Dr. Wendy Huang treats the cat at Angell (photo by MSPCA-Angell).
The MSPCA reports its trying to find the owner of a severely injured cat that a worker at the Stop&Shop on American Legion Highway in Roslindale found lying in the store parking lot as she left work shortly before 11 p.m. on Feb. 11. Read more.
WCVB reports one person was pronounced dead at the scene after a crash at Blue Hill Avenue and American Legion Highway around 10:45 p.m. on Saturday. A second person was taken to a local hospital, where he died.
Boston Police report eight arrests, dozens of tickets and 19 vehicle seizures and one gun seizure during a weekend series of raids at several locations from Roslindale to Dorchester on Saturday aimed at busting up the large rolling parties of scooters, ATVs and speaker-equipped and booze-filled cars that have become a regular event across the city. Read more.
Most developers don't need to be told twice, but the BPDA has yet again rejected a proposal by a Dallas firm to construct a nine-building, 270-unit apartment complex on what is now a heavily wooded hillside on American Legion Highway next to the Stop & Shop strip mall. Read more.
BFD's drone-mounted thermal imager helped firefighters direct water to hot spots.
Mt. Mulchmore, Landscape Express's mulch mountain at 425 American Legion Highway in Mattapan, caught fire this afternoon, the Boston Fire Department reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two men in the parking lot of the McDonald's at 718 American Legion Highway in Roslindale after finding "a Glock 30 with thirteen rounds in the magazine, and a Glock 19 with forty rounds in the magazine" in their SUV around 4:10 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
In a rare but detailed rejection, the BPDA on Friday said no to a Texas developer's plans to carve out a hillside along American Legion Highway next to the Stop&Shop/Walgreen's strip mall for a complex with 270 apartments in nine three-story buildings with 331 parking spaces. Read more.
A Milton developer is asking the BPDA to let him reduce the amount of garage parking he has to provide at a 49-unit apartment building between Cummins Highway and American Legion Highway, next to the Stop & Shop, from 61 spaces to 49. Read more.
The owners of the Simco's stands in Mattapan and Roslindale today acknowledged they paid 20 workers below even the federal minimum wage and refused to pay overtime, in a proposed settlement of a US Department of Labor complaint filed in US District Court in Boston. Read more.
A four-year-old who fell from a fourth-floor window at 12 American Legion Highway, near Blue Hill Avenue last Wednesday died today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 riddle tonight about a live chicken at the intersection of American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street in Roslindale.
Clouds seen through the old Blockbuster sign that still stands by the side of American Legion Highway, in the mall where the Popeyes is in Roslindale.
Update: Liquor license request approved. Board also granted temporary food-service license so the restaurant can open as soon as it can, without waiting for the state's approval process for the liquor license.
The Boston Licensing Board next week considers plans by the owners of an under-construction crab shack on American Legion Highway in Roslindale to buy the beer and wine license of a defunct Vietnamese place downtown - once again giving Roslindale and Hyde Park diners the choice of three Cajun seafood restaurants. Read more.
Rendering by Heffner Architects.
The Texas developer that wants to turn a wooded hillside on American Legion Highway on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line into a nine-building apartment complex has filed new plans that call for a bit less asphalt, a bit more greenspace and some additional affordable units - along with a substantial reduction in the number of parking spaces. Read more.
Two of the protesters in front of the woods along American Legion Highway.
About 75 residents gathered along American Legion Highway near the Walgreens to oppose a Texas developer's plans to carve away a big chunk of the hillside and ledge there for a complex with 270 apartments in nine low-slung buildings with 415 parking spaces. Read more.
Update: One of two suspects arrested.
report Stanley Stacos reports gunfire on American Legion Highway shortly after 3:30 p.m., with the gunman on a scooter. No indication of anybody hit. Read more.
Rendering by Context Workshop.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 34-unit apartment building on Hyde Park Avenue at American Legion Highway. Read more.
Rendering by Heffner Architects.
The BPDA holds a meeting tomorrow on a Texas developer's plans for a 270-unit apartment complex with 415 parking spaces on what is now 14 acres of forested hillside next to the Stop & Shop strip mall on American Legion Highway on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line. Read more.
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