A 53-year-old man walking across Centre Street in West Roxbury suffered head and rib injuries after being hit by an SUV near the TD Bank branch around 3:40 p.m. Read more.
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By adamg - 11/27/23 - 9:34 am
First hoop asks: Wanna piece of me?
A determined citizen spent part of Sunday night cruising West Roxbury looking for wheeled basketball hoops just sitting on sidewalks like they owned the joint, and reported not one but two hoops on Willowdean Avenue and another 1.5 miles down the parkway at Temple Street and Temple Terrace. Read more.
By adamg - 11/26/23 - 5:05 pm
Mary Ellen found the Alicia Keys of the bird world the other day: A song sparrow in a puddle as the sun came up over Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 11/13/23 - 9:21 am
Andrea Doremus Cuetara captured the tree next to the firehouse on Centre Street in West Roxbury yesterday afternoon.
Earlier:
Firehouse then and now.
By adamg - 11/11/23 - 10:01 am
Mary Ellen spotted this blooming azalea in her West Roxbury yard yesterday. They normally bloom in the spring.
By adamg - 11/3/23 - 11:41 am
Outages at 11:30 a.m., via Eversource outage map.
Update, 3:15 p.m. Eversource reports 139 homes and businesses still without power in Boston, but no outages in Dedham, Brookline and Newton.
Eversource is blaming "equipment damage" for widespread outages that started around 10:45 a.m. in an area that extends from Brookline and Newton streets in the north to most of West Roxbury and Dedham in the south. Parts of Roslindale as far east as Roslindale Square are also affected. Read more.
By adamg - 10/30/23 - 8:54 pm
Parents at the Lyndon School on Mt. Vernon Street in West Roxbury got e-mail today about "graffiti containing racially offensive language and inappropriate images" sprayed in a couple of classrooms and a hallway over the weekend.
School staffers counseled students who may have seen the graffiti. Boston Police are investigating.
By adamg - 10/28/23 - 5:08 pm
Basem Metri, who owns Fairouz, 5268 Washington St. in West Roxbury, announced this week he's closing the restaurant to focus entirely on catering. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/23 - 9:36 am
Mary Ellen captured a relatively rare morning rainbow, over Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 10/21/23 - 5:15 pm
Festive dual-season holiday tree at the Dunkin' Donuts on Washington Street in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 10/21/23 - 3:00 pm
A fed-up parent of a child at the Ohrenberger School on West Boundary Road in West Roxbury forwarded this note the school sent out yesterday. The school has a brand-new kitchen, but it's been out of commission since the start of the year and so far BPS has yet to get it fixed, so instead the school has been serving packaged lunches - some of which showed up yesterday as unsafe to serve.
By adamg - 10/21/23 - 1:29 pm
This immature Cooper's hawk at Millennium Park in West Roxbury stayed still long enough for Mary Ellen to compose a portrait shot yesterday.
She reports that, in addition to Younghawk, she also spotted a pair of bald eagles perched atop one of the communications towers along Rivermoor Street, where they get a clear view of the various twists of the Charles there - the first time she's spotted eagles there in awhile: Read more.
By adamg - 10/19/23 - 8:59 am
Ari Ofsevit caught the sunrise over Harvard Stadium this morning.
In West Roxbury, Mary Ellen watched the dawn break over the old West Roxbury High School: Read more.
By adamg - 10/17/23 - 10:31 am
Jamaica Plain News reports that District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) candidates Ben Weber and William King will meet in a forum Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at Casa Verde in Jamaica Plain that will also feature an all-you-can eat lunch for $2.
By adamg - 10/16/23 - 9:13 pm
Thomas Gunning Kelley looks over dug-up pedestrian crossings at Centre and Hastings.
A contractor hired by BTD has begun tearing up pedestrian crossings along Centre Street in West Roxbury as the first phase of a project that will reconfigure the road from four car travel lanes to two, with new center turning lanes, pedestrian crossings and dedicated bike lanes along the sidewalks, protected from traffic by parked cars. Read more.
By adamg - 10/13/23 - 3:33 pm
Mary Ellen spotted this merlin, a type of falcon that's bigger than a robin but smaller than a crow, perched at Millennium Park in West Roxbury today.
By adamg - 10/4/23 - 8:41 pm
Mary Ellen got a close up of a mantis at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
By adamg - 9/28/23 - 9:28 am
Mary Ellen watched the sun come up over the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
By adamg - 9/20/23 - 3:31 pm
B’nai B’rith Housing, joined by city and state officials, today officially opened its 1208 Parkway complex of 60 income-restricted apartments off Baker Street in West Roxbury - with its entrance on VFW Parkway. Read more.
By adamg - 9/17/23 - 9:47 am
Tossed mattress.
An aghast citizen filed a 311 complaint about an incident on Baker Street at Amesbury Street in West Roxbury shortly after noon on Saturday: Read more.
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