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By adamg - 6/25/23 - 11:46 am
American bullfrog at Millennium Park

Mary Ellen spotted an American bullfrog at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today - from the eyes up, at any rate.

By adamg - 6/24/23 - 9:46 pm
Lots of used tennis balls

Mary Ellen spotted all these used tennis balls at the canoe launch on the Charles River at Millennium Park today. A sacrifice, or an attempt to give all the dog owners who bring their pets there something to throw into the river for them to fetch?

By Greta Gaffin - 6/23/23 - 2:52 pm
Bill MacGregor

Newly elected State Rep. Bill MacGregor ( West Roxbury, Roslindale, South Brookline) said he will continue predecessor Ed Coppinger's work on several road-safety projects in the district. Read more.

By adamg - 6/23/23 - 2:05 pm

Bounding buck

Mary Ellen watched a buck bounding at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning. She apologizes for the non-deer jumpiness of the video, says it was tough to hold both the camera and the leash for Dolly the wonder dog.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 10:20 pm

Update: Case sent back to state court, where Baldursdottir voluntarily dismissed it on Sept. 25, 2023.

A woman who faces a misdemeanor larceny charge over the body-worn camera she says an officer managed to drop while pushing her out of the way of Mayor Wu's car outside the mayor's Roslindale home during an early morning Covid-19 screaming protest has sued the city, the mayor, all the judges who sit at West Roxbury municipal court and a clerk magistrate there for violating her civil rights. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/23 - 9:39 am

The Bay State Banner lists the City Council races that could have contested races this fall, including the four at-large seats and Districts 3 (Dorchester), 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, part of Mission Hill) and 7 (Roxbury).

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 11:04 pm

Parents, teachers and alumni at the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science tonight urged the School Committee to keep the school in Roxbury rather than moving it to distant West Roxbury, while people affiliated with Boston Latin Academy mostly urged the committee to find a new head of school who won't belittle and ignore teachers and students - although some praised and supported current Head of School Gavin Smith. Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 11:10 am
Muskrat grabbing some lunch along the Charles River

Mary Ellen captured this muskrat (or some other rodenty critter) chowing down along the Charles River in West Roxbury the other day.

By adamg - 6/18/23 - 12:37 pm

Schoolyard News posts an essay by Aparna Lakshmi, an O'Bryant history teacher and Robert Comeau, an O'Bryant English teacher on how the drawbacks of moving their school to a site about as close to the middle of nowhere in Boston as you can get will outweigh the potential benefits of expanded, state-of-the-art classrooms and labs. Read more.

By adamg - 6/8/23 - 3:33 pm

Two people who lived with Patrick Rose as children who say he raped them repeatedly for several years and who say they were then shunted aside by fellow cops and officials even after they kept telling their stories today sued the city of Boston, the Boston Police Department, former BPD Commissioner Paul Evans, the Boston Police Patrolman's Association, Rose's successor as union president, several BPD supervisors and the state Department of Children and Families. Read more.

By adamg - 6/6/23 - 12:36 pm

Mayor Wu and School Superintendent today announced a series of high-school moves they say will dramatically increase educational and career opportunities for students at the O'Bryant and Madison Park school and other high schools. Read more.

By adamg - 6/5/23 - 10:56 pm

City Councilor Julia Mejia (at large), said today BPS appears poised to announce it's moving the John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science from Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury to the former West Roxbury Education Complex, next to a swamp on the edge of the city in a building that BPS officials ordered shut in 2019 because, they said at the time, it was filling with mold due to a roof that could not be replaced, atop a structure that looked ready to plunge to the ground. Read more.

By adamg - 5/31/23 - 11:56 pm
Jascha Franklin-Hodge discusses deadly double-threat crashes

Boston Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge discusses safety issues on Centre Street.

Mayor Wu and City Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge told a packed auditorium at the Ohrenberger School tonight they are committed to making Centre Street safer through a reconfiguration that will include reducing the number of travel lanes on each side from two to one, with a new third lane in the center for left-turn lanes at intersections and for various "flex" uses, such as letting first responders speed to emergencies. Read more.

By adamg - 5/30/23 - 11:23 pm

A Boston health inspector today gave Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, permission to re-open after an inspection found no problems. Read more.

By Oliver Blake - 5/24/23 - 11:03 am
Speed hump on Evans Street in Mattapan

Expect more car-slowing speed humps, like this one on Evans Street in Mattapan.

City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.

By adamg - 5/23/23 - 11:24 am

The new playground at Millennium Park in West Roxbury had its gates swung open for kids today (there'll be an official ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. on June 10).

By adamg - 5/22/23 - 3:10 pm

Mayor Wu and her transportation chief today announced new measures to make Boston streets safer - including a revival of plans to turn Centre Street between the Holy Name Rotary and Spring Street in West Roxbury into a three-lane road with dedicated turn lanes, pedestrian islands and signal changes aimed at slowing down drivers and giving pedestrians better odds of being able to get from one side of the street to the other. Read more.

By adamg - 5/22/23 - 9:34 am

Ted Folkman was not expecting to get yelled at just for walking into the West Roxbury Roche Bros. yesterday, but reports one of the omnipresent signature collectors spewed him with bile when he refused to sign a petition for somebody he'd never heard of trying to get on the ballot for city councilor at large: Read more

By adamg - 5/21/23 - 9:08 pm
Otter in the West Roxbury High School marsh

Mary Ellen reports spotting an otter in the marsh/pond in between VFW Parkway and the old West Roxbury Education Complex today - and that she watched it eat a frog.

By adamg - 5/20/23 - 9:45 am

Update, 5/30: Restaurant allowed to re-open.

A city health inspector yesterday shut Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, for a variety of violations, including hot foods not being kept hot enough, cold items not being kept cold enough, employees not following basic sanitary practices and rodent droppings. Read more.

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