West Roxbury

West Roxbury firefighters having their barbecue today, anyway

adamg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:35:59 -0400

Firefighters get ready. Photo
from Bulletin Newspapers.

UPDATE: The Bulletin Newspapers report on today's memorial service as well as a barbecue banquet provided by Tex's BBQ of Dedham as a way for the firefighters to thank West Roxbury.

They're not letting the city or the union tell them how to thank West Roxbury for its support after the Tai Ho fire.

According to the Bulletin Newspapers, the men of Engine 30 and Ladder 25 will start their ~~cookout~~ thank-you barbecue immediately after a 1 p.m. memorial service for Warren Payne and Paul Cahill - in the Hyde Park Savings Bank parking lot next to the Centre Street station.

Fire brass had ordered the cookout canceled earlier this week, saying they did not feel it an appropriate way to honor the two men's memories.

The new plaques unveiled today (photos courtesy Bulletin Newspapers):

Police cracking down on park loiterers in Roslindale, West Roxbury

adamg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:44:28 -0400

Boston Police said they would go after miscreants in local parks after vandals cut down trees and left behind sex devices at the Hynes Field playground in West Roxbury. And this morning, police report on the arrest of a gaggle of allegedly boozy teens at Fallon Field in Roslindale around 11 p.m. yesterday:

[O]fficers observed a group of individuals huddled together near the basketball courts. As officers approached the area from Walworth St. they observed the suspects knocking over beer cans and placing plastic cups containing alcohol on the ground. Officers also observed several empty containers of alcohol on the ground. Officers approached and questioned the suspects and found them to be minors in possession of alcohol. The officers smelled a strong odor of alcohol on the breath of the suspects.

The alleged loitering louts were taken down to Area E-5 over in West Roxbury for the obligatory phone calls to mom and dad.

Boston Fire Department disses West Roxbury

adamg — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:38:25 -0400

Cancels cookout planned for Friday; West Roxbury firefighters wanted to thank the community for its support after the Tai Ho fire.

Vandalism in a West Roxbury playground

adamg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:37:56 -0400

Trees cut down, bench sawed in half at Hynes Field playground.

And many goooools were scored

adamg — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:41:08 -0400

It was fun watching a pair of local Brazilian teams play soccer at Millennium Park yesterday (I think the complex behind them is the apartments by the Chestnut Hill Mall).

Vegetarian zombies walk among us

adamg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:06:06 -0400

For the past several weeks, there's been this amazing brain-like fungus growing on the side of a tree on the VFW Parkway southbound, just past LaGrange. Every time I drove past, I thought it would make a great photo and vowed to stop next time. This morning, around 9:30, I saw the brain and vowed to stop on my way back (from Millennium Park). Around 10:30, I did - only to discover that in the interim, a vegetarian zombie (what else could it be?) had ripped the brain to shreds:

That'll teach me to put things off, right?

It was a clean fight

adamg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:47:34 -0400

The Transcript reports on a spat at the Burger King on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury: A patron told police that when he asked employees to put on clean gloves, the manager came around the counter:

[T]hrew the victim's money back at him, grabbed a soda cup from his hand and grabbed his wrist.

The manager told police he refunded the man's money and asked him to leave but never laid a hand on him.

Blood runs in the streets

adamg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:59:04 -0400

The Herald sums it up: Bloody night in Hub: 6 shot, 2 stabbed in spate of violence (including the two kids shot in Roxbury and the two people stabbed in West Roxbury:

In a startling burst of bloodshed last night, six people were shot within two hours, and two women were stabbed, police said.

Two stabbed in West Roxbury

adamg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:55:20 -0400

At the end of its story on the two kids shot in Roxbury, the Globe mentions that a man was stabbed last night on Maplewood Road and that a woman was stabbed on Edgemere Road. The Herald reports both victims were women and that the Edgemere Road victim "suffered multiple stab wounds in a brutal domestic incident" but is expected to survive.

Who's missing a toddler?

adamg — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:21:12 -0400

Toddler found wandering on VFW Parkway. 2 years old, this morning, hopefully in the median strip or on a sidewalk here.