Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Holy Tufted Titmouse! Grab your binoculars and learn about birds in Millennium Park.
On Wednesday, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and Mass Audubon are hosting a free bird walk at Millennium Park. The focus will be on winter birds like tufted titmouses, cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, nuthatches, chickadees and more. This event was originally to be held in January, but was rescheduled due to extreme cold. "The bird walk at Millennium Park is a first for this department. We are grateful to Mass Audubon for conducting this walk in our park. Their partnership with the city of Boston is making this possible," said Jacquelyn Goddard, Dir. of External Affairs and Communications, for Boston's Parks and Rec Dept. Those interested can meet at the parking lot near the canoe launch at 3:30 p.m. The event is scheduled …
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Millennium Park, Fallon Field, and the Arnold Arboretum are some of the better known spots to go sledding.
The blizzard has come and gone and the snow remains, so go out and have playing in the snow and go sledding. But that asks the question - where are the best places to go sledding in and around West Roxbury? Millennium Park has got some good hills. On the edges of West Roxbury are Fallon Field in Roslindale at Robert and South streets; and there's also the Arnold Arboretum with the fantastic Peters Hill! So where else do you go sledding in West Roxbury? Where do you recommend? Leave your sledding spots below.
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Arnold Arboretum
125 Arborway, Boston, MA
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Robert St & South St, Roslindale, MA
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Mass Audubon and Boston Parks and Recreation Department's first mutual bird walk is postponed today due to extreme cold.
The birds will be at Millennium Park today, but extreme cold has postponed the bird walk organized by Mass Audubon and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. The West Roxbury Patch thermometer at 1 p.m. today lists the temperature as 10-degrees, which would be even colder atop Millennium Park. The bird walk was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. No future date has been set yet.
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Holy Tufted Titmouse! Grab your binoculars and learn about birds in Millennium Park.
UPDATE 12:50 p.m.: Due to extreme cold the bird walk has been postponed by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. On Wednesday, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department and Mass Audubon are hosting a free bird walk at Millennium Park. The focus will be on winter birds like tufted titmouses, cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, nuthatches, chickadees and more. "The bird walk at Millennium Park is a first for this department. We are grateful to Mass Audubon for conducting this walk in our park. Their partnership with the city of Boston is making this possible," said Jacquelyn Goddard, Dir. of External Affairs and Communications, for Boston's Parks and Rec Dept. Those interested can meet at the parking lot near the canoe launch at 3:30…
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Before Hurricane Sandy started going nuts on Sunday, some of the Parkway's finest canines donned costumes at Millennium Park.
Dogs of all ages paraded in a Halloween Dog Walk on Sunday at Millennium Park before Hurricane Sandy hit. Check out some of the photos submitted by Dianne Maracic. And check out a Patch Photo Gallery of pets in costumes for a Halloween Contest.
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The saga of unleashed dogs continues at Millennium Park. This time an impressionable 4-year-old child fell and got scrapes.
A man told Boston Police that while at Millennium Park an unleashed big dog ran past his 4-year-old son, startling the boy, causing him to fall and get scrapes on his right elbow and right knee. Around 6:01 p.m. on Oct. 20, the man said while he and his son were playing in the picnic area of the upper field an unleashed big black dog came running towards them. The owner was a white female in her 40s, alleged the father. The man told police that the dog continued running by after making no contact with his son, according to a Boston Police report. The dog's owner allegedly stopped and apologized to the dad before leaving the park with the canine. Boston EMS was offered to the boy, but the father declined. Previously, there were …
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Massachusetts now has 1.25 million acres of protected parks and wildlife habitats. West Roxbury has its fair share, too, especially for an urban neighborhood.
Gov. Deval Patrick announced this week that for the first time, the amount of protected open space in Massachusetts exceeds the amount of developed land. With the Department of Fish and Game's recent $2.5 million acquistion in Plymouth of 94 acres of wildlife habitat, the state can count 100,000 acres of open space conserved since 2007, for a total of 1.25 million acres overall. According to the attached PDF map provided by the City of Boston, West Roxbury looks pretty good for an urban neighborhood when it comes to open space - and protected open space. The Stony Brook Reservation, which the attached Bellevue Hill Reservation is also a part of, in the southeast part of West Roxbury, are protected; As are Millennium Park and Brook Farm, …
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Brook Farm Historic Site
670 Baker St, West Roxbury, MA
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department and L.L. Bean are offering free kayaking on the Charles River this summer.
What's better than kayaking on the Charles River - how about free kayaking on the Charles River? The Boston Parks and Recreation Department have teamed up with L.L. Bean to offer free kayaking on the Charles River launching from Millennium Park. L.L. Bean is providing two instructors and 14 kayaks for Saturday sessions open to ages 8 and older. This program is filling up quickly as all June dates are filled! Registration for the July dates will be available shortly at www.cityofboston.gov/parks.
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Millennium Park spring Sundays are full of soccer-clad kids running up and down the fields.
The Parkway Youth Soccer league had a full schedule on Sunday with 29 games among the five age divisions. These photos are from Cathy Dougherty from Under-10 Division, in the heated game between the McNally Blue Thunder and the Steve Joyal Lime at Millennium Park.
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Volunteers are welcome at all of the scheduled neighborhood cleanups.
West Roxbury is really going to shine after this weekend thanks to several scheduled Boston Shines cleanups in the neighborhood. The 10th Annual Boston Shines is happening around Boston neighborhoods this weekend, specifically on Saturday in West Roxbury. Many groups and individuals have already registered to help make West Roxbury shine. The biggest cleanup is of Centre Street, and volunteers are welcome to show up on Saturday to get their hands dirty. "If you do not have a project in mind but would like to participate, please come down to the Hastings Street Municipal Lot," said Christopher Tracy, West Roxbury Coordinator of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services. The lot is at the corner of Hastings and Centre streets. Meet there…
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Hastings St & Centre St, West Roxbury, MA
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Millennium Park
Charles Park Rd & Vfw Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA
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Bellevue Hill Rd & Bellevue St, West Roxbury, MA
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DJ Grace
11:13 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Great photos. Looks like a fun time. more ›