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12/26/2025

BPDA approves B’nai B’rith Rozzie location
Org looks at VFW location next
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Board voted unanimously to approve the proposed 41-unit, all-affordable senior housing development at 4259-4267 Washington St.

The proposal met with mostly positive feedback from residents during the Article 80 Large Project Review process, and B’nai B’rith stated it will look to come back in the future to develop the adjacent parcel.

The approved proposal comes with a bit of a caveat, however. The ground-floor retail space for the proposal will rehouse The Thrift Shop of Boston once completed, which occupies the other building adjacent to the proposed site on the western side.

However, according to a public comment lodged by Thrift Shop Board President Dan Singleton of The Thrift Shop, the rehousing process is not so clear cut. He said The Thrift Shop is still in the “gathering information stage” of figuring out its support of the project.

“As recent news suggests, it is becoming more and more difficult for non-profit thrift shops to find affordable and appropriately sized spaces,” he wrote This proposed Washington St. parcel looks like a thoughtful space. However, our organization is looking at a future with a whole lot less square footage at a greater financial cost. We do not want the community to assume that The Thrift Shop of Boston moving into this space is a foregone conclusion at this juncture.”

It should be noted that Singleton wrote that B’nai B’rith has been nothing but forthcoming and helpful during the process:

“The B’nai B’rith Housing (BBH) team has met with our management and board members a number of times,” he wrote. “The BBH team has been helpful and communicative with our team. We realize that it takes a good while to get all the details about future costs and expenses related to the proposed Washington Street parcel.”

The Thrift Shop of Boston is one of the many fundraising arms of The Home for Little Wanderers, which provides housing and care for at-risk youth across the city.

The BPDA Board appeared to be very enthusiastic about the project.

12/26/2025

School Com goes over prelim budget
Future chopping block discussed
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Norwood School Committee met last week and discussed the item that’s been on the minds of most Norwood property taxpayers for the last few years: the budget.

The Norwood Public School District (NPS) takes up a significant amount of the budget. At last year’s Town Meeting, for example, the General Government side of the budget was about $43 million, whereas the NPS side was $65 million.

Over the past few years, the NPS has been requesting relatively significant budget increases, much of which administrators have said is tied to union contracts with personnel, cost of living increase agreements (COLA), and other obligated cost increases. For example, in previous years’ budgets, total budget increases of 8 percent and 12 percent were tossed around in the early stages of the budget to get to what administrators said was a “level services” budget.

Last year, that budgetary number was reduced from 8.1 percent to 6.7 percent and passed with relatively little opposition, at least at Town Meeting.

NPS Superintendent Timothy Luff said this year’s fiscal year 2027 (FY27) budget would increase by 2.96 percent – or about $1.9 million – and provides level services. He said this happened after extensive conversations with department heads and finding areas that could be reduced without affecting services.

“I am happy to report that the preliminary budget represents a 2.96 percent increase over the current FY26; that’s a substantial reduction of increase compared to last year where we added quite a few positions for our middle school,” he said. “It’s about a 5.3 percent increase in payroll expenses, which is about 4.31 percent of the total budget increase in contractual requirements that we have for staff, and then we have a decrease in non-payroll expenses for 7.5 percent, which is negative 1.35 percent of the total budget increase. The 4.31 and the negative 1.35 get you to the 2.96 total budget increase.”

Luff said there are several factors that got the budget to where it is now, but the biggest by far was that the tuition for Out of District special education students fell by $1.1 million this year when several students age out.

“This is due to some of our larger residential placements moving out, but also I think due to some of the improvements to some of our programs in the schools,” he said.

Out of District placements tend to happen because a student requires services that the district cannot provide, but the student is still legally entitled to them. So the district has to pay to transport said students to a district that does. The state is supposed to reimburse the district for a significant amount through a circuit breaker fund the following year, but it rarely funds what has been promised, putting significant financial strain on districts.

So this $1.1 million reduction is an apparent welcome relief for the district.

