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By adamg - 9/29/20 - 8:48 am

Jamaica Plain News reports on a collaboration between Sazama Real Estate and Fiore's Bakery on South Street in Jamaica Plain: The real-estate office has set up in the space where Fiore's had tables in the Before Times.

By adamg - 9/8/20 - 10:50 pm
Boston School of Modern Languages in Roslindale.

The owner of the one-time church turned school of English behind the Roslindale Village commuter-rail stop has sold it for $2.28 million to an academy based in the Longwood Medical Area that prepares bright but under-educated Boston eighth graders for high school. Read more.

By adamg - 9/1/20 - 12:48 pm
Big hole in Bg Lots truck

Big hole in Big Lots truck. Photo via Mike.

A bit of trucking excitement enlivened a normally quiet stretch of South Street in Jamaica Plain at lunch time today when the driver of an 18-wheeler thought it would be a good idea to turn onto McBride Street only to learn it wasn't. Read more.

By adamg - 8/25/20 - 1:11 pm

The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports a crew is at Centre and South streets in West Roxbury, where they've shut off a water main so it can fix a leak in the big pipe.

By adamg - 8/15/20 - 12:00 pm

Henry's Market, 892 South St. in Roslindale and Sava's, 150 Bennington St. in East Boston, go before the Boston Licensing Board next week for permission to extend their current beer-and-wine licenses to include harder alcoholic beverages.

The board's Zoomed hearings begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.

By adamg - 5/27/20 - 11:48 pm

Around 11:30 p.m. by a guy wearing a black mask who fled down Jamaica Street and St. Rose Street. Not long after, police nabbed a suspect at South Street and the Arborway. Read more.

By adamg - 4/10/20 - 12:45 pm
Banner in Roslindale that says: Stay home!

A plea from some folks who live at South and Congreve streets in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - 11/27/19 - 9:03 pm

At least five shots fired from the Metcalf Court parking lot around 8:50 p.m. One round entered the Happy Market across the street. Nobody hit.

By adamg - 9/28/19 - 12:44 pm
Crash and South and Centre streets

Evan Judd reports on this crash on South Street where it joins Centre Street near Holy Name in West Roxbury:

Someone just drove their SUV into a parked car.

By adamg - 2/27/19 - 11:44 am

Gerly Adrien at Tipping Cow in Somerville reports Tipping Cow and a couple of partners will be replacing Monumental Cupcakes on South Street with Monumental Market, which will feature ice cream, nut-free baked goods and coffee.

By adamg - 1/23/19 - 3:19 pm

Monumental Cupcakes reports it's been sold and its South Street storefront will be turned into something else. To its credit, the place survived long past Peak Cupcake and outlast most other Boston-area places with "Cupcakes" in their names - although unlike many of those other places, it also offered baked goods besides cupcakes.

By adamg - 1/10/19 - 9:56 pm

Henry's Market, 892 South St. in Roslindale, was held up around 9:30 p.m. by a man who showed a gun, took cash, then ran up South Street towards the parkway. Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/18 - 10:33 pm
Before and after images of Roslindale pot-shop proposal

Mitch Rosenfield with current photo of building and rendering of proposed shop.

Three main types of people attended a community meeting tonight on a pot shop proposed for the intersection of South and Walter streets: People who support the idea of a locally owned shop, especially one in a long derelict storefront; people who don't object to the idea of a pot shop in Roslindale in general, just not at that location; and a smaller group of people who begged the would-be operators to think of the children and not open anywhere near families and Fallon Field. Read more.

By adamg - 12/3/18 - 1:37 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeals last week approved plans by Wallpaper City on Poplar Street to add two floors with a total of eight apartments. Read more.

By adamg - 12/3/18 - 10:10 am

Pot-shop proposals are popping up like daisies across Boston:

On Tuesday, Jody Mendoza and her husband, Richy Peña, hold an outreach meeting for their proposed Mojos pot shop at 1292 Blue Hill Ave. in Mattapan. Read more.

By adamg - 11/28/18 - 2:19 pm

Shortly after 1:30 p.m. at the American Legion post at 280 South St., near the Forest Hills T stop, Greater Boston Radio reports.

By adamg - 9/22/18 - 10:32 pm

Victim identified as Felix Paulino, 25, of Mattapan.

Boston Police report a man, believed to be in his 20s, was shot at the Professional Barber Shop, 140 South St., around 9:50 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

2018 murders in Boston.

By adamg - 8/22/18 - 2:16 pm
Power washing guerilla crosswalk in Roslindale

Ted Siefer watched as a city crew power washed away guerilla street markings on Fairview Street at South Street today. Somebody had painted the markings about three weeks ago at the intersection, where some motorists had decided "Stop" was only a suggestion and pedestrians not really worthy of attention.

By adamg - 7/17/18 - 10:03 am
A lizard in Roslindale
Lizard

OK, OK, it was more of a loungin' lizard, soaking up the sun outside the Citizens Bank on South Street in Roslindale Square.

Adam Kessel, who found the wee beastie this morning, took it home and put it in a comfy box for safe keeping until the owner shows up.

By adamg - 11/28/17 - 12:45 pm

MassDOT reports crews will shut the intersection of South and New Washington streets in Forest Hills this weekend for work related to the Casey Overpass replacement project. Read more.

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