Somerville

Missing: Stuffed pink leopard

adamg — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:56 +0000

A local parent is frantically searching for his daughter's Lisa Leopard, stolen out of the family mini-van last night at the Rite-Aid near Davis Square:

She has had her since she was 3 years old. This is the go-to comfort toy. No, this is her best friend. This is the thing she brought to EVERY SINGLE "show and tell" day at school for a year.

This is her Hobbes. In fact, when I introduced her to Calvin and Hobbes last year, it was as if she had written the comics in a previous life.

So as you can imagine, I have spent the last several hours in the rain inspecting every square inch within a five block radius of the crime scene. I have been trying to get into the heads of whatever stoner kids found an unlocked door, grabbed the first thing they saw, and looked inside, and realized that there was nothing worth stealing. I have gone into every trash can and made friends with the T station workers. I even chatted up a few of the downtrodden folks at the bottle redemption center.

Grinches arrested

adamg — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:56:43 +0000

Associated Press reports the arrests of people for stealing packages and bows, but mostly just packages, in Somerville and Quincy

Eat At Jumbos to Donate 10% of Sales to Somerville Local First Tomorrow Only!

Courtney — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:44:17 +0000

Good afternoon-

Tomorrow, December 20th, Eat at Jumbos will donate 10% of all sales to Somerville Local First! This is a great opportunity for everyone to support a local business and a great organization at the same time!

Eat at Jumbos is located at 688 Broadway in Ball Square and offers a variety of foods including vegan options. Check out their website at WWW.EatAtJumbos.Com for online/phone ordering information and their menu.

Thank you to anyone who participates in this or who has donated to Somerville Local First in the past…you rock!

~Courtney
WWW.Ward5Online.Com
Somerville Local First Board Member

Love Local? Love Somerville? Donate to Somerville Local First!

Courtney — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:12:41 +0000

Somerville Local First, an amazing and highly respected organization in Somerville, has been bridging the gap between residents and local businesses since May 2008 with such campaigns as Shift Your Shopping and Move Your Money and with events such as Harvest Fest and Somerfun. Love attending SLF events? Keep them and the organization alive by donating to Somerville Local First this year!

Wicked Breaking Bad

adamg — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:39:36 +0000

The case of the professor and her alleged meth-making son near Somerville City Hall makes the rounds.

It only looks like a truck whose driver got horribly lost in Davis Square

adamg — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:21:04 +0000

In fact, this photo is part of a set by the MBTA showing re-painting at the station while the Red Line is shut down for track work.

KFC/Taco Bell closing everywhere, or just near me?

Ron Newman — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:14:02 +0000

Over the last couple months, the two KFC/Taco Bell locations in Cambridge and Somerville have closed -- first on Hampshire Street near Inman Square, and now on Broadway in East Somerville. (A third KFC/Taco Bell in North Cambridge closed in 2007.)

I haven't eaten at one of these in years, but are they closing down all over greater Boston, or just around here? I would ask KFC's online Store Locator, except that it still lists the closed Cambridge and Somerville locations as being open.

If you're loco for locos

adamg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:24:29 +0000

Locomotive

Matthew in Boston took the photo while on a T-sponsored tour of the locomotive repair shop in Somerville today. More photos.

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

"The Way of the Warrior-Bunny" comes to Somerville Theatre Microcinema Tuesday

andtruth — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:16:37 +0000

The premiere of Unreliable Narrator's first web series The Way of the Warrior-Bunny is taking place Tuesday, November 29. Performances are at 7 and 9 PM at the microcinema at the Somerville Theatre (55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA). Admission is $6.00; for reservations email .

K'Tharr, celebrated intergalactic Warrior-Bunny and protector of the innocent, has been robbed of one of his greatest powers. As he takes refuge with his oldest human friends Krista and Ed, a great and socially awkward enemy threatens the Earth with destruction. Can K'Tharr get his groove back, or will he be stuck at his $11-an-hour temp job?

Lead actor Neal Leaheey is a founding member of the award-winning Providence improv troupe Bit Players. He originated the role of K’Tharr in Unreliable Narrator’s 2009 comedy Paranormal, and is pleased to bring it to the Somerville Theatre screen. The series features Laura DeCesare (Paranormal), Andres Rey Solorzano (Theatre on Fire’s Mojo), Jenny Gutbezahl (Flat Earth’s As Bees In Honey Drown), Tony Moschetto (Oberon’s Comedy Is King), Gigi K. Cochrane (Zeitgeist Stage’s ENRON), and Crystal Lisbon (Company One’s Learn To Be Latina). More information can be found at http://www.unreliable-narrator.com.

Trotting turkey

adamg — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:59:21 +0000

Nathanael Hevelone discovers the one day of the year when it's acceptable to run through Davis Square dressed like a turkey.

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

Trio targeting Indian-owned convenience stores with complex robbery scheme, police say

adamg — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:55:37 +0000

Somerville Police report they are looking for a "well organized" that is managing to steal money from local convenience stores owned by people of Indian origin through a complicated, multi-part ruse:

Court: Off-duty cop can take away the keys of a guy who's just rammed his car in another town

adamg — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:00:23 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a Somerville police officer returning home to Woburn did nothing wrong when he grabbed the keys of a guy who plowed into him at a red light on Montvale Avenue.

Joseph Limone had his OUI conviction - his seventh - overturned by the Massachusetts Appeals Court, which said the officer had no right to detain Limone to await a Woburn cop because he was off duty, in another town and the principle of citizen arrest didn't apply because average joes can't detain somebody for a misdemeanor, such as first-time OUI, which is all the cop knew he was dealing with.

But the state's highest court ruled today that what Officer Robert Kelleher did wasn't an arrest at all, but something anybody might do when rammed by a guy who appeared to be drunk - to try to keep the guy from leaving until the police could arrive:

Missing Somerville teen might be at Occupy Boston - or somewhere in New Hampshire

adamg — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:32:28 +0000

UPDATE: He returned home last night.

Somerville Police are looking for Elliot Layton, a 16-year-old last seen early Tuesday, riding a black bike and with a green sleeping bag and violin.

Family friends say he could be on the way to New Hampshire, but Transit Police put out a flyer saying he might be at Occupy Boston.

In either case, if you see him, contact Somerville Police at 617-625-1212.

The cask of a VFW post

adamg — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:41:26 +0000

Photo by Maria Varmazis.

Efforts by the Dilboy VFW Post in Davis Square to stay open until it can build a new post hit a cinderblock wall Saturday, when workers hired by the adjacent Winter Hill Bank built a wall to permanently seal off the post's basement game room on orders of inspectors brought in by the state. Post members promptly indicated what they thought of the wall.

Club members say the inspectors came from the Boston Fire Department, but BFD spokesman Steve MacDonald said that whoever the inspectors were, they weren't from Boston: "We did not and do not go into other cities or towns to inspect properties. No Boston inspector was in Somerville at the VFW post."

Post officials said that on Veterans Day, in addition to being told the game room had to be shut permanently, they were given until Monday afternoon to submit plans for bringing their ancient building up to fire code or the state would shut it down. That could mean they would lose their liquor license and possibly jeopardize the proposed move into a new post building on another corner of their property.

The post had proposed dealing with code violations through construction of the new building - which a developer would build in exchange for permission to build 31 new condos on another part of the post's land - but the project has been stalled in an increasingly acrimonious battle between neighbors and the post.

The new Assembly Square T stop

adamg — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:01:14 +0000

The Somerveille Transportation Equity Partnership has posted some renderings of the proposed new Orange Line stop at Assembly Square.