Luff also said there are a few reductions in staff through not filling current vacancies, like a library administration assistant because of the new Coakley administrative switch up. He said also that they were able to save $82,000 in the budget because the Coakley project funded all new technology for teachers and students, meaning there is more to go around and be passed down in the other schools.

Another factor was $300,000 in Medicaid funding for three full-time equivalent (FTE) positions.

However, Luff did say that this does not mean the schools will keep this up. NPS Business Officer Sean Mannion pointed out during his in-depth budget conversation that one of the reasons this year’s budget increases are lower than last year’s is because COLA increases did not kick in this year, for example, as well as a lot of non-recurring funds helping out in the form of grants and expiring costs (like the tuition for example).

12/26/2025

MAC combines HPAA art show and holiday reception
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By Susan Kryczka

The Menino Art Center’s (MAC) 36th Annual Hyde Park Art Association (HPAA) Members Exhibition was combined with a holiday reception on Dec.19, featuring 47 pieces that will remain on display through Jan. 9. The show has works done in oil, acrylic, textiles, digital print, enamel, paper mixed media and photography. Award winners were also highlighted with many of the artists available to discuss their work.

“This is what people submitted, which presumably is one of their better pieces,” said the Center’s executive director, Erik Gehring, describing the exhibit in general. Gehring also has one of his own photographs, “Hybrid Yew” in the show.

“I have a whole series of photo abstracts that I photographed in the Arboretum… in the rain, the cloudy conditions really help even out contrasts and subtle colors… what really helps is the water, the saturation,” he said of his process.

“I love to take photographs, but I don’t put them in shows all that often,” said Sasja Lucas, referring to her photography piece, “Structure and Decay,” which depicts an old window/entry into an abandoned building. “I love to get into the details… to find some kind of quirky thing.”

She noted if you look carefully, you will see a little bit of color and black. “The contrast between something that is so strong and boarded up with plywood that has deteriorated,” suggesting it offers more to consider. One attendee said that the written description of the piece “really added to it” and thanked Lucas for including it.

Each artist’s personal story can provide background to the creation of their piece.

“I almost always paint in oil, but I usually do landscape paintings, and they usually have a lot of clouds in them,” said Dotti Baker, whose “Wild White Rose” an oil, depicts one rose. “I have an art teacher. She suggested I do the white flower to help me be able to do clouds better, because of the shading I would have to do on the flower.”

Baker agreed that it did indeed help and she’s now moved on to painting fruit. Changing the subject has helped her “smooth out” her painting moving from edges into shading. Baker came late to art, taking art classes after she retired. She said she always wanted to paint and finally had the time. “Maybe a bowl of fruit,” she said when asked about the subject of future paintings.

12/26/2025

Mozart Playground planning meeting one
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By Richard Heath

After 35 years, you could say a playground as heavily used as Mozart needs an upgrade.

The City of Boston administration would agree, and the first meeting to that end was held on Dec. 18 at the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF).

More than $1.7 million has been budgeted by the Boston Parks & Recreation Department (BPRD) and as Project Manager Kevin Bogle said, the ultimate goal is “whoever you are, the park is for you.”

Ground Inc. is the landscape architect, and Olivera Berce, studio director, gave a brief background of the playground built in 1959 to replace the tall, gabled, brick building that housed the Lowell School; itself replaced by the flat, low brick Kennedy School.

Unique among all the playgrounds in Jamaica Plain, from Parkman at Forest Hills to Jefferson at Hyde Square, Mozart has an active, almost proprietary, constituency in the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF).

Berce pointed that out on the PowerPoint timeline with the year 1991 when the playground was last renovated with the involvement of the then-nascent HSTF, who in those days met on the third floor of the MSPCA at the time.

In 2007. Berce explained the stage was added, the playground replaced, and the basketball court repainted.

Project landscape architect Yuhan Ji succinctly described Mozart as “not just a playground but an important space for community expression.”

Yuhan went through the customary site analysis of the 0.81-acre playground: picnic and chess tables, swing sets, performance space, basketball court, playgrounds, the “Duarte” and “Reach” sculpture and what Yuhan called “flexible space.”

