A roving UHub photographer on the way back from Home Depot spotted this coyote roaming Caspar Street in West Roxbury around 12:20 p.m. today.
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By adamg - 12/30/15 - 9:06 am
Where the large Panera sign used to be.
The Panera on Spring Street shut Monday - right in the middle of the day.
Last night, workers removed the ovens. The large Panera sign on the front is gone, although the menus over where the cash registers used to be remain illuminated. Read more.
By adamg - 12/24/15 - 2:17 pm
Yes, we all get a good chuckle whenever a trucker wedges his vehicle under the bridge on Lagrange Street.
But it's frickin' stupid. Read more.
By adamg - 12/24/15 - 10:11 am
Tim captured the scene on Lagrange Street this morning just after a truck driver discovered one of the two spots in West Roxbury where trucks shouldn't go (the other being the other Needham Line bridge, over VFW Parkway).
H/t Paul MacMaster for the headline.
By adamg - 12/20/15 - 4:42 pm
Cosby walked into this scene at the Centre Street Walgreens in West Roxbury today.
By adamg - 12/19/15 - 11:38 am
The scene this morning out the window of one of the holiday trolleys running up and down Centre and Spring streets in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 12/18/15 - 12:34 pm
A developer is looking to put 138 condos in a cluster of buildings off Baker Street, across from the Catholic Memorial baseball field and hard by the Needham Line tracks.
The BRA and the mayor's office are holding a "pre-file" meeting for residents to get a first look at the proposal, at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 7 at the West Roxbury Elks on Morrell Street. Read more.
By adamg - 12/16/15 - 2:39 pm
An area resident who normally walks her dog in the woods where JP, West Roxbury and Roslindale meet reports both wound up in an ER due to an attack by two larger dogs whose owner couldn't keep them on leash: Read more.
By adamg - 12/14/15 - 11:31 pm
Architect David O'Sullivan shows renderings of proposed apartments.
Developer Ralph Vacca wants to replace the old Todesca garage at 4945 Washington St. with a four-story apartment building with 46 units and 67 parking spaces.
For the second month in a row, Vacca, his architect and his attorney met with the West Roxbury Civic and Improvement Association tonight to go over the proposal before they submit it to the BRA and the Zoning Board of Appeals. Read more.
By adamg - 12/14/15 - 9:48 pm
Howard Sorett makes his case.
A station that would pump high-pressure natural gas into the National Grid network just off Grove and Centre streets would be a "ticking time bomb" that could prove easy pickings for any terrorist who wants to immolate an entire neighborhood, members of the West Roxbury Civic and Improvement Association agreed tonight. Read more.
By adamg - 12/13/15 - 8:12 pm
Tonight's specials show that, when it comes to drinks, Tony's in West Roxbury is old school (right up there with the Pleasant Cafe in Roslindale, which also still offers tonic).
By adamg - 12/11/15 - 10:01 am
The view from the banks of the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - 12/9/15 - 8:13 am
The Boston Business Journal reports the Boston Firefighters Credit Union will be moving into the space at Centre and Lagrange vacated by Eastern Bank. Unfortunately, the space is not large enough to let the credit union sublease space to a pizza place or funeral home.
The location is right up the street from the City of Boston Credit Union, which the BBJ notes has become the Boston Firefighters Credit Union's evil arch-nemesis.
By adamg - 11/29/15 - 5:18 pm
The West Roxbury Roche Bros. decided post-Thanksgiving shoppers needed ready access to squashes larger than their heads yesterday.
By adamg - 11/19/15 - 9:13 am
An alert UHub reader noticed the guy who said he wanted to build a hotel catering to observant Jews on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury (where the burned-out McDonald's used to be) sold the property yesterday for $1.4 million to the owner of a Brockton gas station and car wash. The BRA's King David Hotel page is now gone, although you can still see the initial filing for the project.
By adamg - 11/15/15 - 1:16 pm
Every once in awhile, the DCR holds an open house for the Bellevue Standpipe, atop the highest natural point in Boston - 388-foot Bellevue Hill. David Parsons went to the one yesterday and took some pictures.
Copyright David Parsons. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Congressman to hold meeting on jet noise south of Logan; FAA may actually deign to show up this time
By adamg - 11/12/15 - 11:49 am
US Rep. Stephen Lynch says he's holding a forum in Milton next month on complaints about flight paths south of Logan Airport and the growing number of complaints by residents from the South End to Milton. Read more.
By adamg - 11/12/15 - 10:42 am
Two groups of protesters were arrested for blocking work on the West Roxbury pipeline on Washington Street this morning, even as workers continued uninterrupted digging a trench for the pipeline on Grove Street.
Protesters object to putting a high-pressure natural-gas pipeline in a densely populated neighborhood and a gas transfer station across the street from an active quarry. Read more.
By adamg - 11/6/15 - 5:18 pm
The BRA board of directors meets Tuesday to decide, among other things, whether to allow construction of a 16-unit condo building at what is now the decaying Weld-American gas station at Weld and Centre streets. Read more.
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