Watertown
Water main breaks in Watertown
By adamg - 3/13/12 - 6:40 amOn Greenough Boulevard, which is closed between Arsenal and Beacon, Channel 4 tweets.
Scott Brown, ahead 2-1 in cash-on-hand and $13M in the bank, hilariously plays “underdog” card
By Anonymous - 2/20/12 - 7:27 pm
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This burglary report is a real shaggy-dog story
By adamg - 2/17/12 - 11:14 am
Suspect has a hangdog look.
Watertown Police are looking for a man and woman - and dog - for at least 13 daytime burglaries of apartments in local buildings:
Suspects are a male & female team with a dog, dog has been involved in at least three breaks. They are possibly using Buick type station wagon vehicle.
Best place for brunch around Waltham, Watertown, Allston/Brighton
By adamg - 1/15/12 - 2:14 pmJackie Ellis asks.
Armenian Library sues to keep paintings by Jack Kevorkian
By adamg - 10/22/11 - 5:54 pmThe Armenian Library and Museum in Watertown is suing Jack Kevorkian's lawyer in an effort to keep paintings it says the late suicide doctor donated to the library more than a decade ago - but which the lawyer and the Kevorkian estate plan to auction off next week.
In a suit originally filed in Middlesex Superior Court, but transferred to US District Court in Boston, the library says Kevorkian's sister announced at the opening of a gallery of the paintings at the library in 1999 that Kevorkian, then in a Michigan prison, said the artwork was a gift to the library.
Kevorkian's estate has, in turn, sued the library, demanding the paintings be produced in time for an auction scheduled for next week that will also include the machine Kevorkian used in his assisted deaths.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon
By Eddie Coyle - 10/15/11 - 7:25 amCambridge, Mass. — Tickets are on sale now for George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Stickball Productions’ world premiere stage adaptation of the quintessential Boston crime novel. The production runs Dec. 8–Jan. 15 at Oberon in Harvard Square, for tickets, visit www.thefriendsofeddiecoyle.com
It is the winter of ‘69 in Boston and Eddie Coyle is a bottom of the barrel hood attempting to stay alive and out of jail among his “friends” – cops, bartenders, radical hippies, bank robbers, hit men and informants. Weeks away from a prison sentence for trucking stolen booze, Eddie’s making a few bucks supplying the guns for a rash of brazen bank heists, while looking to tip someone in for a kind word to the judge.
George V. Higgins’ classic novel has been called the “best crime novel ever written” by Elmore Leonard, and literary scholars have compared his unforgiving and realistic depiction of Boston’s underworld with the works of Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Balzac. Through dialogue quintessentially Bostonian, and the most poignant homage to Bobby Orr and the ’69-’70 Boston Bruins in literature, The Friends of Eddie Coyle has set the bar for Boston crime stories for nearly 40 years.
The Hiroshima photos in the trash
By adamg - 8/25/11 - 3:50 pmGreg Cook recounts the tale of 700 post-Bomb photos of Hiroshima that the owner of the Deluxe Towne Diner in Watertown found in somebody's trash while walking his dog in 2000.
Redistricting Olympics
By creightt - 7/20/11 - 1:42 pmCommon Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting the winning maps to the MA Legislative Redistricting Committee for consideration.
The purpose of the redistricting Olympics is threefold: to educate the public about the steps in the redistricting process, to initiate public participation in the political arena, and to pressure the legislature to draw the districts so that the citizens are appropriately represented.
Help show the legislature that redistricting is about our interests, not theirs. By participating in our redistricting Olympics and learning how to draw your own fair districts, you can acquire the tools you need to expose attempts by public officials to politicize the state’s new legislative maps.
For more information check out and/or email us at .
Participate in our democracy!
Fired Watertown cop charged with ratting out fellow cops to drug dealers
By adamg - 5/24/11 - 5:04 pmAllegedly turned rogue after he was fired, Wicked Local Watertown reports.
Watertown to Belmont: Suck it and leave our trackless trolleys alone
By adamg - 5/18/11 - 12:42 pmThe poles holding up the overhead wires for the 71 and 73 electric buses may be too declassé for leafy Belmont, but gritty Watertown wants nothing to do with diesel buses, Wicked Local Watertown reports:
Town Councilor Vincent Piccirilli read several letters from Watertown and Belmont residents requesting that they vote to maintain trolley service to save on noise and air pollution. Residents attending the meeting agreed and many said that the trolley system adds character to the town.