Also to be considered, Yuhan said, were seating, lighting, tree health and surface conditions.

Bogle said that the Juan Pablo Duarte sculpture will remain in place during construction, “a permanent location is part of this conversation.”

No one from the Dominican Foundation of Art and Culture, which promoted the bust, was at the meeting.

Yuhan opened the floor and one resident from Sunnyside Street said, “almost none of my neighbors use it [Mozart]. It’s mostly young guys who play basketball,” he said. “You have to make it comfortable for the whole population, you need to find that out, something there to attract them.”

Another speaker named Ed said he “lives across the street, second floor” disagreed.

12/26/2025

BOH discusses vaccines, Comp Plan and formula recall
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By Jeff Sullivan

The Norwood Board of Health met recently and discussed the recent recall of the baby formula brand ‘By Heart’ that was announced originally last month.

The formula was tainted by clostridium botulinum and caused a large outbreak across the country. Norwood Health Department Director Stacey Lane said the retailers in the immediate Norwood area have removed the affected products – which include formula cans and “anywhere packs” – from their shelves, but she said she wanted to keep spreading the word to parents regardless.

“Even though the inspectors have gone out and made sure it’s been pulled from stores and the stores have all been notified, sometimes somebody might have given you some, you got it free or you have it at home and might not be aware,” she said. “Just be aware of what infant formula you have at home.”

Board of Health Member Joan Jacobs asked Environmental Health Agent Angelo De Luca about what inspection procedures he and fellow Health Inspector Kyle Simpson undertook when they found out about the outbreak. He said they did a visual inspection to make sure.

“Shaw’s was carrying them, but they did remove them from their shelves,” De Luca said. “They had to fill out some paperwork from the state that I sent out to them that they returned to us listing their product and that went to the state. So the items were already off the shelf at that time, and they were sent back to the warehouse to be destroyed.”

Lane said she wanted to make sure that anyone who might have had product tucked away in their shelves or who were perhaps grandparents who keep formula for visiting infants were aware of the outbreak and that they take appropriate steps to remove the formula from their houses.

Norwood Public Health Nurse Diana Hillery later confirmed Norwood has seen no cases of botulism in infants.

In other news, Town Planner Sarah Dixon came by to discuss the Norwood Comprehensive Plan with the Board as part of the plan’s “roadshow” outreach tour with Norwood boards, committees, commissions and departments throughout Town.

The Comprehensive Plan, also known as a Master Plan, is essentially a wish list for the Town for the next 10 years. Dixon said for this meeting, she wanted to go through the items on said wish list that pertained to the department.

12/26/2025

Keeping life in balance in WR
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By Dilani Yogaratnam

For most people, a sense of balance is creating time for equal parts work and play but as one enters senior life, balance takes on a more literal meaning. As most people know, West Roxbury has one of the highest concentrations of seniors in Boston.

Luckily, Ethos, a non-profit organization aimed at improving quality of life for elders, offers Tai Chi, among many other empowering classes. Recently, volunteer Lois Baho led a Tai Chi class in the community room of the West Roxbury Police Station.

This class is of the Yang style of Tai Chi and is 12 weeks, meeting twice weekly for hour-long sessions. The Yang style typically provides 24 forms, but this particular class focuses on eight of those moves, which students are encouraged to practice at home. In general, Tai Chi is, at least in this form, thought of as moving meditation, including slow, gentle choreographed movements meant to sooth. Ethos also offers Tai Ji Quan, an art form incorporating Tai Chi, strength exercises and breathing technique, as well as a Tai Chi club for those with more experience.

Baho, who has taught for over a decade, gave a brief description of her training guide for the course.

“Dr. Fuzhong Li, PhD, a senior scientist at Oregon Research Institute, developed this initial program for seniors and Parkinson's patients to improve balance. Many of my students over the years noticed a difference sooner. Besides balance, students noticed they had more flexibility, mobility and some even had lower blood pressure,” she said.

