Norwood
Epic parking fail
By adamg - 1/29/12 - 12:12 pm
Sweetz spotted this example of Massachusetts parking grace at the Windsor Garden Apartments in Norwood.
Feds: Three wise guys nabbed before they can kidnap owner of Norwood check-cashing place
By adamg - 1/26/12 - 7:52 amThe US Attorney's office reports the arrest of three men old enough to know better on charges they were planning to kidnap the owner of Forest Hills Checking on Central Street in Norwood and force him to hand over all the money they figured his store would have.
Their plot, the FBI says, was foiled by a fourth would-be conspirator who dropped a dime.
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.
And when he was done, the machete-wielding robber told his victim to have a good day
By adamg - 8/2/11 - 10:14 amNorwood Police report they are looking for a guy who held up a Sunoco station on Rte. 1 south with a machete on July 26. He's described as white, about 25, 5'11" with dark hair and "brown, puppy-dog eyes." He's believed to have gotten away in an older Corolla with no hubcaps, driven by somebody else.
According to the video, the robber asked for all the clerk's money, as well as five cartons of Newports and "a ton" of scratch tickets. Then, just before he left, he said, "Alright, have a good day. Thank you."
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!
Donut desperadoes hunted in Norwood; one may have fled Dunkin' holdup in a Range Rover
By adamg - 4/30/11 - 10:44 am
Norwood Police report they are continuing to look for two guys who walked into a Dunkin' Donuts on Rte. 1 north around 3:40 p.m. last Saturday and held the place up:
Suspect #1 described as 6'2", thin build, late 30's early 40's. Pale complexion with thin pointed nose and small lips. Suspect #2 described as 5'11"-6', 230lbs, husky build. Suspect #2 had a mask on and was carrying a black case and put stolen money in same. Suspect #1 acted like he had a weapon in jacket. He threatened patrons. They demanded cash from both registers and tried to demand cash from safe.
Police say the two seemed to come from the neighboring Petco lot and may have gotten away in two vehicles: A tan pickup, possibly a 1990s GMC and a newer black Range Rover.
Maybe he wanted to show what happened that night
By adamg - 3/11/11 - 1:08 pmWicked Local Norwood reports Norwood selectmen dismissed an allegation a local bar sold a bunch of beers to an already over-beerinated man when the guy in question showed up at the hearing apparently intoxicated.
Building collapses off Rte. 1 in Norwood
By adamg - 2/7/11 - 1:33 pmAlertNewEngland reports a 1200x200 commercial building at 1400 Boston Providence Highway, behind the IHOP, collapsed this afternoon. Firefighters were inside at the time, but all got out safely.
Resigning from Senate never an option. Mike Rush,“That never even crossed my mind”
By Anonymous - 1/20/11 - 1:34 pmTimothy Robertson at the Dedham Patch takes the stenography:
"A downside of Rush’s deployment: no vote will be cast for the district he represents..."
Downside indeed. Is it too much to ask the reporter to pose the obvious question: Might citizens reasonably expect to have a voting Senator represent their interests? After all, a revolution was fought for that right on the premise, no taxation without representation.
A leader would put the interest of his constituents ahead of his own.
