Police are hunting a man who fired shots out of a car at 108 Glendower Rd. shortly after 8 p.m. - one day after at least three people in the normally sleepy neighborhood were held up at gunpoint.
The shooter didn't hit any people. He's described as black and driving a car with a silver top and a black body, possibly a Dodge Charger. Police shut the one-way street for their investigation.
A group of men robbed a man around 10:30 p.m., Thursday on the Blakemore Street bridge over the train tracks. He was beaten with a gun, then ordered to take off his clothes - which the group then threw over the side of the bridge.
This robbery was around the same time a clerk at a Washington Street liquor store was also being pistol whipped and robbed.
Following David Bernstein's lead, the Globe today reports on the mystery Roslindale woman who set up a PAC to run ads supporting Marty Walsh. Turns out the woman couldn't find a voting booth if her life depended on it, yet she's raised lots of money from people she refuses to identify for these "independent" ads.
Around 10:40 p.m. at MVP Liquors on Washington Street at Albano, by two Hispanic males, one armed with a 9mm gun, which he used to hit the clerk in the head. Both wore hoodies and had T-shirts wrapped around their faces. One was 5'9" and heavyset and had a blue, red and gold sweatshirt on.
Around 9:20 p.m. by the hockey rink at Fallon Field. Both had their backpacks taken by three other teens, one holding a gun and wearing a Freddie Kreuger mask.
The eight at-large council candidates will debate at 5:30 p.m. today in Northeastern's Blackman Auditorium.
Looks like Bill Linehan and Suzanne Lee will debate after all, 6 p.m. at the Lithuanian Club, 368 W. Broadway in South Boston. The South End News reports on a forum featuring Lee and Linehan last week.
Or maybe whoever put out this space saver on Cornell Street could care less about Halloween and is just warning you what will happen if you dare to try to park in front of his house, lack of snow be damned.
Around 10:30 p.m., Wednesday on Durnell Avenue. The suspect, a tall, white Hispanic male, showed a black semi-automatic weapon, then fled toward Walworth.
A Little Caesar's is opening on American Legion Highway, one door down from Simco.
It'll be interesting to see how long it lasts. Aside from Domino's, which has been around forever, Boston's more rural districts don't much cotton to chain pizza - anybody remember the Papa John's in West Roxbury? But if it can survive anywhere, American Legion might be it, given that it's turning into the fast-food equivalent of the Auto Mile: Besides the Simco, there's a McDonald's, a KFC, a Popeye's and a Wendy's (oh, and a Dunkin' Donuts).
Police responded to the Knights of Columbus, 4192 Washington St., shortly after 11 p.m. for a fight. Not long after, a person with a stab wound showed up at Faulkner Hospital.
It's very difficult to find a place to eat then. Thank goodness for the Westbury in West Roxbury (at 6 a.m., somebody was just lifting the security grate at the Robinwood in JP),
As for why I was driving around the City that Always Sleeps at that ungodly hour, well, had to get the kidlet to school for a field trip. A field trip to Williamstown.
Firefighters in the attic. Photo by BFD.
A fire caused by an attic short circuit did an estimated $150,000 in damage to the house at 112 Beech St. the Boston Fire Department reports.
A family of three was displaced by the blaze, reported around 9:35 a.m. Nobody was home at the time and there were no injuries, the department says.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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