Roslindale

Boston Police report they are looking for somebody who might be responsible for at least three break-ins at Roslindale shops of late. They're looking for somebody like this:

Light or white skin, about 6 feet tall, heavy build, with glasses, slight beard and moustache, hooded sweatshirt, Red Sox cap and black gloves.

Boston Police report detectives are considering bringing charges against a Roslindale mother whose 6-year-old son they say set the house on fire while playing with matches yesterday afternoon.

Police say the boy was alone with his 8-year-old cousin when he started the fire on June Street around 3 p.m. Both children fled the house and were taken to Children's Hospital but were soon released, police say, addng the mother's two other kids were in school at the time of the blaze.

Police say they have referred the case to DSS while Area E-5 detectives continue to investigate.

A fire that broke out around 3 p.m. pretty much gutted half of a two-family house at 46 June St. off Blue Ledge Drive.

Firefighters snaked hoses from the Beech Street side of the street down a short dropoff to the house.

Although the fire appeared contained to just one unit, Boston TV stations dispatched helicopters and cameramen to the normally quiet street.

State Sen. Marian Walsh is resigning. More to come, but who'll run for her seat? Tobin? Rush, Consalvo? That guy who boycotted Gary's Liquors?

The Globe reports Boston will spend $33 million in federal stimulus funds for the Washington-Beech renovation project, which due to begin this spring anyway (the BHA had started moving people out last year as it gets ready to tear the whole place down and replace it with townhouses and a single large apartment building). So does this mean the city will spend the $33-million portion of the money it had already set aside for the project on something else?

Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day trash day up on Grew Hill. Except, apparently, today, where the streets are still lined with trash barrels and bags. The Mayor's Hotline says they're running behind and whatever the crews don't get to tonight, they'll swing by tomorrow to pick up.

A Washington-Beech resident was arrested on charges of stabbing somebody on Washington Street and being a crack dealer on Feb. 25, Wicked Local Roslindale reports.

Tameka A. Evans was arrested after police responded to a stabbing at 4446 Washington St. (between Cornell and Wellsmere). The location is an easy walk from Haydn Street, where a 15-year-old allegedly tried to gun down another teen early Monday.

Meanwhile, the site also reports a man who'd just bought a six-pack from Murphy's Liquors, 4276 Washington St. up near Roslindale Square, was mugged at gunpoint by who took all his money, but not his beer, on Feb. 28.

Innocent, etc.

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old from Hyde Park on charges he shot an 18-year-old early Monday morning on Haydn Street.

The teenager, too young to be identified, was arrested this afternoon and charged with assault with intent to murder and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. Police say information from both the victim - who was taken to Brigham and Women's in critical condition - and nearby residents helped lead them to the alleged gunner.

Some of those neighbors say they have had enough of gun violence along Washington Street and are now planning to move.

Greetings from Roslindale.

Corey Legere, 24, of Weymouth, was indicted today on a variety of charges related to an accident at 1434 Centre St. last Oct. 22 in which a man crossing the street was thrown in the air and put into a coma from which he has never recovered, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more

The Square Corner Cafe on Washington Street has finally submitted to its destiny and started opening at 8 a.m. (9 a.m. on weekends) to serve breakfast. If you've actually had breakfast there (as opposed to just being some busybody blogger walking over to Staples who noticed the change in hours), how was it?

Here's a benefit of sudden joblessness: When an Amnesty International canvasser rings your door, you can say "Sorry, I don't have any money, I just got laid off" without feeling guilty and that's the end of the conversation.

Side note: This is the first time we've ever had an Amnesty International canvasser on our block up here in the middle of nowhere the far end of Roslindale. Normally, all we get are Jehovah's Witnesses, vinyl-siding salesmen and neighbor kids selling chocolate bars for school. He seemed a rather cheery sort and had a British accent, so I wonder if he got lost on the way to JP.

BUTV interviews Gregory Lahan, owner of Sullivan's Pharmacy, who says that while he'll miss the income from cigarettes under the city's new ban on coffin-nail sales in pharmacies, he acknowledges that it's hard to fill a heart-medication prescription for a customer and then sell her some smokes:

ParkwayBoston reports two drag racers crashed into a snowbank around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, forcing authorities to close the parkway near Vincent Road while EMTs hauled away people and tow trucks hauled away what was left of their cars.

Wicked Local Roslindale reports six teens were taken away with minor injuries.

Wicked Local Roslindale reports that after school on Jan. 29, police responded to Sheldon Street in Roslindale to find 50 students crowded together. They eventually found one kid in a blood-soaked shirt:

Officers noticed several abrasions to the boy's face, arms, torso and shoulders, and several imprints on his body looked like imprints of sneaker heels.

Two alleged pint-size punks were arrested on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. An ambulance was summoned to bring the victim to Children's Hospital for observation.

On Feb. 2, the paper continues, a student who refused to stop listening to his iPod during class went "out of control" when an officer stationed at the school (yes, police officers are stationed at a middle school) tried to take the iPod away until the end of the school day.

Mini-van turning onto Beech from Washington in Roslindale this morning, long after the weekend snows had ended.

That was the reading from the thermometer on our back deck around 8 a.m. up here in the Clarendon Hills along the Roslindale/Hyde Park frontier. It's now up to a balmy 2 degrees.

The signs were taped all over the windows at Jax in Roslindale Square today. Even the Obama sweatshirts were marked down, to just $6. What will tomorrow bring for Corinth Street in Roslindale Square?