Weymouth

Immigration officer arrested on second OUI offense

adamg — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:14:09 -0400

The Patriot-Ledger reports the guy allegedly got up to 110 mph in an attempt to escape Weymouth police early Sunday morning.

Would you trust strangers with candy?

adamg — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:30:46 -0400

Mass High Tech announces the return of 1998: A Weymouth company has just spent $3 million to buy the domain name candy.com, at which it plans to build a wicked big online candy store, or, in press-release-speak, "the best online customer service candy shopping experience in the world." The new site is still 23 days away from launch, but, of course, there's a pre-launch Twitter feed.

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Is the South Shore big enough for two Hollywood Easts?

adamg — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:15:39 -0500

Sam Baltrusis reports that while a Plymouth group is getting all the attention for building a massive movie studio, a development team out of Los Angeles hopes to beat Plymouth to the punch with its own giant studio, at the old Weymouth Naval Air Station:

... [T]he front-lot-set streets of SouthField Studios will be sourced from historic Boston City locales. In fact, the set is a dead ringer for any brownstone-lined street in the South End or Back Bay neighborhoods. It's Beacon Hill ... without the hill. ...

Fore River Bridge

adamg — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:51:14 -0500

Interesting Fore River Bridge photo.

Unfair comparison

adamg — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:30:41 -0400

Shanna is saddened by the devastating fire at Sacred Heart Church in Weymouth, but can't believe the church's cantor compared the fire to 9/11:

... No matter how precious a place of worship is, it is still nothing more than a building. One firefighter was seriously injured, but as far as I know, no one was killed.

I have no idea how you compare this to nineteen maniacs taking over four airplanes full of innocent people, and then proceeding to crash those planes into large buildings full of other innocent people (though failing as to one plane). How do you compare seeing the aftermath of a church fire to watching people jumping hand-in-hand with their coworkers from the hundreth floor of a burning office building. ...

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