WBUR reports City Councilor Kendra Lara (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury), was cited for driving an unregistered car with a revoked license, no insurance and an expired inspection sticker for a crash into a house on Centre Street Friday afternoon. Both she and her young son were injured.

It's been warm the last couple of days, but the digital thermometer outside Harry's on Centre Street across from the reclaimed part of West Roxbury yesterday made us wonder if we'd somehow been teleported to Texas. Then it flashed a time of 10:35, when it was really closer to 6:30 p.m., so we realized, phew, we could still get chicken enchiladas in mole sauce at Yucatan Tacos across the street and the signboard was just malfunctioning.

Julia Weeks and her mom were driving on Centre Street near the quarry in West Roxbury today when they spotted some pig. A pig in somebody's front yard. Taking a snooze, as one does when one's a pig in somebody's front yard on a hot, humid day in West Roxbury.

Newly elected State Rep. Bill MacGregor ( West Roxbury, Roslindale, South Brookline) said he will continue predecessor Ed Coppinger's work on several road-safety projects in the district. Read more.

Matt Frank reports from Centre Street in Jamaica Plain:

I was in JP for brunch and stumbled upon First Baptist JP having a big LGBTQ folk dance party outside. This was the church that got hit by anti gay graffiti late last week...They responded by having an impromptu "Love is Love" dance party on their lawn.

Boston firefighters and police responded to Boomerangs, 716 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain around 7:30 p.m. after workers came into contact with a possibly dangerous substance dropped off as a donation. Read more.

Mayor Wu and City Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge told a packed auditorium at the Ohrenberger School tonight they are committed to making Centre Street safer through a reconfiguration that will include reducing the number of travel lanes on each side from two to one, with a new third lane in the center for left-turn lanes at intersections and for various "flex" uses, such as letting first responders speed to emergencies. Read more.

City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.

Update, 5/30: Restaurant allowed to re-open.

A city health inspector yesterday shut Los Amigos, 1741 Centre St. in West Roxbury, for a variety of violations, including hot foods not being kept hot enough, cold items not being kept cold enough, employees not following basic sanitary practices and rodent droppings. Read more.

Marino's goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to add beer and wine to its offerings at its store at Centre and Park streets in West Roxbury. Read more.