Avast ye Dedham swabbies - prepare to be boarded, arrrr

DedhamBlog marvels that Boston officials are considering a request to the Legislature to let them annex part of Dedham so that a developer can turn the old Stop & Shop warehouse complex on the Readville/Dedham line into a housing development:

... I'd say (Campanelli Companies) must have some pretty deep pockets or some really good friends in high places, but probably both. After all, they're considering a land transfer that hasn't been done in nearly a hundred years with the owners of this housing development as the sole beneficiaries.