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By adamg - 3/2/24 - 3:48 pm

The Swellesley Report details how just another Friday night in Wellesley, Needham and Dover turned exciting when police blew up a live mortar some guy doing some magnet fishing found in the Charles River where the three towns meet - after they sent out alerts to residents to not get alarmed when they heard something exploding down by the river.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 10:11 am

Alexander Giannakakis, whose Nazi brother was the main suspect in a string of arson fires aimed at Jews in 2019, but who died before he could be arrested, has been returned from Sweden to face charges he tried to hide evidence of his brother's crimes and involvement in other local white-supremacist efforts, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/14/24 - 1:43 pm
Long ditch floods into marshland

The Charles, the Needham Line and the Long Ditch overflowing into Cutler Park. See it larger.

Yesterday afternoon, just before the deluge that gave us That Rainbow, the Long Ditch that connects two loops of the Charles at the Dedham/Needham line (dug by the busy-beaver colonial settlers who also gave us the Mother Brook), had overflowed its banks and was flooding the nearby marshes of Cutler Park. As it was designed to do. Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 10:10 pm

WBZ Newsradio reports on what turned out to be hoax calls to Congregation Sha’aray Shalom in Hingham - which prompted police to evacuate both the temple and nearby houses - and Temple Beth Shalom in Needham.

By adamg - 6/2/23 - 3:18 pm
Deer along the Charles River

Mary Ellen crossed the Charles and spotted this deer in Cutler Park on the Needham/Dedham line, across from Millennium Park.

By adamg - 3/5/23 - 7:39 pm
Maturing eagle

Mary Ellen spotted this eagle, maybe 3 to 3 1/2 years old, across the Charles from Millennium Park today. Bald eagles go fully "bald" when they're about 4 1/2 years, assuming they don't get poisoned by rodenticide first.

By adamg - 2/24/23 - 9:46 am

State Police report a Canton man walking on 128 south in Needham was killed by a hit-and-run driver early this morning. State Police did not say why the man was walking on the highway, but said the vehicle that killed him left behind debris that investigators are now analyzing for possible clues.

By adamg - 12/19/22 - 10:42 pm

A videographer who was fired from his job working on WCVB's "Chronicle" show in 2021 for refusing Covid-19 shots has sued the station and the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance for his firing in November, 2021 and denial of unemployment benefits, saying the station refused his legitimate request for a religious exemption and that the state is also discriminating against him by refusing to pay him unemployment. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/22 - 4:07 pm
Where the Charles River used to be

All that brown is normally river bottom. See it larger.

The level of the Charles River where Millennium Park in West Roxbury meets Cutler Park in Dedham and Needham is now so low that somebody who doesn't mind getting their calves wet - and maybe sinking into some mud - could easily wade across at its narrowest points. Read more.

By adamg - 5/29/22 - 4:38 pm
Timber rattlesnake or eastern milk snake?

A little hard to see, but there's a snake near the center of the photo, which Greg Hunt took today at Powell Island, a part of the marshy area along the Charles in Needham, near the Newton line, just across from Millennium Park in West Roxbury. And he reports it didn't like having its photo taken: Read more.

By adamg - 3/18/22 - 12:06 pm

Needham and other firefighters are at 103 Althea Rd. in Needham for what is now a three-alarm fire. Among the units responding: Engine 30 from West Roxbury.

By adamg - 3/17/22 - 9:42 am

Greg Reibman at the Charles River Regional Chamber reports that Gannett will stop printing the Newton Tab, Needham Times and Watertown Tab & Press in May. It shut its paper serving some Boston neighborhoods in December.

By adamg - 1/26/22 - 9:52 am
Flipped car on a 128 offramp in Needham

Photo by State Police.

State Police report a driver rolled his or her car at Exit 35C on 128 southbound in Needham this morning. The driver wasn't injured, the ramp had to be shut briefly so the car could be flipped over and towed away.

By adamg - 12/25/21 - 12:34 pm
Man falling on icy steps

JJFree shows off her husband's form on some ice-covered steps in Needham this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 8/13/21 - 12:05 pm

State Police report that a couple of tires flew off an 18-wheeler's trailer on the southbound side of 128 in Needham this morning, flying across the road and slamming into at least two cars on the northbound side. Amazingly, there were no injuries.

By adamg - 6/20/21 - 12:59 pm
A smiling frog in Cutler Park

Mary Ellen took today's most ribbitting photo this morning at Cutler Park on the Needham/Dedham line. See it larger.

By adamg - 6/3/21 - 11:22 pm

Blackstone, a New York investment firm, announced today it's buying International Data Group from the Chinese company that had acquired it in 2017. IDG runs a market consulting service and a variety of Web sites focused on IT buyers and sellers, both in the US and abroad.

By adamg - 5/20/21 - 9:35 am
Deer in Cutler Park

Mary Ellen spotted this deer in Cutler Park along the Charles at the Needham/Dedham line this morning.

By adamg - 5/7/21 - 12:42 pm
Bald eagle in Cutler Park

I don't know, I love the river views, but seems kinda small.

Mary Ellen traversed the Charles this morning and spotted a couple of bald eagles in Cutler Park along the Needham/Dedham line, across from West Roxbury - possibly checking out good nesting spots.

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