Friends of Mark and Jess Tobin and their three young children - all under 3 - have set up a GoFundMe page to help the family after all five were hit and injured by a pickup whose driver somehow managed to ram out of the municipal lot at Centre and Hastings streets in West Roxbury Friday morning. Read more.
West Roxbury
When Gannett shut the Allston/Brighton/West Roxbury/Roslindale Transcript Tab in print a couple weeks back, it said readers could keep getting their news online.
Boy, howdy, they weren't kidding: The site is now providing news that hasn't even happened yet, and won't for another 33 years: Read more.
On a walk to the marsh in front of the closed West Roxbury High School this morning, Mary Ellen noticed one of the BPS buses that had been parked there went up in flames at some point since her last visit a couple weeks ago.
A trio of trees at the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury this afternoon.
GateHouse's Transcript Tab, smushed together out of two papers in 2019 to serve two sets of Boston neighborhoods with little in common, has sighed its last and quietly disappeared into the pages of history. Read more.
Mike B. spotted this eager beaver in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning - and some of its toothwork. Read more.
A Brookline landlord will soon file formal plans to replace the former Uno headquarters on the road to Millennium Park in West Roxbury with two five-story residential buildings, in a formerly quiet commercial area rapidly turning into an apartment zone. Read more.
Mary Ellen watched a city mower doing the fall trim around the hill at the center of Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Although the top of the hill consists mainly of heavily manicured soccer fields, the sides are allowed to grow wild - but not too wild, to block the growth of any trees or other plants whose roots might puncture the liner.
Meanwhile, up in Downtown Crossing, crews were doing their annual post-time-change emptying of planters: Read more.
Ed. election-night note: Perhaps, based on tonight's results, I should have gone with a headline like "Tiny minority of MAGAts waste money to rent electric signboard in West Roxbury."
Election Day dawned at the Holy Name Rotary in West Roxbury as it always does: With the fence along Holy Name School festooned with candidate signs. This year, they were joined with a highway sign blaring out the phrase the slightly more polite insurrection supporters use instead of "Fuck Joe Biden."
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 1524 VFW Parkway around 1 a.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire at the Pradhana yoga studio.
No injuries were reported; the cause is under investigation.
Mary Ellen spotted this young red-tailed hawk at Millennium Park in West Roxbury at dusk yesterday - still too young to have a red tail.
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about a Masshole at the rotary where West Roxbury and VFW parkways meet in West Roxbury: Read more.
Mary Ellen watched the sun go down at 5:52 or so today at the athletic fields at what used to be West Roxbury High School.
From West Roxbury to Mattapan to Dorchester, people were reporting helicopters tonight, and not just your basic news copters, but big-ass, low-flying behemoths that rattled windows and annoyed the more skittish pets.Read more.
If you walk up Washington Street along Stony Brook Reservation in West Roxbury, you might come across this ancient New England Telephone & Telegraph manhole cover in the sidewalk - along with several old Edison Electric Illuminating Co. covers: Read more.
As the fallout over her most recent flier (scroll down, past the racist Easter-egg item), District 6 council candidate Mary Tamer today apologized - not long before she was scheduled for a meet-and-greet in Jamaica Plain, where the reaction has been, oh, a tad more negative than in West Roxbury. Read more.