One dead in Arborway crash; Tony's Place in WR to stay open
One dead, one injured in Arborway crash
One person died and another had to be extricated from a vehicle by firefighters after a crash on the Arborway just before South Street shortly before 1:50 p.m. on Sunday.
Auction of Tony's Place in West Roxbury has been canceled
October 9
A scheduled auction of the Tony's Place building and land on Oct. 29 has been canceled, according to the auction firm hired by the bank holding the mortgage for the venerable West Roxbury restaurant at Baker and Spring streets.
Don't worry, they still have the 12-foot-tall skeletons at the other end of the store
October 11
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at one end of the West Roxbury Home Depot, where they've separated Santa by the entire length of the store from the 12-foot-tall skeletons because you know they'd start brawling and it would get ugly, especially once they got hold of the chainsaws and sledgehammers.
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Say ahh!
October 11
Mary Ellen spotted this great blue heron today, looking like the next step is a tongue depressor, along the Charles at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Head-on car crash blocks E Line service on South Huntington Avenue
October 11
Two drivers collided head on right on the trolley tracks on South Huntington Avenue near the Back of the Hill stop around 5:35 p.m., blocking Green Line service in both directions, but leaving enough room for 39 buses to squeeze by.
New spot is eggsactly what Cleary Square needed
October 11
Sunrise Cafe Bagels & Diner recently opened in the space at Hyde Park Avenue and River Street in Hyde Park where the Papa Gino's used to be (in fact, they kept the big old pizza oven).
Boston to start free bus service to get residents to T hubs in several neighborhoods
October 10
The Dorchester Reporter has the scoop on the city's plans to expand the Link shuttle service already running on Mission Hill to Allston/Brighton, Roxbury, Mattapan and Charlestown - to better connect those neighborhood's residential areas.
Hunt on for couple who stole tips from a Jamaica Plain take-out place
October 9
Egleston Square Main Street has posted a photo and video of a couple who walked into Pika Pollo, 3160 Washington St. in Jamaica Plain around 7:40 p.m. on Thursday and, as a worker put together an order, busied themselves removing dollar bills from a counter box meant for tips - and then once the box was empty of paper currency, grabbed the box as well.
DA: Suspect in latest Hyde Park murder turns self in
October 9
Christian Peebles, 18, turned himself in to Boston Police this morning on charges he gunned down Darryl Aleo, 20, at the Akiki gas station at 1171 Hyde Park Ave. Wednesday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Man charged with swinging a machete around in Brighton yesterday is also charged with triple stabbing in Allston last week, police say
October 9
Boston Police report arresting a Brighton man they say was swinging a large knife around on Leo Birmingham Parkway and Waverly Street in Brighton around 4:50 p.m. on Thursday.
Grove Hall woman gets 5 to 7 for death of her infant daughter from malnutrition and fentanyl and cocaine poisoning
October 9
Raynell Reed, 32, pleaded guilty today to involuntary manslaughter for the death of her five-week old daughter in January of 2025 due to causes the medical examiner said included malnutrition and fentanyl and cocaine poisoning, as well as sepsis, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Boston to make safety changes at Mission Hill intersection where city bicycle activist was killed
October 9
WBUR reports city officials today announced changes to the Tremont Street intersection where Louisa Gag was killed.
Fire and ice: Two lawsuits filed at opposite ends of the thermometer
October 9
One negligence lawsuit recently filed in Suffolk Superior Court involves damages from a fire allegedly caused by faulty maintenance of a hotel restaurant's kitchen exhaust system, while another is over damages allegedly caused when a seafood distributor's new freezer system fritzed out, melting tons of frozen fish.
Remembering the MIT researcher who helped get us to the moon
October 9
MIT News recounts the life of Margaret Hamilton, who helped write the software that got astronauts to the moon, and who died last week at 90. An Indiana native with a BA in mathematics, she moved here in 1959 with her husband, who was pursuing a law degree.
