Boston, MA
Home of the Week: In Holbrook bungalow, anything and everything – The Boston Globe
12 months constructed 1946
Sq. ft 850
Bedrooms 2
Baths 1 full
Sewer/water Public
Taxes $4,210 (2022)
Individuals like to call houses, and this home on a Holbrook aspect avenue close to the Braintree line could possibly be referred to as “Simply Proper.” The property is properly south of an acre (0.17), nevertheless it packs fairly a bit onto the lot with out trying crowded. Along with the home, there’s a sizzling tub, backyard, pergola, shed, two patios, a fish pond, stretches of back and front garden, a bathe, and hardscape ribboning to the entrance door.
And the home itself packs loads into its 1,150 sq. ft (counting the partially completed basement right here), similar to a major bed room that accommodates a king-sized mattress and a walk-in closet.
However let’s begin on the sidewalk. The 2-car driveway is to the left of this up to date residence, the place walnut-stained shutters flank the 2 front-facing home windows, providing a lovely distinction to the inexperienced vinyl siding, tan trim, and black window bins. Fairly evergreen landscaping in a spring inexperienced enhances each entrance corners of the house and presents one other texture simple on the eyes.
A walkway of crushed marble and stone slabs curves to the entrance door. Inside, one is met with an L-shaped open flooring plan combining the residing space, kitchen, and eating area, in that order.
The 157-square-foot residing space incorporates a front-facing window, a pair of home windows just under the ceiling on the proper, recessed lighting, a central mild fixture with a glass drum shade, tall baseboards, and board-and-batten wainscoting. Embedded right into a wall that juts out on the proper aspect and boasts a quoin nook is an electrical hearth with a stained walnut mantel and a pretend marble encompass, a consolation characteristic sudden in a home of this measurement.
The flooring on this stage is a mixture of oak and vinyl plank with the looks of hickory.
To the left of the residing space is the doorway to the first bed room, which has the second entrance window. The 136-square-foot area additionally presents a triplex of double-hung home windows, a ceiling fan, board-and-batten wainscoting on a characteristic wall, and a walk-in closet.
Again in the principle residing areas and towards the rear of the house, a door with smoky glass opens right into a full tub that has a single self-importance with Shaker-style doorways and a quartz countertop, cabinetry over the bathroom, two storage nooks, grey vinyl plank flooring, a white shiplap ceiling, and a bathe/tub mixture with black fixtures and a white subway tile encompass.
A couple of steps past the bathtub is the entry to the visitor bed room, which is 100 sq. ft and arrange as an workplace with a desk and a sofa.
Subsequent up is the kitchen (145 sq. ft), which is a mixture of types and colours that works. On one aspect of the area, the smooth-front cupboards are a wealthy blue, and the counters are thick slabs of butcher block, as is the open shelving. The backsplash is ceramic tile, and there’s a pot filler immediately above the gasoline vary. All the home equipment are stainless-steel.
On the opposite aspect of the room, the Shaker-style cupboards are white, the counter tops are an identical manufactured materials, there’s a window over the sink, and the backsplash is a ceramic hexagon mosaic tile. The counter caps off with a peninsula that has seating for 2.
The kitchen ends in a slider to a paver patio earlier than the ground plan takes a pointy left into the eating area. The latter is so sunny that it has a “residing wall” of stained walnut slats containing an herb backyard.
The partially completed basement consists of the laundry connection and an workplace/exercise area.
The sliders within the kitchen open to a yard the place skilled panorama design takes the helm and delivers an leisure spot during which no area is wasted. The slider opens onto a patio and to the left, and behind a cedar fence, is a round sizzling tub. A pathway with slabs of slate on crushed stone results in the rear backyard, a fireplace pit, and a fish pond with a waterfall. There may be an outside bathe, too.
The house has baseboard warmth and sizzling water fueled by gasoline.
Scott Webster of WRight Property in Boston is the itemizing agent. As of press time, a proposal had been accepted on the property.
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Boston, MA
Boston woman works year-round to keep food pantry shelves stocked:
WEST ROXBURY – The holidays are a busy time for food pantries. But with the number of Massachusetts families facing food insecurity now at a staggering 35%, according to the Greater Boston Food Bank, keeping those shelves stocked is a year-round job.
Darra Slagle is passionate about food. And it comes in box after box, bag after bag, to Rose’s Bounty food pantry in West Roxbury where she is executive director.
“I just love doing this. I love feeling like at the end of the day, my job meant something,” Slagle says.
“There’s always something to do”
And she’s tireless, wrangling countless volunteers at the pantry.
“There’s always something to do here,” Slagle said. “There’s so much work that nobody is ever at a loss.”
Rose’s Bounty puts together food bags every week to help 2,000 people in a state where food insecurity reaches one in three households.
“And this city, this state that’s so wealthy that nobody should be going without food on their table,” Slagle said.
