The stairs at 461 Beech St. Photo by BFD.
An early morning fire at 461 Beech St. went to two alarms and sent two firefighters to the hospital for heat exhaustion, the Boston Fire Department reports.
The cause of the fire, reported at 4:25 a.m., remains under investigation.
No residents were injured. The American Red Cross reports eight adults and two children were displaced.
The map-happy folks at Bostonography have updated their work on using crowdsourcing to solve that most vexing of problems: What exactly are the boundaries of Boston neighborhoods?
We asked people to draw boundaries for 21 Boston neighborhoods and have overlaid the resulting shapes (about 4,800 from 950 respondents) to measure the amount of overlap and calculate consensus within each neighborhood.
There's a mini-FAQ that includes this question: "Why is Roslindale so ill-defined?" They say it's mainly due to not enough data, but any Roslindale resident will tell you it's actually a valid question - pieces of the neighborhood secede to get higher property values, other pieces get lumped into city-council districts with Dorchester, we don't have any elected officials of our own, etc., etc.
H/t eeka.
The School Committee is considering making the Haley School a K-8 school, a move some parents fear could undercut plans for an innovative feeder program in which Roslindale fifth graders at six schools were given higher priority for seats at the Irving Middle School.
Joel Van Iderstine, 37, of Sheffield Road, was arrested last night on a charge of possessing and distributing child pornography, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Van Iderstine had his bail set at $5,000 at arraignment in West Roxbury District Court today, the DA's office says.
Federal agents last week raided an unlicensed radio station broadcasting from a Roslindale Square office building.
The Herald reminds us the Roslindale intersection was renamed George J. Gottwald Jr. Square in honor of a local man who died in Vietnam.
You'd think somebody like John Nucci would be familiar with Boston neighborhoods. After all, he spent several years on the School Committee and then got himself elected an at-large city councilor. He used to work for ABCD. Most recently, he served on the committee that came up with a new BPS school-assignment system. And yet, in a column today in the Herald on why suburbanites should care about the Boston mayoral election, he writes:
A nose-holding citizen reports from Roslindale:
Porter potty needed for field- athletes have no facilities and are using the tunnel that connects Fallon field to Belgrade ave to relieve themselves. It smells like urine and is unnerving for walkers.
And in the South End, a disgusted citizen posts a photo of a hole in the ground:
In an editorial, the Jamaica Plain Gazette rhapsodizes about how Roslindale completes JP, in part because Roslindale hosts all the trailer-trash kind of chain stores that would otherwise try to muscle their non-local way into the pristine Elysian fields of Jamaica Plain:
Boston Police say a Dorchester man shot somebody on Brook Street in Roslindale on Monday over a money dispute.
Conrad Blake, 35, of Dorchester was arrested on two counts of assault with intent to murder. According to police:
Witnesses told officers they heard a dispute over money owed. Officers were also told the suspect had come to the residence several times looking for the victim when he was not home.
AlertNewEngland reports a fight at 56 Mt. Hope St. ended with shots fired around 9:50 p.m. For some reason, everybody disappeared before police arrived, but officers found two shell casings.
A little excitement in Roslindale Square at lunchtime when somebody called police to report a disposable aluminum food tray covered in tin foil sitting under a car near the Citizens Bank on South Street. The area was taped off, the bomb squad summoned and determined the object was "inert."
Capt. John Baker, died in 1781, aged 75.
Roslindale is not the sort of place you associate with the Revolution, but it turns out a cemetery there, by the side of a road Washington's forces used to ferry supplies from Dedham to Boston, was the final resting place for a number of Revolutionary War soldiers. Read more.
Boston Police report that one of the bullets from a fusillade shortly after 8 p.m. on Archdale Road penetrated a living-roomn wall at 173 Brookway Rd.:
AlertNewEngland reports shots were fired at 80 Archdale Rd. around 8:15 p.m. A car that was apparently punctured by some of the bullets wound up at the upper busway at the Forest Hills MBTA station not long after. Two other cars on Archdale Road wound up with "ballistic evidence" but didn't go anywhere.
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