The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the president of the Jamaica Plain Business and Professional Association got nabbed for using his pen to complain about scooters illegally parked on Centre Street connected to ads for a South Boston scooter company.

Is there a collection for the guy?

A group seeking to end turnpike tolls couldn't collect enough signatures to get a toll ban on the ballot, Associated Press reports.

MetroWest Daily News reports.

Paul Levy reports on a near miss. Complete with helpful diagram.

Will wonders never cease?

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District E-5 reports officers responding to a call from Sanborn Avenue around 2:10 a.m. on Nov. 12 that two or three guys were walking down the street opening up cars found:

Just before dawn on Oct. 4, the Cambridge Police gave State Senator Anthony Galluccio a lift home. According to the report, not only was he apparently too soused to drive, he was too drunk to tell the friend who had taken his keys and was giving him a lift that he had moved - the friend drove back and forth on Sunset Road, looking for his house, although Galluccio now lives on Trowbridge. The police drove out to Sunset as well, before Gooch sobered up sufficiently to direct them to his current residence.

The Herald posts a story unlikely to help convince people that Sen. Galluccio hit and ran merely because he had flashbacks to earlier arrests.

Whalehead King notes the Neponset Circle Christmas tree is already in place:

... Office pools have already started to pick the day a placard will be planted next to this tannenbaum. What will the sign say? That is subject for another pool but most bets rest on variations of "Season's Greetings from Mayor Thomas M. Menino." Those are words that warm the heart like cocoa heated a few degrees above tepid. Season's Greetings!

Danielle Ouellette tweeted around 11:30 a.m.:

entrance to storrow by cambridge st totally flooded - at least 8 inches of standing water. the rest of storrow is bad too.

Around 1 p.m., Stephen Goldstein updated:

Storrow Dr westbound is a parking lot.