The new playground at Millennium Park in West Roxbury had its gates swung open for kids today (there'll be an official ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. on June 10).
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By adamg - 5/22/23 - 3:10 pm
Mayor Wu and her transportation chief today announced new measures to make Boston streets safer - including a revival of plans to turn Centre Street between the Holy Name Rotary and Spring Street in West Roxbury into a three-lane road with dedicated turn lanes, pedestrian islands and signal changes aimed at slowing down drivers and giving pedestrians better odds of being able to get from one side of the street to the other. Read more.
By adamg - 5/22/23 - 9:34 am
Ted Folkman was not expecting to get yelled at just for walking into the West Roxbury Roche Bros. yesterday, but reports one of the omnipresent signature collectors spewed him with bile when he refused to sign a petition for somebody he'd never heard of trying to get on the ballot for city councilor at large: Read more
By adamg - 5/21/23 - 9:08 pm
Mary Ellen reports spotting an otter in the marsh/pond in between VFW Parkway and the old West Roxbury Education Complex today - and that she watched it eat a frog.
By adamg - 5/20/23 - 9:45 am
Update, 5/30: Restaurant allowed to re-open.
A city health inspector yesterday shut Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, for a variety of violations, including hot foods not being kept hot enough, cold items not being kept cold enough, employees not following basic sanitary practices and rodent droppings. Read more.
By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:43 pm
Marino's goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to add beer and wine to its offerings at its store at Centre and Park streets in West Roxbury. Read more.
By Oliver Blake - 5/18/23 - 4:01 pm
Imagine this as an ice-cream stand and coffee house.
DCR has hired a landscape architect to draw up possible plans for returning Havey Beach, along the Charles River across from the VA Hospital in West Roxbury, into a place where people would actually want to go again. Read more.
By adamg - 5/16/23 - 2:13 pm
Mary Ellen watched this beaver at Cow Island Pond (the part of the Charles off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury) make several trips with fresh greens the other day - so maybe bringing lunch home for the kids, rather than doing construction.
By adamg - 5/16/23 - 11:03 am
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department plans to clean up the banks of the Charles River at Millennium Park by trying to rid the area of Japanese knotweed and oriental bittersweet and by removing various metal tanks and tubes that have popped up from the park's previous life as the Gardner Street city landfill. Read more.
By adamg - 5/10/23 - 12:30 pm
The new playground at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, delayed by Covid-related supply-chain shortages (it's not like you can just buy large-scale playground equipment at the Target), could be open by Memorial Day, but definitely no later than 9:30 a.m. on June 10, when Boston Parks and Recreation is planning a formal ribbon cutting, according to project manager Lauren Bryant.
By adamg - 5/9/23 - 8:49 am
Mary Ellen shows how somebody had the sunset well in hand yesterday at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
The Natiional Weather Service reports the haze is from forest fires a bit west of Worcester - in Alberta. At 8:36 this morning, the GOES-East satellite captured the smoke stream: Read more.
By adamg - 5/7/23 - 9:15 pm
Stanley Staco reports:
Shoplifter at Star Market made her escape in a Blue Tesla, on Spring St, BPD enrt to write report #147pm
No word if she made off with bags of shrimp.
By adamg - 5/7/23 - 1:57 pm
Live Boston reports Boston firefighters made quick work of a fire at 470 Lagrange St., just north of the train bridge, this morning. No injuries reported.
By adamg - 5/5/23 - 9:45 pm
Yeah, fun times.
About that. Mayor Wu said the problems can be buffed right out and the school re-opened as a new high school. Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/23 - 10:03 am
Mary Ellen spotted this blue gray gnatcatcher at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
By adamg - 5/2/23 - 9:45 pm
Lisa Kashinsky reports that William MacGregor has won the special Democratic primary in the 10th Suffolk District (West Roxbury, Roslindale, Jamaica Plain and South Brookline) over Robert Orthman and Celia Segel, which means he will likely succeed former state Rep. Ed Coppinger since there are no Republican or other candidates for the final later this month.
By adamg - 5/1/23 - 11:45 am
Democratic voters in the 10th Suffolk state representative's district (West Roxbury and parts of Roslindale, Jamaica Plain and South Brookline) vote tomorrow in a special primary to determine who gets on the ballot later this month, but since there are no Republican or independents running, the winner will most likely replace Ed Coppinger, who resigned from the seat earlier this year. Read more.
By adamg - 4/29/23 - 8:50 pm
Tim West took in the annual Shamrock Shootout on Temple Street in West Roxbury, which was turned into 16 street-hockey rinks for matches involving hundreds of kids.
By adamg - 4/25/23 - 10:09 pm
Mary Ellen watched and listened to a yellow warbler singing today at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 4/21/23 - 11:42 am
MacGregor, Orthman, Segel.
A generally genial online forum for the three candidates running for the state representative's seat that Ed Coppinger quit briefly turned tense last night over the West Roxbury hot-button of the fenced off field of dirt at Centre and Park streets. Read more.
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