Woburn

Multi-car crash jams 128 south in Woburn

adamg — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:38:44 +0000

Bad crash in Woburn

Pete D. captured the scene on 128 just as the first ambulance was driving up around 1 p.m.

Police officer shot in Woburn jewelry-store robbery

adamg — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:10:10 +0000

AlertNewEngland and Stephen Walsh report on the manhunt for the suspects - one of whom may have gotten shot himself - in the botched robbery and shooting at 186 Cambridge Rd.

Last Dec. 26, another Woburn officer was shot and killed after a robbery at the jewelry department at Kohl's on Washington Street.

The Parole Board's decision to release the guy charged with murdering a Woburn cop

adamg — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:57:07 +0000

MuckRock posts a copy of the 2008 decision to release Dominic Cinelli, at the time serving three life sentences for a variety of violent robberies in Boston and in Middlesex County.

The Globe reported today the Parole Board never notified the Middlesex County District Attorney's office of the hearing; three years earlier, the DA's office had strongly urged the board to keep Cinelli locked up, which it did at that time.

Woburn officer shot and killed in gunfire exchange with robbery suspect

adamg — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:57:17 +0000

UPDATE: The officer has died; second suspect in custody.

According to Engine Company 3, a man who robbed the jewelry counter at Kohl's on Washington Street tonight exchanged fire with Woburn Police. An officer was hit, the suspect was also shot. Woburn Patch reports the suspect is in custody. State Police are now searching the area around the intersection of routes 93 and 128 for additional possible suspects.

Y workers get a little training after nursing mother told to knock it off because she was breaking Y policy against food

adamg — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:44:01 +0000

Channel 4 reports on an incident at the North Suburban Y in Woburn involving a mother ordered to stop feeding her infant. In response, the Y will train hundreds of workers on the state law that says mothers have the right to nurse their babies wherever they're lawfully allowed to be - such as inside a YMCA.

Company claims it will deliver flying cars at the end of 2011

adamg — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:29:03 +0000

Flying car and some boring old thing up in the air

The Register reports Woburn's Terafugia has cleared another hurdle in its march toward fulfilling the future we were promised decades ago: The FAA has given it a waiver to make its flying cars heavier than normal for "light sport" aircraft, which don't have as onerous requirements for a license as bigger planes. The company claims it will be selling the things by the third quarter of next year.

Now about our jetpacks ...

Via BostInnovation.com.

Bank robber runs on Dunkin'

adamg — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:31:28 +0000

Woburn Police are looking for a guy who apparently made a pit stop at a Dunkin' Donuts before robbing a nearby bank.

Police say the guy wrote out his demand note - for $100 bills - on a Dunkin' Donuts napkin before holding up the TD Bank branch at 280 Montvale Ave. around 10:50 a.m. on May 12. They say he may have been in the Dunkin' Donuts down Montvale before the robbery.

He's described as white, 5'6", mid-20s, with unshaved, sunken cheeks and wearing a white hoodie with a black vest over it and latex gloves. May have made his escape ~~on commuter rail~~ in a silver Malibu.

Police behaving thuggishly: DA to look at possible charges against three non-detail cops

adamg — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:41:33 +0000

The Globe reports Woburn officials have given the Middlesex County DA's office evidence with which to bring possible charges against three out-of-town cops for their behavior at a protest against non-police flaggers last week.

Cop drives wrong way to protest civilian flaggers

adamg — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:58:02 +0000

NECN reports on actual civilian flaggers flagging traffic across the state today - complete with footage of cop in Woburn showing his disregard for the motor-vehicle laws he's supposed to enforce when he's on the job:

Wow, these vitamins taste just like candy

adamg — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:19:20 +0000

So how do you react when you think your Flintstones chewable vitamins have been tampered with? Of course! You do the same exact thing. What could be more natural?

Weird: Boston owns 200 acres of parkland in Burlington and Woburn

adamg — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:08:42 +0000

Back in 1930, somebody gave Boston 200 acres of land in the two suburbs on the condition the city maintain it forever as "a public pleasure ground."

Only now Boston seems to want to sell off the land either as a subdivision or a golf course, according to Friends of the Cummings Park, which notes the city took $141,000 out of the park trust fund last year to pay a subdivision surveyor and $13,000 for legal fees this year - while spending absolutely nothing to maintain the land as a park.

Patrick O'Reilly: Mayor Menino, Please don't sell our park!

Wu-wu-wu-Woburn

adamg — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:51:43 +0000

Who knew there used to be downhill skiing in Woburn? Well, long-time Woburn-area residents, obviously. John Keyes photographs one of the last ski-lift foundations atop Horn Pond Mountain:

... When I was in second grade, I skied here -- going up on the rope tow (or T-bar -- I don't remember which), but the last run of the day we went up the chair lift. Unfortunately, the only trails down from the chairlift were too advanced for my ability, and I broke my leg. ...

Maybe someday people will be recalling the days they could ski down the Great Blue Hill.

Fatal commuter-rail crash in Woburn

adamg — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:33:25 +0000

Charlie on the MBTA has links on the accident. So does Bad Transit, but with added fuming.

It's no longer time to Stop & Shop, at least for him

adamg — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:04:19 +0000

Brian Kane reports he was too grossed out by the produce department at the Woburn Stop & Shop to ever go back:

... Containers of strawberries with visible mold. Rotten and rapidly decaying tomatoes and onions. Withered and spoiled green beans. This store is literally selling garbage and calling it "fresh produce". ...