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By adamg - 10/11/13 - 9:13 am
Long live Enver Hoxha

They could be Boston's quietest ethnic community - you just don't hear much about the Albanians of Roslindale and West Roxbury. But Kathy Cahill spotted some Albanian graffiti in Roslindale this morning. Translated, it means "Long live Comrade Enver Hoxha," a paean to the Communist tyrant who ruled the country from 1944 until his death in 1985.

Film extolling the shoku's greatness - all in Albanian, but you'll get the idea.

By Ward 19 Democratic Committee... - 10/7/13 - 3:09 pm

The Ward 19 Democratic Committee will meet today, Monday, October 7, at 7:00 PM at the Roslindale Community Center. The Committee welcomes any voters registered as Democrats in Ward 19 who are interested in participating in Committee events, and contributing to our mission, to attend our meetings.

The previously planned forum for the mayoral candidates that was to be held October 8 has been cancelled.

To find out if you live in Ward 19, check here.

By adamg - 10/7/13 - 7:55 am
Steve Murphy with an umbrella

Steve Murphy was one of the sensible candidates in yesterday's parade.

The Globe gets drenched covering the two mayoral candidates in yesterday's Roslindale parade; doesn't note that both were preceded by Rob Consalvo, staying dry in a trolley bus.

By adamg - 10/2/13 - 12:39 pm
Cockatiel

It turned shy when Gregory Adams aimed his camera at it, but that's a yellow-headed cockatiel up in a tree at Fallon Field in Roslindale this morning.

UPDATE: That's Smokey the Cockatiel, whose owner just recently moved to the Fallon Field neighborhood and who didn't realize one of his windows was open over the weekend.

By adamg - 9/30/13 - 10:34 am

On Saturday, a disgusted citizen reported trash strewn all about Adams Park right as the farmers' market was opening and demanded to know where the local hokey man was ("hokey" being that trash can on wheels set up the hokey men use).

The city responds this morning:

Closed. Case Noted. There is no more weekend hokey ..we cleaned it friday afternoon that the best can do ..u already have been told that a few months ago.

So that's what it's all about.

By adamg - 9/26/13 - 9:43 am

Matthew Wilding reports somebody is leaving headless pigeons strewn about Adams Park in Roslindale Square.

Ed. note: Or some thing, mwa-ha-ha. In either case, don't click on that link unless you want to see one of said strewn headless pigeons.

By adamg - 9/25/13 - 10:28 pm

Roslindale is all atwitter tonight about a small plane that is just circling the neighborhood over and over (I'm hearing it as I type this, sounds like it's somewhere in the vicinity of Metropolitan). Why is it up there? What does it want?

UPDATE: BPD says it's a "mapping plane," which they know because people have been calling them and somebody there checked with Logan. Makes sense, because you know how much Roslindale's streets have changed recently - although somebody less of a jerk might suggest things other than roads can be mapped. A source says this is the plane.

By adamg - 9/24/13 - 9:16 am

The driver of a 34E bus was forced to pull over on Washington Street near the West Roxbury Parkway around 6:45 p.m. yesterday when a passenger began attacking a seat. An MBTA supervisor's report states:

After a customer reported there was a man sitting in the middle of the bus stabbing a seat with a pair of scissors and putting the scissors up to his neck and his head, the bus pulled over to the side of the road, and police were called. No one was injured.

The bus operator reported the man, holding scissors, got off the bus. The man was described as a Caucasian, mid 20s, wearing black jeans and a black hoodie. The man, last seen in front of the Burger King, was gone when police arrived.

By adamg - 9/20/13 - 11:36 pm

Around 11:15 p.m., two men with bandanas over their faces forced a worker and a customer at the Domino's on Washington Street by Enneking Parkway to the floor and took money and the customer's purse.

Both suspects are about 5'8" and thin. The gunman wore a navy blue hoodie with his face covered with a blue handkerchief with "Boston" written in red on it. The second suspect was Hispanic, about 25, in a dark hoodie. He had dark eyebrows. They may have fled on foot into the apartment complex behind the strip mall.

By adamg - 9/19/13 - 8:01 am

Boston Police report arresting Fernando Rosario, 30, near his 3 Highcrest Terrace apartment Wednesday morning.

By adamg - 9/15/13 - 12:06 am

CastilloUPDATE: Friends and family identify the victim as Nelson B. Castillo, 25, of Roslindale. He leaves his wife and young daughter.

Shortly before midnight at 80 Archdale Rd.

This was the eighth shooting in Boston on Saturday but the only fatal one.

Last December, a man was fatally shot in the head at 20 Brookway Terrace, followed the next month by a woman being shot to death a couple blocks away on Fawndale Rd. In April, cars were shot up at 80 Archdale.

By Ward 19 Democratic Committee... - 9/8/13 - 4:29 pm

The Ward 19 Democratic Committee will meet Monday, September 9, at 7:00 PM at the Farnsworth House in JP. The Committee welcomes any voters registered as Democrats in Ward 19 who are interested in participating in Committee events, and contributing to our mission, to attend our meetings. Check here to see if you live in Ward 19.

The Farnsworth House is located at 90 South Street in Jamaica Plain, and is accessible by the #39 bus. On-street parking is available.

By adamg - 9/5/13 - 4:13 pm

Boston Police report they are investigating five housebreaks in the three neighborhoods over the past couple of days - four of them in which they have evidence the burglar or burglars entered via a window.

By adamg - 8/29/13 - 4:28 pm

WGBH reports on the protests for better wages outside a number of outlets in the city today, including on American Legion Highway in Roslindale.

By adamg - 8/29/13 - 9:05 am

Seven of the eight candidates running to replace Rob Consalvo as city councilor in District 5 (Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan) made their pitches last night to a packed house at a forum sponsored by the Fairmount Hill Neighborhood Assocation (Ava Callendar had a previous engagement). Some excerpts:

By adamg - 8/28/13 - 10:31 am

UPDATE: Herald says it's changed the time of its forum to "accommodate a scheduling conflict by some candidates," which is certainly an artful way to put it.

Marty Walsh, John Barros and Bill Walczak say that on the evening of Sept. 9, they'll be honoring their commitments and appearing at a mayoral forum sponsored by MassCreative, which was announced weeks ago, rather than the forum announced just yesterday by the Herald, Suffolk University and NECN.

Walsh, who has a top advisor who's pretty well known in local arts and entertainment circles, tweeted:

By adamg - 8/19/13 - 9:55 am

Wicked Local Roslindale reports on a proposal to replace an old gas station at 18 Robert St., just outside Roslindale Square, with a 14-unit condo building.

By adamg - 8/6/13 - 9:32 pm

Somebody was robbed of a phone at gunpoint at Canterbury and Poplar streets around 8:50 p.m. Police are looking for two Cape Verdean men, one in a white T-shirt and khaki pants, with his hair in short braids. They fled on foot.

By adamg - 8/3/13 - 11:38 pm

Boston Police report a 15-year-old is back in Boston and a Seekonk man under arrest as a pimp after an investigation into human trafficking that began last year.

Police say the girl was from police District E-5, which covers West Roxbury and Roslindale.

Investigators found her working at Cheaters in Providence.

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