Mary Ellen watched the sun come up over the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.
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B’nai B’rith Housing, joined by city and state officials, today officially opened its 1208 Parkway complex of 60 income-restricted apartments off Baker Street in West Roxbury - with its entrance on VFW Parkway. Read more.
An aghast citizen filed a 311 complaint about an incident on Baker Street at Amesbury Street in West Roxbury shortly after noon on Saturday: Read more.
Voters in District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) today solidly rejected one-term incumbent and crash-plagued incumbent Kendra Lara, while voters in neighboring District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) gave the boot to ethics-plagued incumbent Ricardo Arroyo. Read more.
Residents in four City Council districts have preliminary elections tomorrow to narrow the fields in the November elections to two candidates each. There is no preliminary for the four citywide council seats because there are eight candidates, all of whom will battle in November. Read more.
A concerned citizen reaches for the rowboat, then files a 311 complaint about flooding on Partridge Street, near Sparrow Street, in West Roxbury today: Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted this American Copper - a tiny, little butterfly, she reports - in West Roxbury the other day.
The Dorchester Reporter reports that New Balance CEO and 2016 Trump backer Jim Davis, who pumped $1 million into a PAC that failed to keep Michelle Wu from getting elected mayor this week donated $150,000 to a super PAC that is trying to un-elect two of the City Council's progressive members: Kendra Lara in District 6 and Ricardo Arroyo in District 5. The group's ads in the Herald also support John FitzGerald, Frank Baker's choice, in District 3.
Mary Ellen was among the people who went over to Millennium Park in West Roxbury for a viewing of tonight's supermoon. The clouds didn't deter the moon and the mosquitoes didn't deter its watchers.
Rose's Bounty, which has a drive-up food pantry twice a month at the Stratford Street United Church, at the corner of Stratford Street and Anawan Avenue in West Roxbury, agreed last night to try to reduce the impact on neighbors from people coming for food pickups in numbers that remain higher than before the start of the pandemic. Read more.
Baker Street Market owner Louis Dakoyannis tonight showed neighbors his proposal to replace the store at the corner of Baker and Vermont streets in West Roxbury with a four-story, 14-unit condo building that would also have ground-floor space for a new convenience store - but one about a third the size of his current market. Read more.
The three candidates for the District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) City Council seat - incumbent Kendra Lara and challengers William King and Ben Weber - met last night in a Zoom forum sponsored by JP Progressives, Right to the City Vote and MassVOTE.
The top two finishers in the Sept. 12 preliminary will then meet in the Nov. 7 general election for the two-year seat.
Some of the issues: Read more.
Matthew Broude asks:
Does anyone know of any West Roxbury volunteer opportunities for organizations working to alleviate homelessness, poverty, or food insecurity? I’ve found a few by searching, but would love recommendations.
NBC Boston reports Boston election commissioners today rejected demands from Kendra Lara haters that it bump her off the fall ballot in District 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill), concluding they'd failed to provide enough proof that she doesn't live in the district.
Lara said she was in a midst of a divorce when she ran for office and decided she’d rather use her maiden name than her married name – and got approval from the election office to do so.
Maria Daniels, in Harvard Square, was one of many people who looked up after the rain stopped this evening.
In Jamaica Plain, Handmaid saw the rainbows, too, but also a still angry cloud: Read more.
An annoyed citizen filed a 311 complaint about the 5 m.p.h. "illegal signage" somebody who is probably annoyed by speeders put up at one of the intersections of Laurie Avenue and Eastwood Circuit (yes, there are two) in West Roxbury.
There are plenty of big things to see on a walk on the path along the Charles River at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Big trees, big sky and a wide river (now that rainfall is back to normal). But look carefully and there are all sorts of interesting little things to see as well. Read more.