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By adamg - 11/11/24 - 11:05 pm

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.

By adamg - 7/2/23 - 3:52 pm
Crash scene at St. Michael Cemetery

Crash scene at St. Michael Cemetery on Canterbury Street this afternoon.

Boston Police report arresting a local man on a variety of gun charges early this morning after he allegedly crashed into a State Police cruiser at an entrance to St. Michael Cemetery on Canterbury Street on the Roslindale/Jamaica Plain line around 12:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 1/20/23 - 10:00 pm

WFXT reports somebody was shot outside 950 Canterbury St., near the intersection with Cummins Highway and American Legion Highway, around 1 p.m.

By adamg - 12/6/22 - 11:46 am
Turkey on grounds of pre-release center

Jill Cetel was passing by the Boston Pre-Release Center on the Mattapan/Roslindale line and wonders what the turkey did.

By adamg - 10/26/22 - 9:45 am
635 Hyde Park Ave. rendering

Rendering by Sousa Design.

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans to replace the shuttered 100% Delicias restaurant at Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street in Roslindale with a four-story, 27-unit apartment building and a small ground-floor retail space. Read more.

By adamg - 4/5/22 - 3:54 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today rejected a proposal by St. Michael Cemetery, 510 Canterbury St. in Roslindale, to add four new crematorium bays or "retorts" after nearby residents - including one who said she is planning to be cremated there - raised concerns about mercury and other metal emissions that might land in the area after cremations. Read more.

By adamg - 2/18/22 - 12:51 pm
Rendering of proposed 635 Hyde Park Ave. building

Rendering by Sousa Design.

A West Roxbury developer has filed plans to replace the long closed 100% Delicias restaurant and a long shuttered house behind it at Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street in Roslindale with a $6-million, 27-unit residential building. Read more.

By adamg - 12/25/20 - 11:17 pm

An alarmed citizen filed a 311 complaint late Friday about conditions on American Legion Highway at Canterbury Street: Read more.

By adamg - 9/19/20 - 12:36 pm

A Dedham developer has filed for permission to tear down 100% Delicias on Hyde Park Avenue at Canterbury Street in Roslindale. Read more.

By adamg - 8/7/20 - 10:09 pm

A crash between a motorcycle and a car where Cummins and American Legion highways and Canterbury Street intersect left the motorcyclist with multiple, but not life-threatening, injuries shortly before 10 p.m.

By adamg - 12/6/18 - 1:40 pm
Firefighters help injured person from bus at Hyde Park Avenue and Canterbury Street

Firefighters help injured person from bus. Photo by BFD.

Transit Police report five people suffered minor injuries in a chain-reaction crash on Hyde Park Avenue southbound at Canterbury Street around 1 p.m. that involved a 32 bus: Read more.

By adamg - 12/3/18 - 8:33 pm

NBC Boston reports the man, in his 30s, was found dead around 7:30 a.m. at 1026 Canterbury St., near Cliffmont Street. Foul play is not suspected, but the station interviewed a neighbor, himself a contractor, who had complained to ISD about the quality of renovation work.

By adamg - 6/16/18 - 7:30 pm
Man with parrot in Roslindale

So anybody lose a parrot in Roslindale today? Like on or near Canterbury Street? Because James Jones-O'Brien here was just relaxing in his yard, almost asleep, in fact, when all of a sudden this bird just landed on him, his wife, Angela, reports (after first taking the photo, of course). Read more.

By adamg - 5/20/18 - 12:46 pm
Car flipped over in Roslindale

Sean shows us the car turned turtle at the intersection of American Legion and Cummins highways with Canterbury Street around 11:45 a.m. At least firefighters didn't have to go far to render aid - the firehouse for Engine 53 and Ladder 16 is right at the intersection.

By adamg - 10/25/17 - 10:36 pm

Around 10 p.m., a person walking up Canterbury Street from Hyde Park Avenue towards Sacred Heart School was followed by somebody who punched him several times and took his backpack, wallet and phone. The suspect, described as black, in his late teens or early 20s, with short hair and wearing a black hoodie, fled down Pinedale Road. Police recovered the backpack.

By adamg - 2/27/16 - 4:43 pm

Outside 39 Sherwood St., around 4:30 p.m.

By adamg - 2/22/13 - 12:29 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports one of its fire-box workers received electrical shocks around 11:20 a.m. near where Canterbury Street crosses the Northeast Corridor when the non-powered wires he and a partner were working on came in contact with a 25,000-volt Amtrak wire.

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