The mural in question.
A West Roxbury resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about what he or she considers a completely "woke" graffiti mural that just went up on the side of the Joyce Kilmer School on Baker Street, in one of the largest spleen ventings we've seen on 311 in many a year: Read more.
The Boston Public Health Commission today announced the year's first batch of West Nile Virus-infected biters in Boston, in several neighborhoods. Read more.
Patrick Brusil makes the bold claim (although it will soon be a Jackson Square landmark since a developer wants to knock its home down for a new residential building).
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There are places to be courteous and let someone in ahead of you, but a Boston rotary is not one of them. A really peeved roving UHub driver from Roslindale is worried somebody's going to get killed if people don't stop stopping in the middle of a rotary to let somebody else into the flow of traffic (reminder for outatownas: People already in a rotary have the right of way): Read more.
Mia noticed a listing for a colonial on Grouse Street in West Roxbury that starts: Read more.
Teddy Ventura poses with fish he caught using some ham from a Dunkin' Donuts sandwich in Turtle Pond.
Christine Ventura of West Roxbury and her son Teddy, 7, pulled over on Enneking Parkway yesterday to try some fishing off the dock at Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation - even though all they had for bait was some ham from a Dunkin' sandwich. Read more.
Ryan spotted two huge deer in the Arnold Arboretum yesterday, one less camera shy than the other.
Mary Ellen reports admission was one buck at Millennium Park this morning: Read more.
At least three drivers got stuck in the raging floodwaters, well, deeper-than-it-looks lake that formed on Spring Street in front of the Star Market plaza in West Roxbury tonight. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted something a little different the other day on one of her walks around Millennium Park in West Roxbury: A slime mold. Read more.
Update: LoRusso Corp. confirms it conducted a blast shortly after 1 p.m. at its quarry at Grove and Centre Street in West Roxbury.
Reports are coming in from West Roxbury, Hyde Park and right here in the UHub Newsroom (OK, our dining room table) of some weird shaking going on shortly after 1 p.m. Read more.
Mary Ellen reports that she and Dolly the Dog came across four egg-laying turtles along the Charles River in Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday (and that she and Dolly kept a good distance and didn't linger so as not to stress them).
Mary Ellen watched a green heron coming in for a landing at Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.
Once down, it quickly composed itself: Read more.
Mary Ellen couldn't help but notice this lupine at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Mary Ellen spotted somebody getting in some morning balance-beam work on one of the picnic benches at the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
The Boston Licensing Board today gave the operator of a barbecue food truck a license to open a permanent storefront at 5272 Washington St. in West Roxbury, currently home to a Salvadoran restaurant. Read more.
Some bloomin' mushrooms on a tree at Millennium Park along the Charles River this afternoon, after the rain had stopped.
The other morning, Mary Ellen spotted this buck at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Read more.
Mary Ellen spotted a bunch of birds at Millennium Park yesterday, including this l'il plumper, otherwise known as a palm warbler.
And there's this common grackle, looking like something you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, or, well, anywhere else: Read more.
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