and occupants of the buildings will be notified.
And police continue that if somebody asks to check your pipes, call 911 and have an officer come down and have a chat with him first.
Of course, I had to rush home to dish up this news: Roslindale Square is getting another ice-cream place. Jimmies, opening soon on Corinth Street, next to Imperial Kitchen, will also serve food on buns.
Currently, Roslindale residents who need ice cream have to travel down to Belgrade for Select Cafe, the former Emack and Bolios. The cafe, which is more of a coffeehouse that serves ice cream, is currently redecorating a bit - and no longer requires people to ask for a key at the counter for the restroom.
A yelling man, a call to 911 and some "initial miscommunication" turned a quiet Roslindale side street into a hostage-negotiation scene early this afternoon, with armor-clad SWAT cops encircling a house, hostage negotiators using a loudspeaker to try to get the guy inside to pick up his phone so they could talk to him, ambulance crews at the ready and anxious neighbors watching from behind police tape.
In the end, however, police said the June Street resident simply didn't want to talk to anybody. And since he hadn't done anything wrong, after 2 1/2 hours, police packed up and left him alone.
Boston Police report a trio of robbers with a fake "Boston Water Department" badge ganged up on one elderly couple in Roslindale today:
Meanwhile, upstairs, a second suspect entered the house and asked the female victim to go into the kitchen and turn on the faucet. As she began questioning the second suspect, she heard a noise coming from her bedroom which was adjacent to the kitchen and she observed a third suspect standing in her bedroom doorway. She then told the two suspects to leave and that she was going to call the police. As she picked up the phone one of the suspects yanked the phone cord out of the receiver.
Hearing the commotion upstairs, her husband told the suspect to leave and began pushing the suspect up the stairs. Upon reaching the top of the stairs, all the suspects fled out of the house.
The perps are described as three white Hispanic men in their 30s. One is about 6 feet tall, 175 pounds, medium build and wearing glasses and a tan jacket. The others are about 5'9" - with one of them having a mustache and beard and a heavy build.
If you want napkins at the Burger King on Washington Street, you have to ask at the counter now. Seems too many people were asking for bags to go with their meals, then stealing all the napkins from the dispensers by the soda machines.
Because of its expansion through annexation and land reclamation, and because of the vast differences in size between its neighborhoods, making a web-ready neighborhood map of Boston is extremely difficult. Most online neighborhood maps currently available are simple line drawings or text paste-overs.
I've attempted to solve both these problems by creating a neighborhood map of Boston using Google Maps. It overlays the neighborhood boundaries onto Google's existing maps, and scales easily in and out. Read more
What a gouda idea: Brie the family over to the Boston Cheese Cellar on Birch Street in the Square tomorrow (Saturday, March 28), between noon and 4 p.m. for free cheesy comestibles, Wicked Local Roslindale reports.
The West Roxbury/JP city councilor tells David Bernstein he's running for re-election, rather than going for Marian Walsh's seat or an at-large council seat.
When a bag full of drugs and cash came flying out of a third-floor Roslindale apartment yesterday, officers attempting to serve a warrant at another apartment quickly determined somebody might not be happy to see them - especially when they then saw a man race out of the apartment in just his pajamas.
According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, Luis Portalatin, 28, of Roslindale, failed to elude police as he ran from his Paine Street apartment shortly after 9 a.m.:
Portalatin tried to flee the area, making his way over several fences and through neighboring yards despite his lack of footwear. Officers took him into custody on American Legion Highway.
Police found 452.18 grams of heroin and 182.86 grams of cocaine in 24 bags of various sizes, along with $15,890 in bundled cash in the bag Portalatin allegedly tossed out the window, the DA's office says. He was arraigned this morning on drug-trafficking charges in West Roxbury District Court.
"He wasn't the one the officers were looking for, but they arrested him just the same," DA Dan Conley said.
ParkwayBoston reports on a different kind of photo exhibit in Roslindale Square: Photos that show "Roslindale Revitalization Through Business to Business Partnerships." The photos, by local photographer Bob Ward, are hanging through May 31 at the A. Boschetto Bakery on Washington Street.
Bonus Rozzie Easter Egg: In the first half-second or so of the video, right after the music starts, there's a flash of something that's no longer there (hint: It's on the right).
Police say the real workers will carry photo IDs with the Commission logo and the logo of the firms they work for: CH2MHILL, Stacey DePasquale Engineering and National Water Main Cleaning. Police add:
When a bag full of drugs and cash came flying out of a third-floor Roslindale apartment yesterday, officers attempting to serve a warrant at another apartment quickly determined somebody might not be happy to see them - especially when they then saw a man race out of the apartment in just his pajamas.
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