This afternoon, Matt the roaming UHub photographer spotted the remains of a tree laying across one side of the VFW Parkway, just past where Centre Street splits off from it, near Our Lady of the Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral.
Update: WFXT identifies the man as Jason Peri Bonilla of Roxbury.
State Police reported shortly after 8 p.m. that divers had recovered the body of a 19-year-old Boston man from Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation. Read more.
Mary Ellen captured a couple of damselflies on a stalk in the placid water of the Charles River's Cow Island Pond stretch off Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected without prejudice a proposal to replace the BP station at the corner of Centre Street and Belgrade Avenue with a bank because the lot's owner didn't show up at the hearing.
The vote means the owner can reapply for approval to beef up West Roxbury's bank census should it find a hearing date it could actually make.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday considers a proposal to replace the BP station on Centre Street at Belgrade Avenue in West Roxbury with a brand-new bank branch with a drive-up window. Read more.
In a public notice about its impending merger with the parent company of the East Boston Savings Bank, Rockland Trust says it will close current East Boston branches in Allston, Brighton (two branches), Chinatown, Dorchester, Mission Hill, Roslindale, West Roxbury, Brookline and Cambridge (two branches), among others. Read more.
Mary Ellen was down by the Charles River at Millennium Park this morning and watched a great blue heron enjoy a fresh catfish meal. It took the bird a half hour to subdue and finally consume the entire large fish, she reports. Read more.
DCR, we assume, planted some new trees along VFW Parkway at Atlantis Street in West Roxbury last Thursday. And sometime over the weekend, Mike Bresinski reports, somebody sawed them in half.
Updated with O'Malley comments.
After reading what Alexandra Oliver-Dávila had to say about their constituents, state Rep. Ed Coppinger (D-West Roxbury) and City Councilor Matt O'Malley (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) are calling for her to resign. Read more.
Updated with arrest information.
Boston Police report arresting a Hyde Park man for indecent assault and battery on two women inside Savers, 1230 VFW Parkway, around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted Frosty and his AC unit on Baker Street in West Roxbury today.
Prop for Julia Child street scene. Photo by ScaryHiggy.
Well, more accurately, the cast and crew of an HBO mini-series on the spy-turned-chef's life, filming today on the streets of West Roxbury - starting out at St. John Chrysostom Church on Washington Street, which is the field quarters for the production. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted this deer bounding up the hill at Millennium Park yesterday, sign be damned. Read more.
Gary Park wants to celebrate the end of Covid-19 requirements today, but can't. The owner of Gary's Liquors on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury writes he will not be uncorking anything tonight: Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted this coyote at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday morning.
But Wile E. was not the only creature she photographically captured there, including this snapping turtle he'll probably stay away from: Read more.
Marry Ellen photographically lassoed the moon over the West Roxbury Crushed Stone quarry off Centre and Grove streets last night.
Up north, Matt Frank captured the moon at the Tobin Bridge: Read more.
BPD District E-5 is sending out fliers to Centre Street businesses to post in their windows warning of a crackdown on double parkers along West Roxbury's main commercial drag. Read more.
Officers from the E-5 drug unit didn't have far to go yesterday to arrest Rafael Vargas Mariano - they just walked next door on Centre Street to the 7-Eleven and there he was, police say. Read more.
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