Concord
Concord to consider hiring a cat officer
By adamg - 1/23/12 - 8:00 amThe Globe reports on cat regulations proposed by a resident tired of being "a victim in my own yard to terrorist cats that kill everything in sight."
Blessed and Bountiful Are the Cheesemakers
By dga - 11/30/11 - 11:21 pmAccording to Boston Restaurant Talk, the world's largest Crucolo Cheese will be paraded in Concord today.
And all these years I thought Cruculo was a type of honey.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon
By Eddie Coyle - 10/15/11 - 6:25 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.
West Concord 5 & 10 tired of being nickeled and dimed by junk faxers; files federal lawsuit
By adamg - 10/7/11 - 7:21 amOne of the country's last 5 & 10's yesterday filed a class action lawsuit against a Florida marketing firm it says keeps sending ads it doesn't want to its fax machine.
In its lawsuit, filed in US District Court, the owners of the West Concord 5 & 10 want RFB Distributors - and a series of other marketers still to be identified - to stop tying up its fax line.
Receiving Defendants' junk faxes caused the recipients to lose paper and toner consumed in the printing of Defendants' faxes. Moreover, Defendants' faxes used Plaintiff's fax machine. Defendants' faxes cost Plaintiff time, as Plaintiff and their employees wasted their time receiving, reviewing and routing Defendants' unauthorized faxes. That time otherwise would have been spent on Plaintiff's business activities. Defendants' faxes unlawfully interrupted Plaintiff's and the other class members' privacy interests in being left alone.
In addition to a ban on the faxes, the suit seeks $500 for each junk fax the store and its as yet unidentified fellow fax recipients have gotten.
Redistricting Olympics
By creightt - 7/20/11 - 12:42 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!
When his moral compass faltered, Henry David turned to his phone's GPS
By adamg - 7/10/11 - 8:28 am
Views of the Northeast went on a walk around Walden Pond the other day.
Copyright Views of the Northeast. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Another rout today
By adamg - 4/16/11 - 12:48 pmRedcoats, that is, not Red Sox:
Greg Cook has more photos from today's annual recreation of the Battle of Old North Bridge.
Your ballot in tomorrow's primary
By Anonymous - 9/13/10 - 2:28 pmTo preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:
then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.
Say what? Jellyfish invade Walden Pond
By adamg - 9/10/10 - 5:52 amWicked Local Concord reports that a) there are freshwater jellyfish and b) they've been found by the thousands in Walden Pond.
Concord bottle ban now just water under the (Old North) bridge
By adamg - 7/10/10 - 8:26 amThe state attorney general's office has dammed up Concord's effort to ban water in plastic bottles, saying the Town Meeting measure is all wet. So Thoreau Street is once again safe for the green trucks that are what it means to be from Maine.
