Roslindale

Spring Seedling Sale May 19th and 20th 9am-3pm
Wake up the Farm Pancake Breakfast May 19th 9am-11am

Join us to celebrate the start of the 2012 season. Enjoy delicious pancakes with friends and stock up on seedlings for your home garden.

Jason, who blogs about rides on the T, reviews the 30 bus, which runs between Mattapan Square and Forest Hills via Roslindale Square:

In contrast to the 28 and 31, the 30 route itself is quite tranquil serving a mainly residential slice of western Mattapan and northern Roslindale, the parts of Boston no typical tourist would think could exist within Boston city limits. It also may be the only MBTA bus route that gets to cut through a cemetery which when coupled with the High Speed Line creates a double play of cemetery-cutting. ... The 30 keeps quiet and does its job and tries to not let delays get in its way.

Can the City that Always Sleeps deal with burgers at 4 a.m.?

The owners of the Burger King at 4594 Washington St. in Roslindale go before the Boston Licensing Board next week with a request to stay open 24 hours a day.

The burger place is currently licensed for operation between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. It sits in the council district represented by Rob Consalvo, who has long resisted attempts to make his part of Boston less sleepy.

The licensing-board hearing begins at 10 a.m. in the board's eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.

NOTE: Wicked Local Roslindale reports an owner told resident he would not seek to open 24 hours a day based on their objections. It's possible he could show up next week and withdraw the request for 24-hour service.

An Arizona woman who goes by Sheila Aliens posted this audio of a BPD dispatcher sending officers out to investigate Sunday's mystery boom in Roslindale.

Ed. note: I listened to the calls live so, yeah, these are, in fact, what the scanner sounded like that night, except without all the annoying non-Roslindale traffic.

Boston Police making a traffic stop yesterday wound up recovering 10 one-kilo blocks of cocaine from a hidden compartment in a mini-van, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The driver of the van, Elvyn Rafael Garcia, 31, of Hyde Park Avenue, was ordered held in lieu of $30,000 bail at his arraignment in Roxbury District Court, according to the DA's office, which had requested bail of $1 million.

For the second time in three nights, police are investigating a mystery explosion in the area of Zeller Street.

"Seriously! It just happened again! A huge blast in Rozzie," Todd Johnson reported shortly before 9 p.m. Mike Flynn reports he heard it at Centre and Fletcher, a few blocks away.

David reported, "I saw red sparks in the air near Ardale & Selwyn, looked like a firework and sounded like it too." Evan Allen reports, "Just spoke with BPD, looks like it was just fireworks."

Boston firefighters and police rushed to 52 Zeller St. tonight after residents reported a flash and a loud boom. But as Jonathan Bohan reports, after walking over there:

People out looking, cops have no idea what it was, something burning, nothing visible.

Should you wish to adjust your schedule for Friday morning, Scott Brown will be ambling about the Square around 10 a.m., going into stores (whose owners have already been asked if that's OK), shaking hands, getting the lay of the land, doing whatever it is senators do when they visit the hustings.

Stony Brook fire from Buck Hill in the Blue Hills. Photo by Boston Strolls.

Boston firefighters are battling a brush fire in the forest, near where it runs along the George Wright Golf Course. So far, the smoke is white, not like the dark stuff from yesterday.

The fire marks the trifecta of Boston brush fires - Stony Brook, the Fens and Dorchester Lower Mills along the Neponset.

A man who snuck back into the US after being deported for a cocaine-trafficking plea will get a new trial because his original lawyer blew it by telling him he probably wouldn't be deported if he pleaded guilty.

Mayor Menino and City Councilor Rob Consalvo visited Adams Park this morning to discuss the city's plans for capital spending.

In Roslindale, they said, Adams Park will get a permanent bandstand and new paths, while the Flaherty Pool will get renovations that will include the ability to open the pool up in the summer to a new patio, turning it into the city's first public indoor/outdoor pool. The Roslindale BPL, meanwhile, gets money for a study to plan for future renovations, such as a meeting room and blinds for its unique curved windows that can let in some light without blinding patrons. People who drive to the library will get a smoother ride after Cummins Highway is repaved later this year.

