Gretchen Van Ness, who came in second to incumbent state Rep. Angelo Scaccia in a field of five in the Democratic primary for the 14th Suffolk state representative district (Hyde Park, Roslindale, West Roxbury) told supporters today she will run again in 2020 but that for now, she will concentrate her free time on working to support Question 3, which would enshrine transgender people's right against discrimination in public places. Read more.
West Roxbury
By adamg - 9/4/18 - 10:40 pm
Angelo Scaccia, who has served in the state House of Representatives since 1973 - except for two years - won re-election tonight in the 14th Suffolk district, which covers Hyde Park and parts of Roslindale and West Roxbury.
By adamg - 9/4/18 - 12:15 pm
Architect's rendering.
A Waltham developer has filed plans for its two-building, 258-unit apartment development along VFW Parkway, between the Boston Trailer Park and Prime Motors. Read more.
By adamg - 8/28/18 - 3:02 pm
MassDOT reports it will be shutting the West Roxbury Parkway bridge over the train tracks near Belgrade Avenue for repairs from Saturday until Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/22/18 - 1:33 pm
From Shurtleff's request to the city.
Hal Shurtleff, a West Roxbury resident and former John Birch Society member, is suing the city for refusing to let him fly a flag with a prominent cross on on one of the three flagpoles at City Hall Plaza for a pro-Christian event he wants to hold on City Hall Plaza on Sept. 17. Read more.
By adamg - 8/22/18 - 10:52 am
A concerned citizen notifies 311 about the decaying former asthma-inhaler plant on Lagrange Street in West Roxbury: Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/18 - 10:51 am
Bonapita, a Downtown Crossing place that features Mediterranean pita sandwiches served fast, has begun outfitting the old Burger Fi place on Spring Street for its second outlet.
The former Burger Fi at 77 Spring St. is also a former diet-burger place and a former Finagle-a-Bagel.
By adamg - 8/17/18 - 6:55 pm
Roving UHub photographer Nancy Reynolds captured the rainbow over West Roxbury during the first storm that came through the area.
Martin Lieberman got to see some rainbow action as well, over Brighton: Read more
By adamg - 8/9/18 - 9:57 am
An annoyed citizen filed a 311 report about the people from New Hampshire who've set up shop at the four-way stop in the middle of Stony Brook Reservation to sell T-shirts:
Someone direct them back to Hampton Beach.
By adamg - 8/8/18 - 9:45 pm
BPD is turn people aroun' so they don't drown on Spring Street in front of the Star Market, while State Police are turning people back on VFW Parkway near the West Roxbury Education Complex, because of the deep downpours this evening.
By adamg - 7/30/18 - 10:01 pm
Shortly before 9:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of his injuries.
A second ambulance was called to the scene for a man who had injuries that appeared to come from being thrown from a car.
By adamg - 7/30/18 - 3:17 pm
Shortly after 2:30 p.m., three vehicles collided where Centre Street veers off from Spring Street, sending four adults and a child to local hospitals. The crash may have happened when one of the drivers suffered some sort of medical emergency.
By adamg - 7/28/18 - 10:56 am
Three possible routes for a West Roxbury parkway. See it larger.
In the mid-1890s, city officials began looking at connecting the new city-owned Emerald Necklace parks with the giant Blue Hills Reservation the state Metropolitan District Commission was putting together just south of the city and the town of Hyde Park. Read more.
By adamg - 7/27/18 - 9:45 am
Progressive West Roxbury/Roslindale isn't endorsing any candidates in the 14th Suffolk state-rep race (Hyde Park, Roslindale and West Roxbury), because neither of the progressive candidates - Gretchen Van Ness and Segun Idowu - were able to get the required 60% of the vote at a recent endorsement meeting. Read more.
By adamg - 7/17/18 - 6:32 pm
Abandoned parking lot next to the trailer park could be torn up for apartments.
A developer has proposed replacing an abandoned parking lot and scrubland on the southbound side of VFW Parkway with a two-building, 258-unit apartment complex. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/18 - 4:01 pm
A West Roxbury dentist charges that Yelp not only refused to remove what he said was a malicious post about his pracitice, it changed the post's status from "unreliable" to "reliable" when he refused to buy ads on the site. Read more.
By adamg - 7/11/18 - 9:46 pm
Mary Ellen watched a deer watching a man who had no clue he had two sets of eyes on him Tuesday morning at Millennium Park: Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/18 - 11:39 am
The Boston City Archives have posted this digitized film reel from 1932, showing the work to widen Centre Street between VFW Parkway in West Roxbury and the Arborway in Jamaica Plain.
A DPW inspector made the film (look for the brief shot of William T. Morrissey, the engineer who later got a boulevard in Dorchester named after him); his son donated it to the West Roxbury Historical Society, which in turn gave it to the Archives.
By adamg - 7/9/18 - 9:25 am
Mary Ellen watched a guy with a parachute and a propeller strapped to his back jump off the top of the hill at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.
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