Thousands of pounds of food orders
What Slagle gets little of is downtime. When she does, it’s at home making food orders for the pantry. On one day she showed WBZ-TV how she ordered more than 12,000 pounds. She will order 20,000 pounds for the entire week thanks to grants and donations.
“It’s a lot of effort on my part. Spreadsheets, I’m a big fan of spreadsheets,” she said.
Her drive to the pantry may be less than 2 miles from home, but passing these houses every day she says reminds her no one really knows the need behind closed doors.
“There’s probably a lot of mouths in that house to feed. Food’s expensive. Rent’s high,” Slagle said.
That’s what drives her to the pantry every day, ready for the next round of donations that will fill the shelves and help the homebound – the community Slagle wants to make sure doesn’t go hungry.
“It’s a really happy place to be,” she said. “And we’re all working hard to do something good for our community.”
Boston, MA
Minnesota Twins acquire utility player Mickey Gasper from Boston Red Sox for reliever Jovani Morán
The Boston Red Sox continued to rebuild their pitching staff, acquiring left-hander Jovani Morán on Tuesday from the Minnesota Twins in exchange for catcher and infielder Mickey Gasper.
The 27-year-old Morán appeared in 79 games as a reliever for the Twins from 2021 to 2023, posting a 4.15 ERA, striking out 112 with 52 walks and holding opponents to a .208 batting average. He missed all of last season recovering from Tommy John surgery. He originally was chosen in the seventh round of the 2015 draft.
In Gasper, the Twins are getting a 29-year-old who made his major league debut last season and appeared in 13 games with Boston. The switch-hitter was selected by the New York Yankees in the 27th round of the 2018 draft. He was picked by Boston in the minor league portion of the 2023 Rule 5 Draft.
The Red Sox and Twins both currently have 39 players on their 40-man rosters.
Boston, MA
With the addition of Walker Buehler, the Boston Red Sox are starting to look like 2025 contenders
Coming into this winter, it was imperative for the Boston Red Sox to make multiple impactful moves following a disappointing finish to the 2024 season. And in light of the Yankees making several key pivots following Juan Soto’s departure, inactivity from Boston through another offseason wasn’t an acceptable option.
Well, slowly but surely the Red Sox are putting together a solid offseason and starting to look like a team that is serious about getting back to the postseason in 2025.
The Red Sox’s biggest changes have been in their rotation, where they’ve had a serious overhaul. Adding starting pitching was the top priority for chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, and the Red Sox added arguably the best starter on the trade market in Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox. But it takes more than one starter to get through the 162-game grind of the regular season.
The Red Sox then added left-hander Patrick Sandoval, who’s recovering from Tommy John surgery, and they solidified their veteran presence on Monday by adding right-hander Walker Buehler on a one-year, $21.05 million deal. Buehler, who was No. 23 on Yahoo Sports’ list of this winter’s top 50 free agents, brings to Boston’s rotation a veteran arm who has pitched on baseball’s biggest stages and experienced plenty of success. His 18 postseason starts are the most on Boston’s roster by far.
Buehler, 31, had other offers, including a few multi-year deals, sources told Yahoo Sports. But the fit and the opportunity to play for a franchise such as the Red Sox while continuing to rebuild his value after a strong postseason was difficult to pass up, and now the pairing is a win for both sides.
At this point, the Red Sox rotation looks like a combination of Crochet and Buehler followed by 2024 All-Star Tanner Houck, Bryan Bello and Lucas Giolito, who missed all of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. Kutter Crawford and Garrett Whitlock are also options to start. As the Dodgers showed en route to their World Series championship, you can never have too much pitching depth, and such depth will now be a strength for Boston.
With the rotation solidified, the Red Sox’s biggest need the remainder of this winter is a right-handed bat. So as we close 2024, the question now is which bat?
Boston missed out on Soto and several of the top free agents on the position-player market. Yhere are still a few impact players who would fit. Case in point: Teoscar Hernández, Anthony Santander and Alex Bregman are all still available.
Bregman seems like the player who would make the Red Sox’s offseason feel most complete. The two-time World Series champion is unlikely to return to Houston after the team signed first baseman Christian Walker, and Fenway Park would be an excellent fit for Bregman’s offensive profile. It’s not difficult for fans to imagine Bregman in Boston, where he could tap into his pull-side power again.
What’s more, Bregman could play second or third base, which would give Boston flexibility to decide if the Red Sox really want to follow through on the plan to play Rafael Devers at first base and trade Triston Casas or if they’d rather keep Devers at third and Casas at first and have Bregman play second for the first time in his career.
The Red Sox’s place in the American League’s pecking order has definitely improved this offseason, particularly with teams such as the Astros and Guardians, two of the top squads in the league the past few years, retooling their rosters and the Baltimore Orioles relatively inactive thus far. If one or two more moves fall into place for the Red Sox, it’s reasonable to expect them to make a significant leap in the standings next season.
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