Requirements for taking the class are being 60-plus and living in Boston. Joan Nelson, of Mission Hill, said what drew her to the class was the promise of better balance.

12/25/2025

In case anyone missed it:

A bit of an introduction
Dear Readers,
Jeff Sullivan from The Bulletin and The Norwood Record here. Many of you have seen me at your meetings, events, parades, and probably at least one zoning hearing that went three hours past bedtime.

For the past 11 years, I’ve covered just about everything in Boston and Norwood — from neighborhood associations to the federal courts, from space savers to bike lanes — We’ve been there.

I’m writing today with news, bittersweet, but mostly sweet. After decades of service to this community, Paul and Dennis, the founders of these papers, are retiring. They built a strong foundation for local journalism, and I’m grateful for every opportunity they’ve given me as a reporter. Together we’ve weathered a lot, 115 inches of snow in 2015 to a pandemic in 2020, and still kept the paper printing each week. That’s a testament to this community.

So… is this a goodbye letter? Nope. It’s just the beginning. My wife and I have decided to purchase the paper from Paul and Dennis and take on ownership duties. I’ll still be reporting – for the foreseeable future – and our commitment to local, fact-based news will stay firmly in place.

We’re proud to carry forward the tradition Paul and Dennis started back in 1992 (I was 6 – Tommy is still my favorite Power Ranger by the way).

If you haven’t read Paul and Dennis’ goodbye letter to the left, well, I don’t know what to tell you, except go read that. All good? Okay. We completely agree with everything they said regarding ethical local reporting and the need for independent community journalism.

We want to recommit to continue Paul and Dennis’ legacy into another 33 years. Hopefully.

But we also wanted to give you a heads-up about a few updates coming soon.

What’s Staying the Same:

The paper will remain free. Print and PDF editions will continue. Every story will be written by humans, for humans. No AI-written news – ever.

What’s Changing: We’re bringing our online presence into the 21st century with a more accessible, reader-friendly website. Our archive will be easier to browse. You’ll see more from us on social media, and perhaps a newsletter or two. We believe local news should be easy to find, easy to read, and rooted in the community it serves, without mining your data or burying you in clickbait.

And finally:

Thank you. Readers really do make a newspaper. Without you, this would just be fish-and-chips wrapping paper getting blown around by dust devils through an empty street. So thank you for opening the paper each week, for emailing story tips, for saying hello at local events, for holding us to account, for being interesting people to write about, for being there if we have a question, for answering when I call after business hours, and, most importantly, for caring about your neighborhood.

We wouldn’t ever have been here otherwise.

We’ll see you next week.

Warm regards,

Jeff Sullivan

Editor-in-Chief & Publisher

The Boston Bulletin & The Norwood Record

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12/06/2025

Bailey honored for veteran balance
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The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) came by the Norwood Fire Department (NFD) on Monday morning to present NFD Chief Timothy Bailey with the ESGR Patriot Award and an official citation honoring him for his work with active duty soldiers on his staff.

The impetus behind the ESGR and the award is that many employers – sometimes fire departments included – are not always understanding of the commitments U.S. National Guardsmen and Reservists make when they sign up. Many times, according to NFD Captain and U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. First Class Joseph Mawn, employers or managers will try to play soldiers against their commitments or family life in favor of their income.

Bailey said he was “humbled” by the award, and added he did not feel it was a burden or chore to make sure his firefighters could keep their commitments.

“No not really, just treat everyone the same way,” he said. “We have a special group of veterans who work here and it’s a privilege to be their boss.”

About two dozen NFD personnel came out for the award, along with Norwood Veteran Services Agent Derek Wennerstrand. Mawn said Wennerstrand helped provide this honor for Bailey by nominating him with the ESGR.

“I’ve had over three deployments, and then throw in all the weekends, the two-week active duty training, talks at schools, conferences, and all that bologna, with six different chiefs here at NFD, not one of them has given me the ‘you can’t do that,’ or tried to get me to go back to work right away or tried to guilt me into not going to the things I’ve had to go to,” he said. “The only things they’ve said to me are ‘Let me know what you need,’ and ‘Let me know when you’re going to come back.’”

