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By adamg - 12/17/21 - 11:52 am
Crash scene

Pickup came from small parking lot behind brick wall. Photo by Live Boston.

Live Boston reports a pickup hit two adults, a child and two infants in strollers next to the municipal lot off Centre and Hastings streets around 11 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/16/21 - 4:17 pm
Headline from 2054

When Gannett shut the Allston/Brighton/West Roxbury/Roslindale Transcript Tab in print a couple weeks back, it said readers could keep getting their news online.

Boy, howdy, they weren't kidding: The site is now providing news that hasn't even happened yet, and won't for another 33 years: Read more.

By adamg - 12/12/21 - 9:33 am
Burned bus

On a walk to the marsh in front of the closed West Roxbury High School this morning, Mary Ellen noticed one of the BPS buses that had been parked there went up in flames at some point since her last visit a couple weeks ago.

By adamg - 12/8/21 - 2:09 pm

A trio of trees at the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury this afternoon.

By adamg - 12/5/21 - 3:01 pm
Announcement of the end of the Transcript Tab

GateHouse's Transcript Tab, smushed together out of two papers in 2019 to serve two sets of Boston neighborhoods with little in common, has sighed its last and quietly disappeared into the pages of history. Read more.

By adamg - 12/4/21 - 10:38 am
Beaver

Mike B. spotted this eager beaver in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning - and some of its toothwork. Read more.

By adamg - 11/19/21 - 11:37 am

A Brookline landlord will soon file formal plans to replace the former Uno headquarters on the road to Millennium Park in West Roxbury with two five-story residential buildings, in a formerly quiet commercial area rapidly turning into an apartment zone. Read more.

By adamg - 11/9/21 - 10:08 am
Mowing at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen watched a city mower doing the fall trim around the hill at the center of Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Although the top of the hill consists mainly of heavily manicured soccer fields, the sides are allowed to grow wild - but not too wild, to block the growth of any trees or other plants whose roots might puncture the liner.

Meanwhile, up in Downtown Crossing, crews were doing their annual post-time-change emptying of planters: Read more.

By adamg - 11/5/21 - 11:11 pm

Local 338 Bagels and Coffee, 1727 Centre Street in West Roxbury, has closed, Neal Doyle reports.

"Hopefully there will be new details soon" on a possible new owner, a sign in the store's door says. Read more.

By adamg - 11/2/21 - 7:49 am
Stupid sign in West Roxbury

Ed. election-night note: Perhaps, based on tonight's results, I should have gone with a headline like "Tiny minority of MAGAts waste money to rent electric signboard in West Roxbury."

Election Day dawned at the Holy Name Rotary in West Roxbury as it always does: With the fence along Holy Name School festooned with candidate signs. This year, they were joined with a highway sign blaring out the phrase the slightly more polite insurrection supporters use instead of "Fuck Joe Biden."

By adamg - 11/1/21 - 11:58 am
Hot yoga studio

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 1524 VFW Parkway around 1 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire at the Pradhana yoga studio.

No injuries were reported; the cause is under investigation.

By adamg - 11/1/21 - 10:36 am
Red-tailed hawk too young to have a red tail

Mary Ellen spotted this young red-tailed hawk at Millennium Park in West Roxbury at dusk yesterday - still too young to have a red tail.

By adamg - 10/28/21 - 2:50 pm

Boston Police report officers last night arrested a local man as a possible suspect in a recent string of West Roxbury car burglaries - with the help of an alert resident who called 911 and a police dog they say sniffed the guy out when he tried to hide in some bushes. Read more.

By adamg - 10/24/21 - 2:03 pm

A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about a Masshole at the rotary where West Roxbury and VFW parkways meet in West Roxbury: Read more.

By adamg - 10/21/21 - 9:32 pm
Sunset over Millennium Park

Mary Ellen watched the sun go down at 5:52 or so today at the athletic fields at what used to be West Roxbury High School.

By adamg - 10/19/21 - 9:01 pm
UHub Copter Recon Unit

From West Roxbury to Mattapan to Dorchester, people were reporting helicopters tonight, and not just your basic news copters, but big-ass, low-flying behemoths that rattled windows and annoyed the more skittish pets.Read more.

By adamg - 10/18/21 - 10:13 pm
Old  New England Telephone and Telegraph manhole cover

If you walk up Washington Street along Stony Brook Reservation in West Roxbury, you might come across this ancient New England Telephone & Telegraph manhole cover in the sidewalk - along with several old Edison Electric Illuminating Co. covers: Read more.

By adamg - 10/18/21 - 9:58 am

As the fallout over her most recent flier (scroll down, past the racist Easter-egg item), District 6 council candidate Mary Tamer today apologized - not long before she was scheduled for a meet-and-greet in Jamaica Plain, where the reaction has been, oh, a tad more negative than in West Roxbury. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/21 - 12:45 pm

For the past couple of weeks, somebody's been going around Roslindale tossing plastic Easter eggs into people's yards that, when opened, have the above piece of paper in them. Calling the candidate a "communist" would be kind of laughable for anybody who actually knows what "communism" means, but aside from that, it's become a code-word for "Asian-American" since the start of the pandemic. Read more.

By adamg - 10/15/21 - 5:21 pm

Michael O'Reilly of West Roxbury was arraigned today on one count each of posing a child in a state of nudity and dissemination of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

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