Only in Massachusetts: The Globe reports Citizens Bank has opened a branch inside a Dunkin' Donuts in Bellingham.

Ed Coppinger reports:

It seems 3 days a week for the last month or so there has been a candidate for Mayor or Boston City Council shaking hands at one of the Parkway’s hot-spots. Now I can add Candidate for U.S. Senate to that list.

Coppinger posts a photo of Steve Pagliuca looking admiringly at young ward Matt O'Malley, who used to be a regular at Roche Bros. during his runs for city council.

The Globe (and BBC and Advertising Age, and many more) report the resignation (news release here) of Dunkin's president and chief brand officer, William Kussell. The Globe's short article isn't enough to tell the hole story, but it sounds as if CEO Nigel Travis, who was brought in about a year ago, decided there were several grounds for Kussell's departure:

Scott Kirsner wonders about that and whether Dunk's franchisees should at least put out recycling bins to handle all the extra material.

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has the details on a case involving a toddler who allegedly got permanent chin and neck scars from a too hot hash brown at a Quincy Dunkin' Donuts.

The paper quoted one lawyer not involved in the case who said the parents could have difficulty with the jury, because who feeds their kid Dunkin' Donuts hash browns for breakfast in the drive-thru lane?

On WBUR's Public Radio Kitchen, Susan McGrory notes the full-frontal assault launched in another Dunkin' Donuts hotbed - Manhattan - by Canadian donut powerhouse Tim Hortons.

Could it happen here? The Canadians are a lot closer than you might think. Take a look at the map below, which shows Tim Hortons outlets in the Providence area. There are even a few just over the border. Unlike Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons seems a more worthy matchup for our Dunk's - they have a similar menu. If they did try to move into DD's ancestral homeland, though, who would get hurt more? Dunkin' Donuts or Honey Dew Donuts?

Jon Chesto reports a Dunkin' Donuts on Morrissey Boulevard still actually makes its own donuts.

Fred would be so proud.

Maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder since it's not like they have a lot of Dunkin' Donuts in the Heart of Dixie: "We don't have it where I can just go everyday and get a coffee and a donut."

Boston Police issued an alert that a car crashed into the Dunkin' Donuts in Andrew Square this morning. Channel 5 reports four people were injured in the crash.

The Fall River Herald-News reports a woman is going into Dunkin' Donuts dressed as a Dunk's employee and stealing real employees' purses.

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