Peabody

Mulch madness: Tons of mulch erupt in flames, shut down 128

adamg — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:07:41 +0000

Channel 5 reports on the fire in a storage yard at 95/128 in Peabody.

Photo by the Salem Evening News.

City ordered to pay medical bills for teacher injured on school-sponsored ski trip

adamg — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:57:44 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that teachers who chaperone ski trips shouldn't have to worry about medical bills if they suffer their own ski injuries while monitoring slaloming students.

The ruling comes in the case of a Peabody math teacher injured during a 2004 ski trip - whose medical bills the city of Peabody had refused to pay.

Peabody and 9/11

adamg — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:55:45 +0000

Karl reads how Peabody police officers got 9/11 declared a day of overtime in exchange for drug testing, says he doesn't get it:

... I can see NYC police (and fire, and paramedics) fighting for such a thing since, you know, since they were the actual people who a) helped at the site and b) lost hundreds of their peers that day. But Peabody? ...

Perhaps it's time to move...

jscg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:47:28 +0000

The Boston Herald reports:

For the third time in a little over a year, residents of a Peabody apartment complex were forced to flee as their flame-plagued complex caught fire again.

A three-alarm blaze broke out on the roof of a building at the Highlands at Dearborn yesterday after a lightning bolt struck.

Peabody apartment building goes up in flames

adamg — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:51:21 +0000

Timothy Haroutunian works in Peabody and saw the fire on his way home:

... I was stuck in the traffic and when I looked over and saw the flames and the apartment burning, it looked awful.

One of my friends from work lived there and lost everything. Not only did she lose her apartment and all her possessions, she also lost her two cats who were trapped inside while she was at work. We are setting up a collection at work to help her. ...

First King Arthur's, now the Golden Banana: Man shot outside strip club

adamg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:23:17 +0000

Herald: One injured in Golden Banana shooting.

Earlier:
Teenager sought for fatal King Arthur's shooting.

A traffic tie-up that really stinks

adamg — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:45:58 +0000

The Globe reports that a tractor trailer hauling garbage overturned at the interchange of Rte. 1 north and I-95 in Peabody during the morning rush hour today, closing the ramp.

Garbage trucks had to be called in to haul off the stuff. What happens if one of them overturns?

Romney and flooded Peabody

adamg — Tue, 16 May 2006 20:39:53 +0000

Under the Golden Dome rains on Mitt Romney's Peabody sympathy. Seems that after the last time Peabody flooded (all of two years' ago), Romney vetoed a measure to spend $5.7 million for flood control in Peabody - money that would have meant an additional $20 million in federal aid for the work.

Blue Mass. Group has more.

But, hey, at least the flooding's good for a laugh

Trapped in her house

adamg — Mon, 15 May 2006 19:51:26 +0000

Honk reports from her home in Peabody:

... Peabody is notorious for flooding but this is easily the worst I've ever seen and it's still fucking raining. Numerous businesses downtown are completely flooded and the damn water keeps rising. It's a little scary, to be honest. Our garage has over four feet of water in it and you can see things floating around in there. ...

She had to promise a friend that if the waters keep rising and she has to go up to the roof, she won't misspell "HELP."