West-Roxbury News

Numerous West Roxbury residents have submitted nomination papers for Boston's mayoral and city council races.

The mayor last week announced a plan to invest $1.8 billion over the next five years in capital projects across the city, including $1.6 million for a new park near Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the Charlestown Navy Yard.

Here's a sampling of 5 home sales this week. Look at the photo gallery or the easy-to-scan chart below.

Our daily column, 5 Things You Need to Know Today, will help you to get your day started and offer you some fodder for water cooler conversation.

The Beethoven-Ohrenberger K-8 school communities are holding a Bruins Day/No school uniform day for a donation on Friday, with all proceeds going to the Oklahoma Tornado Relief Fund.

A West Roxbury man was arrested on a warrant for selling prescription pills by Boston Police during a citywide active warrant operation.

Ramon Soto stood outside the Election Department on Tuesday, with his father on the phone, as the clock ticked toward the 5 p.m. deadline to get the last-minute lists of nomination signatures into the hands of elections officials.

Kenny Anglemyer, the mentally ill 15-year-old who went missing Monday night after running off from the Brandon School & Residential Treatment Center , has been found.

A former state representative, who once chaired the ethics committee, busted for trafficking methamphetamine near a school was issued a monitoring bracelet if he could post his $10,000 bail after his attorney pleaded with the judge to release his client because he is stricken with cancer.

Democratic US Senate candidate Ed Markey was joined by several local political leaders in a campaign stop at Roche Bros in West Roxbury on Tuesday.

A Bellevue Street home in West Roxbury was broken into and robbed of clothes, and a television, which was ripped from a wall mount.

Boston Police arrested a West Roxbury man for driving under the influence in Roslindale, and arrested his associate for being a disorderly person after allegedly yelling an inflammatory comment while cops were arresting his friend.

Have you "liked" Lord Mayor Richard Gormley's Facebook fan page yet? Updates on what the Lord Mayor is up to in West Roxbury, Ireland, how he's living, and more.

Julia Bean's pre-kindergarten class at the Lowell School could not build a real house for Habitat for Humanity, so instead they constructed some birdhouses that will be sold to raise money for the group that finds homes for families in need.

A New York man was arraigned today on charges of sexually abusing four boys while he was the swim coach at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club during the late 1970s.

This single-family ranch home at 62 Brook Farm Road in West Roxbury is listed for sale at $365,000. It has 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, and a fireplace.

A dog that got loose from its Potomac Street home was quickly found after letting out a yelp from being shot by a BB gun in a neighbor's West Roxbury home.

From a trainwreck in 2010, to a red carpet fashion show with sexy models strutting Spring Street in the newest spring and summer fashions.

Mayor Thomas M. Menino today joined city officials and community leaders at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown to highlight the City's five year, $1.8 billion Capital Plan, which includes 341 projects across Boston and covers the building and maintenance of all the City's infrastructure including roads, buildings, key technology ... (more)

Boston drivers are advised that the annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and other events being held this weekend may delay traffic and will result in additional pedestrian traffic on local streets.