West Roxbury

Workers at Boston-area enterprise kept falling ill on the job - which involved packaging and selling crack and fentanyl, feds say

By adamg - 12/5/24 - 3:51 pm

Several alleged members of a Boston-area drug ring face court appearances today after their arrests on a charge of conspiracy to sell fentanyl and cocaine - in an operation with growing pains that included the high costs of constantly driving or Ubering between Boston and Providence and employees coming down with work-related ailments, from asthma and neck problems to nausea and drug overdoses, according to documents unsealed in federal court today. Read more.

311 complaint of the day: Busy beavers in West Roxbury

By adamg - 12/2/24 - 11:04 am

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about some demolition work along the path that follows Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury: Read more.

Fire injures three residents on Keystone Street in West Roxbury

By adamg - 11/26/24 - 11:49 pm

Photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 29 Keystone St. in West Roxbury for a fire around 2:30 p.m. Read more.

Friends turned foes gird for battle for car-wash dominance on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury

By adamg - 11/24/24 - 4:00 pm

Seven years after the Boston Conservation Commission gave him approval, a construction company hired by Ronen Drory recently began work to convert a long vacant lot on VFW Parkway southbound in West Roxbury into one of his Prestige car washes - right across from Adam Korngold's Waves car wash on the northbound side of the road. Read more.

West Roxbury gospel-concert organizer sues gospel performer and his talent agency for backing out of an arena concert at the last minute

By adamg - 11/15/24 - 3:11 pm

Ad for the show that still showed Thompson.

Boston Mega Praise, headquartered in an office park off VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, today sued gospel performer Phil Thompson - born in Boston and a former member of a group called Ashmont Hill - and his promoter over the more than $460,000 it says it spent to arrange his attendance at a performance at Worcester's DCU Center last year, which he pulled out of at the last minute. Read more.

Brush fire erupts in West Roxbury woods near rotary that connects its two parkways

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 9:19 pm

Brush fire in the woods off West Roxbury Parkway and Weld Street

The fire, seen from West Roxbury Parkway and Weld Street, photo by Thomas Connor.

Boston firefighters responded to the section of Allandale Woods off West Roxbury Parkway, VFW Parkway and Weld Street for a brush fire shortly before 5:45 p.m. Read more.

Walgreens shuts another Boston pharmacy, this time in West Roxbury

By adamg - 11/8/24 - 11:59 am

Walgreens, which has been shutting Boston pharmacies left and right over the past couple of years, yesterday closed its pharmacy at 1999 Centre St. in West Roxbury. Read more.

Bucolic nature scene that would be even more bucolic without all the tires

By adamg - 11/7/24 - 8:49 am

Deer drinking water with some ducks and tires

Mary Ellen watched a young deer yesterday morning getting something to drink in Sawmill Brook at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, along with some ducks and some tires.

Homegrown Roche Bros. chain to be sold to Connecticut grocery wholesaler, which plans no changes

By adamg - 10/31/24 - 1:52 pm

West Roxbury Roche Bros. this afternoon.

Members of the family that owns Roche Bros., which grew from a Roslindale Square meat market in 1952 into today's Roche Bros. and Sudbury Farms chains, are selling controlling interest in the company to a Connecticut food-delivery concern that has long been the chains' principal supplier of food and other products. Read more.

Little Bo Peep, report to Millennium Park!

By adamg - 10/25/24 - 11:59 am

Mary Ellen spotted a different kind of creature on her morning walk around Millennium Park this morning: This little lost sheep. Little Bo Peep, or perhaps Shari Lewis, will find Lamb Chop on a railing along the lower path, just past the first bridge into the woods heading towards the kayak launch and the lower parking lot.

311 complaint of the day: All the noise, noise, noise, noise down in West Roxbury

By adamg - 10/18/24 - 1:14 pm

Machinery in use outside Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue

A bedeviled resident filed a 311 complaint about the infernal racket outside the Verizon switching station on Belgrade Avenue near Lord's and Lady's Way in West Roxbury: Read more.

Fall along the Charles

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 9:31 am

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Mary Ellen took a morning walk along the Charles in Millennium Park.

Narrow West Roxbury side street to get speed humps in 2026, just in time for planned apartment building to start taking tenants

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 11:40 am

Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.

Brookline water-main break may affect water pressure and color in Boston's southern neighborhoods

By adamg - 10/12/24 - 12:35 pm

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.

Aurora busting out all over

By adamg - 10/10/24 - 8:29 pm

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.

Calm, if brisk, fall morning along the Charles

By adamg - 10/10/24 - 10:44 am

Calm waters and fall trees along the Charles

Mary Ellen looked across the Charles from Millennium Park in West Roxbury at a copse of trees in Needham this morning.

Fabulous feathered fall finches

By adamg - 10/8/24 - 9:33 pm

American goldfinches blend in with fall colors at Millennium Park

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Mary Ellen spotted these American goldfinches in their fall finery this morning at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

Great egret or the greatest egret?

By adamg - 9/29/24 - 12:18 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this great egret doing a little noshing in the Charles River off Millennium Park in West Roxbury the other day.

Butterfly tops up at Millennium Park

By adamg - 9/28/24 - 12:25 pm

Mary Ellen spotted this butterfly grabbing a meal at a flower at Millennium Park in West Roxbury yesterday.

DA says teller at West Roxbury credit union and his brother staged a holdup that unraveled even as they were driving home to Brockton

By adamg - 9/25/24 - 10:55 pm

The Energy Credit Union, 156 Spring St. in West Roxbury, was robbed of nearly $200,000 in a holdup shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday that investigators soon realized was staged by a teller and his brother, posing as a robber, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.