Randolph

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

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Lynch plays his cards close to the vest in what seems like a defensive style of politics. It certainly is not leadership-driven.

Take his process on the health care bill debate last summer. From March through August we heard Rep.Lynch say he didn't know how he'd vote on the bill. At the same time, he did not take a leadership role in shaping it. In August at Curry, Rep. Lynch held a town hall meeting and said he had read the bill but still didn't know how he was going to vote. Once again, his constituents could not get a bead on where he stood.

Perhaps even more stunningly at that town hall meeting, Rep. Lynch was given the chance to answer a question about death panels (after all he had read the bill) and refudiate (sic) ;-) the meme that right wing Republican liars and Fox News had made popular. Lynch equivocated! He would not take a stand!

Here's how police say one guy held up the CVS on North Main Street in Randolph on March 29: He called police to report a fight at the Picadilly Pub, then called back to report somebody had pulled out a gun. While police were racing there, he walked into the drug store and held the place up by threatening to stab workers with a dirty needle:

Officers arrived at Picadilly Pub to find no one there. The suspect handed Pharmacists a white plastic bag and told him to fill it with Oxy's and Percocets.The suspect was able to get 116 Oxycontin tablets.

The Globe has the details (note to Globe, as Matt King notices, you might want to do something about the URL on that story).