Mawn said this is not always the case.

12/06/2025

Spirits alight at Roslindale Square
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Merely two days after Thanksgiving hundreds were ensconced in holiday spirit at Roslindale Square for the annual Christmas tree lighting.

This year marks the 40th anniversary according to Emma Blaxter, director of Roslindale Village Main Streets (RVMS), which organizes the event. A multitude of families stood excitedly in Adams Park taking in all the Christmas decorations and lights while also enjoying hot chocolate and viewing Santa fulfill Christmas wish lists on a cool night.

After a tumultuous government shutdown, the sparkly distraction appeared very much welcome to the hundreds enjoying themselves in the Square.

RVMS created the tree lighting event because the group felt it would be a good way to draw activity to the Square and be a cool thing to fill the day, Baxter said. This year’s program ran from 3 to 5 p.m., starting with Mayor Michelle Wu and Santa (Roslindale Community School Director Dennis Kirkpatrick) arriving on a fire truck. Wu’s fire truck arrival is part of the tradition and once she and Santa settled in, they invited all the kids to gather near for the grand Christmas tree lighting.

Along with the main attraction, the event offered a performance by City Ballet and musical groups Making Music Matter and JP Honk. Baxter said the ballet was her favorite part.

“So much fun; it was a great interpretation of the classics.”

Emceeing the event was Glenn Williams who runs BNN (Boston Neighborhood Network) Media. He is also a longtime volunteer for RVMS and a community activist.

For many families attending, the get together was as much for them as it was for the kids as it offered a space and opportunity to be among friends and neighbors.

“It was something to do with the kids. This is an area that caters to family-friendly activities,” Jude David said. His daughter Addison seemed giddy and unable to contain her excitement. “I love this whole event but especially seeing Santa.”

David said he is from Hyde Park and wanted a fun night out with his family. They huddled together in line to go see Santa.

While trying to contain the excitement of a little child in a dinosaur jacket, Molly Sass said she enjoyed coming to this annual event to see neighbors and friends while taking in the performances. Michael Brod, also of Roslindale, echoed Sass’ comments and said he appreciates the community creating space for family-themed engagements.

12/06/2025

Chief: crime rate relatively stable, recent incidents still troubling
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By Jeff Sullivan

In the last 30 days, the Norwood Police Department (NPD) has released several incident reports on serious felonies taking place in Norwood, including one apparent fatality.

On Monday, NPD Chief Christopher Padden organized police crime data from 2017 to year-to-date (YTD) 2025. In each category of crime, numbers have not significantly fluctuated. Padden stated that each category is part of the Incident-Base Reporting (IBR) system the department uses.

Definitions are as follows. Group A Crimes are essentially serious violent crimes, categorized as crimes against a person, property or society; each listed separately within Group A. Group B Crimes are less serious crimes, including driving under the influence, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and trespassing.

In terms of Group A Crimes, 2017 had 929 incidents, 2018 had 805, 2019 had 807, 2020 had 756, 2021 had 716, 2022 had 817, 2023 had 845, 2024 had 609, and 2025, so far, has had 635. For Group B crimes, the totals were 448 in 2017, 573 for 2018, 505 for 2019, 365 for 2020, 320 for 2021, 433 for 2022, 438 for 2023, 439 for 2024 and 416 so far in 2025.

The different categories of Group A crimes are shown in the graphic associated with this article.

Padden did state that 2025 is still underway, and those numbers may increase.

Statistics aside, Norwood has seen serious crimes and incidents in the last few months. The Norfolk Country District Attorney’s Office announced on Monday that it had arrested Isaiah Pierre-Mike, 19, of Norwood, for charges of manslaughter and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after an incident at 9 Hoyle St. at around 2 p.m. on Nov. 29. Pierre-Mike was arrested on Monday after an investigation by the Massachusetts State Police.

