A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about graffiti reading "BLUNCH" on some city big-belly trash cans on Corinth Street in Roslindale: Read more.
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By adamg - 12/4/21 - 4:07 pm
After two years of extensive renovations, the round Roslindale Square BPL branch re-opened today. Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/21 - 1:19 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposed 31-unit apartment building at Washington and Basile streets that would have offered far more affordable apartments than required and below-market rates to two locally owned businesses now on the site because the building would have no parking for residents.
The action came even as the city looks to eliminate parking requirements for new buildings that offer large numbers of subsidized units as a way of encouraging such apartments. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/21 - 11:33 am
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a proposal for a take-out bakery on Birch Street in Roslindale Square that would serve baked goods infused with marijuana. Read more.
By adamg - 8/13/21 - 3:00 pm
Workhub at the Substation, the quieter of the two tenants in the Roslindale Substation in Roslindale Square announced today that it will be expanding into the cavernous former transformer room that Turtle Swamp Brewing is vacating in September and will continue to run a weekend beer hall and community gathering spot there. Read more.
By adamg - 8/11/21 - 7:26 pm
West Bridgewater Police report arresting an armed Akil Jackson on a variety of charges - including murder for the gunshot death of his girlfriend Alicia Heywood in the parking lot of her Roslindale Square workplace on July 29. Read more.
By adamg - 8/11/21 - 12:54 pm
Turtle Swamp Brewing announced today it will be closing its beer garden in the Roslindale Substation next month. Turtle Swamp says it will be open Fridays and Saturdays for the rest of the month and just Saturdays in September, with its last day being Sept. 25, to coincide with the renewed Roslindale Porchfest.
That will leaves Distraction Brewing on Belgrade Avenue for Squaregoers seeking locally brewed beer.
By adamg - 8/4/21 - 8:21 pm
The Cooperative Bank, headquartered on Belgrade Avenue in Roslindale, has set up a fund to help the family of Alicia Heywood, who was shot to death last Thursday in the parking lot of Sullivan's Pharmacy next door, where she worked. Read more.
By adamg - 8/3/21 - 10:00 am
Akil Jackson.
Live Boston reports police are looking for Akil Jackson, 41, in connection with the shooting murder of Alicia Heywood in Roslindale Square on July 29. Read more.
By adamg - 7/29/21 - 2:52 pm
Update: Victim identified as Alicia Heywood, 42, of Easton.
Boston Police report a woman was shot at Birch and Corinth streets in Roslindale Square shortly before 1:20 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/21 - 2:04 pm
Nope.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today voted 4-2 to approve Juan Chavez's proposal to replace his auto-collision shop on Washington Street at Bexley Road with a four-story apartment/commercial building - which means the proposal was actually rejected because it didn't get the 5 votes required under state law. Read more.
By adamg - 7/4/21 - 9:48 am
Joe D. shows us something Roslindale hasn't seen in decades: Sunday service on the Needham Line, part of the T's post-pandemic commuter-rail schedule changes.
By adamg - 6/5/21 - 11:09 pm
After connecting thick wires to a large slab of concrete, workers jumped off to help steady it as the crane lifted it to the bridge.
After one crew spent last night on equipment that gnawed away the old Needham Line bridge over Robert Street in Roslindale Square, another crew came in this morning to get the new bridge into place and ready for trains on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/27/21 - 10:14 am
A Belmont teacher who also bakes cakes and toaster pastries has rented the space next to the Birch Street wine shop, where the cheese shop used to be, for a bakery. Read more.
By adamg - 5/5/21 - 9:47 pm
Boston Police are looking for three guys they say broke into Bob's Pita Market, 4198 Washington St. in Roslindale Square early on April 25, found nothing of any value worth stealing, then beat up a store employee who responded to the alarm they triggered, took his car keys, beat him up again when he came after them, then fled with nothing when somebody who happened to be driving by stopped to see what the commotion was about. Read more.
By adamg - 4/9/21 - 2:54 pm
Yesterday, a trucker delivered this oversize-load sized steel beam to Robert Street in Roslindale Square so that, starting at 4 a.m. on Saturday, workers can begin to replace the bridge that now carries the Needham Line over the street. The bridge dates to 1898.
By adamg - 3/24/21 - 10:14 pm
Napper Tandy's on Washington Street in Roslindale Square reports it's getting ready to re-open after months with its doors shut due to Covid-19 - and it's looking to hire "bartenders, servers, cooks, and dishwashers."
By adamg - 3/21/21 - 2:30 pm
Driver managed to flip his car at South Street and Taft Hill Terrace in Roslindale Square early this morning. No injuries.
By adamg - 12/29/20 - 3:02 pm
Robert Orthman can confirm that this sign outside the Village Market in Roslindale Square is accurate.
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