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While Bateman Street in Roslindale (above) was down to bare pavement this afternoon, Belmont Street in Charlestown looked like it had been transported to Hoth:

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Jason Laramie of Roslindale wasn't about to let a few flakes - or his wife - keep him from grilling up some burgers and brats tonight.

SourceBoston Police today identified the woman shot to death on Tuesday at 28 Fawndale Rd. as Carly Jones, 32.

She was Boston's third murder victim of the year.

Police say they are continuing to investigate her murder.

Anybody with information can contact the BPD homicide unit at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

Between the substation and the office building where the gas station used to be.

Roslindale Village Main Street and Historic Boston showed off their latest plans for the old trolley substation the other night. More than 300 people attended and heard plans to turn the substation into a restaurant and to tear down the funeral home next door and build 40 housing units there and atop part of the funeral home's parking lot on Cummins Highway.

Possible renderings and site plans (subject to BRA review) | Basic project background

View from far side of Adams Park. Hey, when did they decide to take the fences out?

Police are looking for a light-skinned Hispanic man in his 40s for a holdup at the Bank of America branch, 29 Corinth St., around 1:45 p.m. The man was about 6' and wore what appeared to be prescription glasses and a gray sweatshirt. He fled on foot.

Victim identified: Carly Jones.

Boston Police report a 34-year-old woman was found shot to death around 7 p.m. at 28 Fawndale Rd.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police say. She is Boston's third murder victim this month.

The triple decker is a couple blocks from the Archdale project, where a man was shot to death on Christmas.

Photo: BPD superintendent talking to Fawndale residents.

MIT's Center for Civic Media has started analyzing Globe datelines and presents some preliminary results.

H/t Bostonography.

Boston Police report Officer Henderson Parker was arrested late Sunday night after a woman told police he'd raped her at a Roslindale residence.

Parker, 45, has been suspended with pay and had his service firearm confiscated pending the outcome of the case against him.

Parker has been an officer for 18 years. The Globe reports Parker was suspended for 30 days in 2002 following "a physical confrontation of a domestic nature that resulted in injuries."

Parker lives in Roslindale himself; authorities declined to say if the alleged rape happened at his home.

Parker was arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court. Prosecutors asked for bail of $2,500 on the charges of indecent assault and battery and rape; a judge set bail at $1,000, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. He is next due in court Feb. 22.

Innocent, etc.

Roslindale Patch reports men from Waltham and Needham were arrested on Jan. 4 at Washington and Rosecliff streets on heroin-distribution charges. They were caught by officers from the E-5 drug-control unit, who have apparently had their eye on the intersection for awhile.

Delicias Dominicanas is moving kitty-corner across Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street into the former Maggie Mae's bar. Its old space is being taken over by a Haitian restaurant, Le Lambi.

A big sign in the window at the late Cafe Rialto on Washington Street now advertises the impending arrival of an outpost of Dorchester's Shanti.

Boston Police report three residential break-ins Wednesday and Thursday along the Mattapan/Hyde Park line and in Roslindale:

MBTA and Boston police are investigating whether a woman struck by some sort of pellet around 1:45 p.m. today on Washington Street near Arboretum Road was shot by the same people who shot at an inbound 35 bus in the same area last night.

MBTA Transit Police report the driver of the bus last night "observed two individuals standing in a driveway who appeared to be holding a firearm," as the bus passed Archdale Road on its way to Forest Hills.

Police say two of the buses windows were "intact but completely fractured" after apparently being shot at with "an air powered BB gun."

MBTA and Boston police are investigating an incident around 9:40 p.m. on Washington Street near Arboretum Road, in which two windows on a bus suffered damage from pellets.

SATURDAY MORNING UPDATE: Fire must've done some major damage. A resident of the area around Wood Avenue in Hyde Park reports NStar told her power wouldn't be restored until 2 p.m.

A manhole on Cummins Highway near the Stop & Shop entrance burst into flames around 10:15 p.m., taking down with it power along Hyde Park Avenue between roughly Cummins Highway and American Legion Highway.

Friends are identifying the man fatally shot in the head Christmas night in front of 20 Brookway Terrace in Roslindale as Jarvis Lamont "Bam" Gilmore, 22.

Gilmore was a resident of the building in the Archdale housing project and a 2008 graduate of West Roxbury High School.

Police have yet to make an arrest. Anybody with information can contact the homicide unit at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

Brian D'Amico and Scott Eisen report the man was shot in the head around 8:30 p.m. at 20 Brookway Terrace in the Archdale project. Boston Police report the victim was in his 20s, was found outside the building and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Archdale was the scene of a double shooting that left one dead in June, 2011, followed by a possibly related double murder a few weeks later nearby on Washington Street. Boston Police only recently ended a 24-hour vigil outside that location.

The Boston Fire Department reports two 14-year-olds were nabbed today on charges they kept pulling the alarm at the same fire box at Rowe Street and Brown Avenue.

Members of the BFD Fire Investigation Unit had this location under surveillance from time to time. This afternoon at 2:00 pm they observed 2 teenagers pulling the box. They were apprehended. They were 14 years old. The two teens will be summoned before a Clerk Magistrate for further action. They were not placed under arrest.

Milton suspect.

UPDATED throughout the day.

A woman who robbed a bank in Milton Lower Mills on Monday may have struck again in Roslindale, West Roxbury and Beacon Hill today - and may have been foiled in Jamaica Plain by a bank employee who began giving her the eye. She apparently traveled from one bank to the next by MBTA bus.

AlertNewEngland reports reports the black woman dressed all in black with a sparkly black headband first struck a bank on Corinth Street in Roslindale and then another one on Centre Street in West Roxbury in the morning. After she left the Centre Street bank, she was spotted getting on an outbound 35 or 36 bus.

The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that Meetinghouse Bank plans to put its second ever branch in one of the spaces at 4238 Washington St. - where Domino's failed to ease the square's critical pizza shortage.

Two non-profits that have been trying to turn the hulking brick husk of an old trolley substation in Roslindale Square into something useable say they now want to buy the funeral home next door for housing.

In an e-mail update this morning, Steve Gag and Stephanie Cave of Roslindale Village Main Street say the FJ Higgins Funeral Home on Washington Street is now up for sale - and that the Higgins family has agreed to give the group and Historic Boston first dibs on the property as the family prepares to move the funeral home to a new location.

Gag and Cave say they don't want to let the property fall into the hands of a developer who would use it for something un-Roslindale-Square-like - such as a fast-food drive-thru:

Boston Police report they are looking for this guy in connection with a Roslindale purse snatching.

Police say the guy is shown after he'd just used a credit card that was in a purse grabbed around 12:15 p.m. on Nov. 29 at 719 South St.

Know him? Call E-5 detectives at 617-343-4595 or 617-343-4328 or contact the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).

The scene at Washington, Walworth and Beech. Photo by Lauren A.

Somebody was stabbed on an outbound 34E bus at Washington and Walworth streets in Roslindale about 12:30 p.m.

Gasner Jean, 49, of no particular address, was arrested on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and is scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in West Roxbury District Court, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo says.

The victim, 24, was taken to Brigham and Women's and is expected to survive, he adds.

Innocent, etc.

Jen Langley tweets:

Just noticed Arbri Cafe is def gone + grand opening sign on Belgrade for Prime Time Pizza.

Over the past few years, that Belgrade Avenue location, near Walworth, has been home to various incarnations of Albanian (and Albanian owned) restaurants.

Why can't we have things like this now?

From a discussion of the Washington Street trolley and the car barns that sat where the Domino's by the parkway is now.