The announcements are part of a $200-million capital plan for the coming fiscal year that will also see Almont Park in Mattapan get a new artificial-turf football field and East Boston a whole new library to replace its current two small branches.

For the first time in several years, crime rates are increasing in the police districts that cover West Roxbury, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain, led mainly be dramatic increases in the numbers of burglaries and larcenies, according to statistics released yesterday by Boston Police.

Although districts E-5 (West Roxbury and Roslindale) and E-13 (Jamaica Plain) remain among the safest in the city, the increases for the period between Jan. 1 and April 17 when compared to last year are striking. In E-5, the total number of burglaries and attempted burglaries jumped from 26 to 64; the number of larcenies from 96 to 129. In E-13, burglaries and attempted burglaries increased from 46 to 57 and the number of larcenies from 170 to 210. Also in E-13, the number of robberies is up, from 29 to 38 (in E-5, they increased from 14 to 17).

District C-6 (South Boston and Columbia Point) also saw a dramatic jump in burglaries and attempted burglaries, from 43 to 65, but a decrease in larcenies (319 to 254).

Dave Atkins watched members of St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church hold its Great and Holy Friday Procession of the Holy Sepulcher tonight from the church to Fallon Field.

Dave Atkins was at the Burger King on Washington Street in Roslindale around 6:30 this evening when a car outside started burning. Firefighters arrived a couple of moments after he took this photo to extinguish the flames.

Packed and ready to go: Seized heroin on seized scale.

Boston Police report charging a Roslindale man as a heroin dealer in a raid on his apartment Tuesday afternoon.

Roslindale suspect

Boston Police report the Home Market, 165 Belgrade Ave., was held up around 8:30 p.m. yesterday by the guy pictured above.

According to police, he entered the store, showed a knife, took money out of the register, then ran out.

He's described as a white Hispanic male in his 20s, 6' tall and wearing a black leather coat, a dark hoodie and a dark knit cap.

Joe Battenfeld tweets police are on Peters Hill by Bussey Street, where a body was found on a large rock tonight.

UPDATE: O'Ryan Johnson tweets it was an elderly male who suddenly died; police are not treating the death as suspicious.

Dana Reichman reports she was surprised to turn an aisle at the Stop & Shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale this morning to see a decent supply of Passover goods. She reports the stuff wasn't flying off the shelves, but it was only 7 a.m.

Updated Thursday, 12:20 p.m.

Boston Police report a 16-year-old was attacked by four other teens, one armed with a hammer, around 4 p.m.

The victim managed to get himself to Faulkner Hospital, from which he was then transported to Brigham and Women's Hospital in serious condition. Police say he is expected to survive.

Although four teens - one 17 and three 16 - were detained for questioning at Canterbury and Rowe streets, they were released, police say, adding:

District E-18 detectives continue to actively investigate this incident. ... The preliminary investigation indicates that this incident was an altercation among individuals known to one another.

Boston Police say an attempt to avenge a grabbed woman in a Roslindale restaurant ended when the alleged grabber's friend ran over one of his attackers - three times. At a Boston Licensing Board hearing this morning, police detectives described the incident at Bel Lounge on Washington Street shortly after 2 a.m. on Dec. 18:

Ed Grzyb, who took this photo (along with this one showing skid marks). Channel 5 reports the collision may have started when a tire on the police cruiser blew out.

On Saturday, Melissa Gibson spotted this dude at Jackson Square on the Orange Line with rapper Rick Ross's visage shaved into his hair. She reports "Phill da Barber" in Roslindale did the honors.

Anybody know where in Roslindale Phill strops his razor?

Copyright Melissa Gibson. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

They're peeping away at the George Wright Golf Course and Stony Brook Reservation tonight.

At least nobody seemed to be hurt when an inbound 34E bus and an Escalade collided at the entrance to the Burger King and CVS on Washington Street in Roslindale around 10 a.m. today.