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By adamg - 6/24/13 - 9:08 pm

Woburn lightning

Sarah Nelson watched the storm over the Lowe's in Woburn around 9 p.m.

By adamg - 7/16/12 - 10:30 pm

Update, 7:40 a.m., Tuesday: MassDOT reports all lanes in both directions are now open.

State Police shut the highway in both directions around 10 p.m. when a tanker with about 8,000 gallons of gasoline rolled over and began leaking. Fire and hazmat crews from across the area are staging in the Woburn Mall parking lot to try to control the leak.

Photo from the scene.

By adamg - 4/22/12 - 1:38 pm

Bad crash in WoburnBad crash in Woburn

By adamg - 9/6/11 - 12:10 pm

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.

By adamg - 12/30/10 - 1:57 pm

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.

By adamg - 12/26/10 - 8:57 pm

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.

By adamg - 7/30/10 - 9:44 pm

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.

By adamg - 6/29/10 - 3:29 pm

Flying car and some boring old thing up in the airFlying car and some boring old thing up in the air

By adamg - 5/17/10 - 2:31 pm

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.

By adamg - 10/15/08 - 4:41 pm

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.

By adamg - 10/7/08 - 12:58 pm

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:

By adamg - 5/7/08 - 1:19 pm

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?

By adamg - 12/15/07 - 9:08 pm

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.

By adamg - 1/29/07 - 5:51 pm

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. ...

By adamg - 1/9/07 - 7:33 pm

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

By adamg - 6/22/06 - 3:04 pm

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". ...

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