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By adamg - 8/4/24 - 7:10 pm
Storm clouds over Roslindale Square

Mark Smith watched the storm clouds roll in over Roslindale Square this afternoon (the Municipal Building and the Greater Roslindale medical clinic building in the lower left).

By adamg - 8/1/24 - 12:25 pm

Distraction Brewing in Roslindale Square announced today that it will shut Aug. 31 - as a new owner works to change it into a brewery that is also a coffeehouse with food. Read more.

By adamg - 7/31/24 - 1:21 pm

The two outages that left part of Roslindale without lights or air conditioning yesterday were caused by "an underground cable fault" underneath Belgrade Avenue, an Eversource spokesperson said today. Read more.

By adamg - 7/30/24 - 7:13 pm

The power failed for more than 1,000 homes and businesses between Belgrade Avenue, West Roxbury Parkway and Washington Street around 5:40 p.m., Eversource reports. Read more

By adamg - 7/26/24 - 2:59 pm

The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/24 - 12:07 pm

Power's out in Roslindale in the area where Washington, Beech and Walworth streets conmingle in one of those three-way Boston intersections that are hard to navigate even when the traffic lights are working, given how many people run the lights, let alone now, when they're out and one resident reports "drivers are beeping" in an attempt to get through the mess.

Eversource reports a total of 385 residences and businesses are without power and estimates a 1 p.m. restoration time.

By adamg - 7/21/24 - 10:08 am
Deer in a backyard

Pass reports from the area of Beech Street and Alpheus Road on Roslindale's Grew Hill that this morning he and his wife looked out into their backyard this morning and spotted a foraging deer - not something that particular area is known for (down the hill at the George Wright Golf Course or Sherrin Woods, sure): Read more.

By adamg - 7/14/24 - 1:45 pm
Boy with pumpkinseed caught in Turtle Pond

Teddy Ventura poses with fish he caught using some ham from a Dunkin' Donuts sandwich in Turtle Pond.

Christine Ventura of West Roxbury and her son Teddy, 7, pulled over on Enneking Parkway yesterday to try some fishing off the dock at Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation - even though all they had for bait was some ham from a Dunkin' sandwich. Read more.

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 8:56 pm

Their ingenious burning plot foiled, the assholes on somebody's porch on Tyndale Street at 2 a.m. on Thursday instead ripped the flag down, WCVB reports, adding somebody tried to pull the flag down the day before and when that failed, kicked the house.

By adamg - 7/3/24 - 9:51 am
Pine trees and grass in the sun at the Arnold Arboretum

Mark Smith shares the morning sun on pine trees and grass on the Peter's Hill side of the Arnold Arboretum.

By adamg - 6/27/24 - 9:48 am

Roslindaily is an Instagram feed of daily photos from a couple of Rozzident photographers.

By adamg - 6/25/24 - 6:17 pm

Boston Animal Care and Control reported this afternoon that Fernando the wily brown and white Rozzie bull remains unfound, even after the city unleashed a thermal-imaging drone to try to find him. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/24 - 9:29 pm

Boston Animal Care and Control reported tonight that the cow or bull last seen near the Flaming Grill buffet in Roslindale continues to hoof it around the neighborhood. Read more.

By adamg - 6/22/24 - 12:44 pm

Boston Police and Animal Control responded to American Legion Highway near the Walgreens and Flaming Grill buffet around 7:20 this morning on reports of a bull that had been wandering around there until some people in a UHaul chased it up into the woods of Crane Ledge next door. Read more.

By adamg - 6/20/24 - 10:50 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a man's gun convictions related to the way he killed a co-worker at a Roslindale garage in 2019 because prosecutors failed to prove he didn't have a gun license, but upheld his conviction for manslaughter, which means he will remain behind bars. Read more.

By adamg - 6/19/24 - 11:46 am
Firefighters working on rescuing solar-panel installer in Roslindale

Photo by John Murphy.

Boston firefighters and EMTs responded to Delore Circle at Seymour Street in Roslindale after a worker up on the roof installing solar panels suffered a "heat emergency" and passed out in the heat around 10 a.m. Firefighters were able to take him down to the ground in via the bucket at the end of the ladder; he was then taken to a local hospital for care.

By adamg - 6/13/24 - 1:30 pm

Update: LoRusso Corp. confirms it conducted a blast shortly after 1 p.m. at its quarry at Grove and Centre Street in West Roxbury.

Reports are coming in from West Roxbury, Hyde Park and right here in the UHub Newsroom (OK, our dining room table) of some weird shaking going on shortly after 1 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 6/7/24 - 3:33 pm

A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/24 - 1:18 pm

Jimmies, which closed in January, could soon be replaced by a new outlet serving New Zealand ice cream - soft serve with fresh fruit mixed in. Read more.

By adamg - 5/22/24 - 10:23 pm

A Texas developer that wants to build a suburban-style low-rise apartment complex on 14 acres of hillside that a Mattapan church owns off American Legion Highway this week sued both Boston and the BPDA, which has now twice rejected the development proposal as inappropriate for the city. Read more.

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