Needham

Lynch: If it walks like an elephant, and talks like an elephant...

By Anonymous - 9/10/10 - 4:32 pm

This is the mailing that has Stephen Lynch in a tizzy.

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If the Dunkin' Donuts wasn't a drive-thru before, it is now

By adamg - 1/27/10 - 2:01 pm

Channel 4 reports the region's critical donut supply dipped by 0.0001% this morning when somebody in an SUV drove through the front of a Dunkin' Donuts on Chestnut Street in Needham

Tomato fight: Restaurants battle over name

By adamg - 8/27/09 - 9:33 am

Wicked Local Needham reports the owners of two restaurants named Pomodoro in the North End and Brookline are stewing over a Needham restaurant's attempt to paste the same name - which means "tomato" in Italian - on its storefront: The former's lawyer wants the latter to can it and threatens to dice them up, in a saucy letter to both the owners and Needham officials. The owners of the Needham restaurant refuse to be crushed, say there's no heirloom status for "Tomato" as a name.

Of course, all this leaves West Roxbury residents wondering if Pomodoro's Italian Kitchen can catch up.

Woman killed by commuter-rail train in Needham

By adamg - 7/6/09 - 2:02 pm

Early this afternoon near the Greendale Avenue bridge, Channel 5 reports.

Trash compactor a cash expander

By adamg - 5/20/09 - 10:25 am

Mass. High Tech reports that BigBelly Solar of Needham, which makes those solar-powered trash receptacles you can see around the more heavily traveled sections of Boston, has raised a bunch of equity capital.

Nice day for a canoe race

By adamg - 4/26/09 - 1:48 pm
Canoe in Needham

Paul Keleher took in the Run of the Charles canoe and kayak races in Needham today.

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So what happened on Highland Avenue in Needham this evening?

By adamg - 1/26/09 - 7:09 pm

Whatever it was, I feel sorry for everybody who was stuck in the traffic nightmare there. Not only was the right lane on 128 southbound jammed up with all these people not moving at all, people trying to get to Highland from the feeder road off the side of 128 also weren't going anywhere anytime soon.

Two cars, one cruiser smashed in 128 sliding

By adamg - 12/7/08 - 3:03 pm

Channel 7 reports on an accident this morning in Needham: Car slid into guardrail, trooper stopped to help, then, of course, another car slid into the cruiser.