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By adamg - 5/17/19 - 8:55 am
UPDATE: The bear was tranq'ed, it came down the tree and state wildlife officials loaded it into a pickup so it could be taken somewhere safer for both it and people.
There's a bear up a tree in Arlington. Read more.
By adamg - 5/17/19 - 12:34 am
Arlington Police report a police officer on patrol in the Lake Street area responded around 9 p.m. on Thursday to a report of a fire at a rabbi's Lake Street home - and used a handheld extinguisher to douse fire coming from the home's wood shingles. Read more.
By adamg - 5/15/19 - 2:30 pm
Your Arlington reports a May 11 fire, for which police have released video of a possible suspect, is the home of a rabbi who heads the local orthodox Chabad center, which he runs out of his home. The head of the town's Human Rights Commission says there is no current evidence that the fire "was motivated by the identity of the homeowners." Read more.
By adamg - 5/13/19 - 5:26 pm
Arlington Police posted a photo of the aftermath of a driver winding up driving into the Brite White Laundromat at Mass. Ave. and Forest Street this afternoon.
By adamg - 2/17/19 - 10:10 pm
Some of the downed gravestones. Photo by Ken Martin.
WHDH reports more than a dozen gravestones were knocked down at St. Joseph Cemetery, between Baker and Lagrange streets in West Roxbury.
By adamg - 1/14/19 - 8:11 pm
Arlington Police report a local man fell through the ice on Spy Pond this afternoon as he and his wife skated about 100 yards offshore. He was rescued and taken to a local hospital for treatment of hypothermia. Read more.
By adamg - 12/8/18 - 6:20 pm
Several people report spotting some pickup plastered with MAGAcrap - and boasting a plow - being driven around areas today where it's sure to make people cry, like Brighton and Cambridge. Joe Wright got a picture of the pickup and the man behind the stickers in Cambridge, between Harvard and Porter squares. He adds: Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/18 - 1:54 pm
Arlington Police report arresting a Billerica man they say robbed a bank in August and then robbed it again this month - and say they are investigating his possible connection to other robberies.
By ShaneCurcuru - 8/10/18 - 5:14 pm
News vans reporting... news that Alewife is crumbling
PARKAPOCALYPSE? Monday Metrowest Disaster? You choose your disaster title!
Alewife MBTA garage is closed to new traffic; 5 Investigates (broke the story) and other news crews are on scene, I imagine it's almost as good as a snowstorm newscast.
Town of Arlington alerts note that MBTA will be closing the garage over weekend, at least partly closed on Monday, parking at Thorndike field allowed:
Alewife Garage Closures Starting Today Through Weekend
By adamg - 5/21/18 - 12:02 pm
Arlington school and police officials said today they will offer "restorative justice" to the 14 teens IDed as the people who vandalized Arlington High School and spray-painted swastikas and anti-gay slurs on the building on May 2.
Instead of facing criminal prosecution, the teens will be offered a chance at a three-phase program: Read more.
By adamg - 4/14/18 - 8:01 pm
Marc Hurwitz ran across this Big Boy in the Mt. Gilboa area of Arlington today.
By adamg - 3/20/18 - 8:06 am
Thomas photographed the car fire on I-93 south around Mystic Valley Parkway around 6:15 a.m.
By adamg - 11/14/17 - 6:08 pm
Seems David Crosby (of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, and sometimes Young) played the Regent Theatre in Arlington last night. And seems he said some things that might offend the snowflakes who support the current president: Read more.
By adamg - 10/27/17 - 6:02 pm
Arlington Police report a crash at Mystic Valley Parkway and River Street around 1 p.m. today was the result of the driver nodding off on an opioid. Read more.
By adamg - 7/13/17 - 1:10 pm
Ronnie White forwards this photo of two coyotes in Arlington Heights today, wonders if their den was washed away during yesterday's flash floods.
By adamg - 5/17/17 - 3:44 pm
Arlington Police report issuing a citation to the driver of this truck, who proved unable to figure out just how high his truck was today.
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