Pierre-Mike is charged in relation to the death of 25-year-old Anton C. Dowling of Boston, which was originally reported as a shooting. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office stated that emergency room doctors trying to treat Dowling initially believed that the wound was from a gunshot, but the Chief Medical Examiner determined that, after an autopsy, the injuries were sustained from a sharp object.

12/06/2025

Doris Bunte apartments update
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By Richard Heath

At the invitation of the Jamaica Plain Housing Committee (JPHC), Joe Bamberg, chief of planning, construction and development at the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) came to the Nov. 18 committee meeting to report on Doris Bunte Apartments (DBA) and to clear up some misunderstandings.

To anyone living east of the Orange Line, Doris Bunte Apts is the 20-story tower in the heart of Egleston Square, seen from as far away as the Arnold Arboretum’s Peter’s Hill (or Hemlock Hill, if you want a little rougher climb).

Bamberg provided information on the modernization and rehabilitation of all 165 apartments and the common areas.

Bamberg was joined by Raul Leon, director of asset management and property manager of Doris Bunte Apartments.

As first reported by The Bulletin, the project notification form was filed with the Boston Planning Department on Oct. 15, 2021, an Article 80 meeting was held on May 23, 2023 and the project was approved by the Boston Planning and Development Agency Board (BPDA) on June 13, 2023.

“It’s a remarkable history,’ Bamberg said, “An ionic Egleston Square building, 20 stories. A cylindrical building built in 1968, (completed in 1970), designed by Richmond and Goldberg. It’s eligible for the National Register (of Historic Places).

“It’s multi-family housing that serves seniors and elderly disabled.”

In November 2020, the BHA received approval from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to convert DBA from standard public housing funding to Section 8 funding.

“What HUD gives in public housing is pretty meager,” Bamberg said. “A one-bedroom is $1,100. Section 8 is tied to market rates; it gets a higher subsidy. A one-bedroom is subsidized at $2300, or 30 percent of what a tenant earns.

12/06/2025

WR Toilet Bowl: ‘going’ strong since 1952
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By Jeff Sullivan

The West Roxbury Toilet Bowl Thanksgiving game may not be the cleanest football you can go out to see on Thanksgiving morning, but it’s a tradition that’s been going strong for 73 years. That’s how long the tradition has been in existence.

Organizer Richie Moses said they took 2020 off because of COVID-19, but stipulated that they have had now, after this past Thursday, 72 total Toilet Bowl games in the neighborhood.

The colorful euphemism for the annual game doesn’t stem from the fact that the game is played over a sewer/drainage basin. In fact, construction of the sewer was actually a great improvement for the players as the Draper Field, behind the Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF) Draper Pool, used to regularly flood into a muddy mess. Yet they played anyway.

“This place used to be all mush and slush back then,” Moses said. “But it’s been nice weather for the past 10 or 15 years… But if you came down here a few years ago, you would have seen us up to our waists in muck.”

And this is somewhat verifiable, because if you go to the city’s map database website – https://tinyurl.com/zcc2v9ah – you can see definitive brown spots on the borders of Draper Field from the city’s 1955 aerial map of the city.

Luckily, Thursday’s game had solid ground beneath it while the black shirts played the green shirts for the coveted Toilet Bowl Trophy – which is wrapped in toilet paper.

Moses said 13 neighborhood friends started the tradition back in the 50s including Tom Grattan, Nick Tobichuk, Barry Krug, Bob Guiney, Bob Runci, Jerry Quinn, Fred Grattan, Frank Crossen, Larry Deraney, Paul Mantosh, Dennis Guiney Jr., Dan Lavache and Leo Glover. Moses pointed out all the houses of the founders that can be seen from the field as the game went on.

He said the day has a way of generating new recruits as it passes down (or runs down, depending on the play) the generations.

“It’s a neighborhood thing; every generation comes down,” he said. “The younger kids would throw the football around on the sidelines while the founders would play the main game. As the kids got older they infuse themselves into the game itself, IF they could handle the punishment.”

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