Boston Police report officers responding to an "officer in trouble" call from Canterbury Street off Walk Hill Street late Friday found the road clogged with more than 100 vehicles - and some party-goers jumping on the pickup of a DYS officer and banging on his windows. Read more.
Once people in the line outside the Bates got in, they got to stand in another line. Photo by Jessica Burko.
Update: At 7:36 p.m., the Boston Election Department reported that several precincts across the city had run out of ballots. Department said anybody in line at 8 would be allowed to vote.
Around 5:10 p.m., voting came to a halt at ward 18, precinct 10 at the Bates School in Roslindale: Poll workers had run out of ballots to give to voters. Read more.
Photo by a roving UHub photographer
The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.
Thomas and Joe DeMasi, Teresa Marx and Sam DeMasi pose in front of their annual Halloween creations. See larger.
The DeMasi-Marx family gathered around their 12-foot Home Depot skeletons this afternoon, before the start of the annual Tyndale Street Halloween fest in Roslindale. Read more.
New Flora Way sign at intersection with Walter Street.
Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents gathered with city and Harvard officials yesterday to dedicate the new name of the street that bisects the Arnold Arboretum, in honor of an enslaved woman who lived nearby. Read more.
The Globe reports a federal judge yesterday sentenced Stash's owner Stavros Papantoniadis, 49, of Westwood, to 8 1/2 years in federal prison for his conviction in June on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor after a trial that included accounts of him bullying, beating and harassing his workers for years. Read more.
Hot off the presses: Zyber delivered Waterman News yesterday.
As a reporter, you know you've established a beat when people start e-mailing you tips.
Joseph Zyber is getting e-mail tips, four months after he started writing and publishing Waterman News, a weekly newspaper that covers his home street of Waterman Road in Roslindale. Read more.
Guira & Tambora, 4014 Washington St. in Roslindale, is seeking to extend its closing time from 1130 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends to 1 a.m. - and to build an addition to its front to provide takeout.
The city Office of Neighborhood Services is holding a Zoom meeting for nearby residents, staring at 7 p.m., tonight. The proposed changes will need the approval of the Zoning Board of Appeal and the Boston Licensing Board.
Yesterday at the site, where the new jazz club and cafe will go.
The developers now turning a one-story storefront building on Poplar Street in Roslindale Square into a four-story, nine-unit condo building say they are also fitting out the first floor for what would be the neighborhood's first jazz club and a "low-carbohydrate, low-triglyceride" cafe focused on sandwiches made with lettuce wraps instead of bread. Read more.
The owner of a Haitian restaurant on Hyde Park Avenue today described his plans to add jazz and dancing to his offerings should he get one of the three all-alcohol licenses the city has to dole out in 02136 over the next year. Read more.
Ed Grzyb watched Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS in the west over Roslindale around 7:30 tonight.
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission reports a water-main break in Brookline on Wednesday is continuing to affect water pressure and color in some areas "in the southern parts of Boston." Read more.
Tom Leonard spotted the aurora right over his house in Lower Allston - looking west on Athol Street - around 7:20 p.m.
Kevin D. Jordan spotted the lights around the Needham TV towers - and he reports that unlike last time, they were definitely visible with the naked eye, even if only briefly: Read more.
The Boston Public Improvement Commission today approved renaming the road that bisects the Arnold Arboretum as Flora Way, to honor a Black woman enslaved by a nearby landowner in the 1700s, the Rename Bussey Street group of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents reports. Read more.
The City Council agreed today to look into the environmental and safety issues related to plans for at least two industrial-sized electricity-storage plants, one on the aptly named Electric Avenue in Brighton, the other on a wooded hill behind the Stop & Shop mall on American Legion Highway on the Roslindale/Hyde Park meet that was most recently in the news for being the summer home of Moodini the Steer. Read more.
The annual Roslindale Parade kicks off at 1 p.m. on Sunday in Roslindale Square for the annual walk down Belgrade Avenue.
Alleged walk-up deposit at a drive-thru ATM in Needham by gang member Brandon Baez (from affidavit).
Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.
The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.
The rain date looks like it could be rainy, too, and it's supposed to make like Francis and lighten up later today, organizers say.
Firefighters fight brush fire in Stony Brook Reservation. Photo by BFD.
Boston firefighters have been busy battling brush fires this weekend, first in Stony Brook Reservation yesterday and then in Franklin Park today - after more than three weeks without any rain. Read more.
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