The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Diarmuid O'Neill buy the West Roxbury Pub on Centre Street and turn it into a new restaurant and pub called Eat with Jack O'Neill.
At a hearing today, the proposed $250,000 purchase got the approval of city officials and West Roxbury neighborhood and business groups. O'Neill, who owns the Squealing Pig in Brigham Circle, said he plans to add a small bakery and wants to start offering Sunday brunch.
Amanda Gaughan marveled at the sky as evening came:
Tonight's sunset makes even Allston look attractive.
Tim Sullivan drove into the sunset on Spring Street in West Roxbury:
A concerned citizen complains about this example of sidewalk parking on Johnson Street in suburban West Roxbury:
Car consistently parked on sidewalk even blocking entrances to house. Isn't this a fire hazard? Also people can't walk on the sidewalk & have to cross or walk in street.
The city transportation sprang into action, rushing out to ticket that bad boy.
The West Roxbury Bulletin reports the owner of the West Roxbury Pub has sold the place to Diarmuid O'Neill, who plans to remake it into Eat with Jack O'Neill.
The Boston Licensing Board considers the sale at a hearing next Wednesday.
No word on the fate of the James Michael Curley murals that line the four walls of the pub's dining room.
The Palladinos - Steven, Lori and Gregory - all pleaded guilty today to running a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme from atop their Centre Street ice-cream shop.
Members of the Albanian Cultural Sports Association of West Roxbury pleaded with the Boston Licensing Board today to forgive it for a fight that left the floor of its new clubhouse covered in blood and littered with smashed glassware and bottles.
A club member told the board the man most severely injured in the Sept. 22 incident has forgiven his attackers - and succeeded in having criminal complaints against his attackers withdrawn.
Tom Nealon reports he's shutting Pazzo Books on Centre Street in late March:
While the rare books side of the business has thrived (and will continue online, at fairs, and by appointment), the rest of the business has continued to be challenging. When it came time to renew my lease, I just couldn’t pull the trigger and after much deliberation, decided that shuttering the shop was the best thing to do. ...
There's a rumor going around West Roxbury that if you show up at the Millennium Park DPW salt shed with a bucket and proof of Boston residency, they'll fill up your bucket with salt.
"No, absolutely not true," the mayor's office says.
"Who is Number 1?" Matt O'Malley demanded.
"You are Number 6," the mysterious man replied.
"I am not a number, I am a city councilor!" O'Malley retorted.
The man in the chair began to laugh.
Boston Police report the Blue Hills Bank, 1920 Centre St., was held up around 1:30 p.m. by a 50-something white man, with white hair and mustaches, in a blue and white football-style jacket. About an hour later, the suspect and an accomplice were arrested on Liszt Street in Roslindale.
Around 11:25 p.m. at 32 Shaw St., off LaGrange. Nobody was hit and police took two people into custody. The initial confrontation involved an outside law-enforcement agency.
This was about an hour after two people were held up at gunpoint at the other end of LaGrange.
One of the Boston area's rare failed Dunkin' Donuts is getting turned into a bagel shop - on VFW Parkway northbound just past the Dedham line.
The Bagelville outlet is being outfitted by the owners of the bagel stand at Faneuil Hall Marketplace - who promise fresh bagels baked daily, along with bagel-based sandwiches and smoothies.
The parkway is already home to a Bruegger's. The Spring Street Panera also sells bagel-like breadstuffs. In contrast, Roslindale has an awning over Bob's Pita Bakery that promises "Bagel."
No more housing, Brookline says in suit against both the developer and the state agency that approved it, Wicked Local reports.
The apartment complex is split between South Brookline and West Roxbury; all of the new units would be on the Brookline side.
Nancy Rabinowitz, reporter for Wicked Local Roslindale and the West Roxbury Transcript, wrote a terrific analysis about all the political action that took place at Holy Name Parish on Tuesday November 5, 2013. Holy Name Parish, the home of four precincts (Ward 20, Precinct 6, 7, 19, and 20) had over three thousand voters cast ballots on Tuesday.
To read, click here.
Friends of Mark Delamere are organizing a Hypnotist Night fundraiser Saturday night to help his family with the costs of recuperating from the spinal-cord injuries he suffered in a September crash on the Arborway that put one driver into a coma, sent four other people to the hospital and led to criminal charges against the driver of the SUV Delamere was in.
There are some amazing trees in West Roxbury today.
Also see Brad Kelly's photo of Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
Boston firefighters are on what is now their daily run to Stony Brook Reservation, for another brush fire off Enneking Parkway and Washington Street. Two alarms as of 9:30 a.m. State Police are shutting down the parkway.
Firefighter uncovers smodering brush. Photo by BFD.
UPDATE: All out declared around 10:55 a.m.
For the third time in three days, firefighters are in Stony Brook Reservation, combating a brush fire. Unlike the first two, which were at the Hyde Park end of the forest, this one is closer to Washington Street, between West Boundary Road and Enneking Parkway. Around 7:20 a.m., fire commanders struck a second alarm for the fire; around 7:50 a.m., a third alarm; and around 8:30, a fourth alarm.
Police shut West Boundary Road to traffic. Smoke from the fire could be smelled at Forest Hills.
And not just the two or three who actually live in Boston. The Globe reports everybody from Ernie Boch Jr to "members of the board of the conservative Pioneer Institute" are tossing money Connolly's way.
Michael Freedberg doesn't say if he saw that article before he wrote Why John Connolly is the progressive and Marty Walsh isn't:
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