Watertown

What do you call 10 people bundled up in winter clothes on a boat in the Charles today?

adamg — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:26:08 -0400

Los Angelenos not used to 50-degree temperatures making a movie:

Chris Devers watched the moviemakers near between Watertown and Brighton today as they filmed some faux rowers for the movie about Facebook.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

To see the inside, he first had to drag a little orange man onto the roof

adamg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:40:20 -0400

Yuval Zukerman posts photos of the innards of one of the cars Google uses to make Street Views after he spotted it just sitting there outside the Friendly's across from the Arsenal Mall in Watertown today.

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Proposed Voter Choice (IRV) Ballot Question would bring more voices and choices into MA elections

amfriedman — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:01:08 -0400

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

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Courtesy, T style

adamg — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:33:45 -0400

KWAPT tweets:

Just overheard a commuter ask a friendly MBTA agent when the next 57 bus is - his response: "when it gets here.."

Students lose valuable shopping time at Watertown Target

adamg — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:53:40 -0400

Biggie_Robs tweets:

Watertown mall crazy and without power. We watched the transformer blow. Traffic signals out too.

He fights the law and so far the law's winning

adamg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:47:02 -0400

David Schrag does not have twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, but he does have a video to explain why he shouldn't have gotten a ticket in Watertown for making an illegal left turn. It didn't work, however - he was found responsible, which means he paid a $50 filing fee to appeal the $35 ticket.

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Watertown DPW making his life hell

adamg — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:59:39 -0400

Nobody wants to live next to a DPW dirt pile where stuff is loaded and unloaded at 11 p.m..

If you see Arthur Sulzberger walking around with a stack of newspapers ...

adamg — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:00:50 -0400

Wicked Local Watertown reports the owner of a Main Street convenience store arrived at work early one morning to find a $10 ransom note in place of the stacks of newspapers he expected to find.

Cambridge man charges state troopers beat him during Watertown traffic stop

adamg — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:48:05 -0400

The Herald reports.

Going to Old Country Buffet won't be on his bucket list

adamg — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:33:22 -0400

Martin Lieberman reports on his trip to the Watertown OCB:

... Yes, last night I went with one of my coworkers to the OCB after weeks and weeks of discussion. It started casually one day when we both mentioned that we had never been but had always sort of wanted to try it. After that, no amount of convincing could talk us out of it — and plenty of people tried. ...