Braintree

Oh, no, where are exhausted South Shore Plaza visitors going to sleep now?

The Sheraton, the South Shore's only crenellated hotel, has closed, the Boston Business Journal reports.

Maybe he's trying to raise funds for a rhinoplasty

Quincy Police are looking for a guy who allegedly stole a laptop and digital camera from a local company. The bulletin notes:

Subject appears to have a really large nose.

Police: Neighbor murdered Braintree man, drove his body to Connecticut

The Quincy Patriot Ledger reports on the arrest of a man living in the same building as Jeffrey Phillips, who'd gone missing after talking to his mother on Friday.

Help find Jeffrey Phillips

A friend who is a local with us at the Dogwood Cafe in JP has gone missing in Braintree. I'm reaching out to the Universal Hub community in the hopes that someone reading might be able to help in some way.

Jeffrey Adam Phillips has been missing since Friday July 24, 2009. He was last heard from via a cell phone call with a friend and his mother around 7:30 PM and he was at his house. Jeff had plans to meet his mother Saturday morning but was never heard from.

Braintree goes boom

Stephen Walsh posts a couple of photos from Wollaston Alloys, where an explosion this morning blew out windows and sent six workers to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Bizarre standoff involving Braintree police and Boston cop

The Herald reports that when a Boston police captain bought six shopping carts full of toys to give to kids at Bromley-Heath, a Boston Police family-assistance unit wanted to make sure she was OK and not suffering emotional issues related to health problems. But when she didn't answer the door of her Braintree home, police called out a SWAT team and locked down the neighborhood.

The candy store who stole Halloween

Jason reports that yesterday, the South Shore Plaza held a trick-or-treat thing for little kids and that everybody seemed to be participating except for the Godiva chocolate store - which he discovered when he was in there and some kids came in and went "trick or treat!" and the clerk told them they weren't participating:

... At first, I found it funny and ironic, but then I realized how idiotic and stupid the folks from Godiva were. Instead of being the store that handed out the best trick-or-treating candy in the mall - a great PR move with nominal costs - they instead became the fancy candy store that refused to give away candy to kids on Halloween.

When they had the opportunity to give candy to both the kids AND their parents - the ones with the wallets and pocketbooks who will soon be searching for holidays gifts - they created an entirely memorable yet unfavorable experience. ...

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Wahhh!!!

The sign on the gate of the Fye store at the South Shore Plaza today said "Closed due to flood," which left some people disbelieving and disconsolate, apparently.

North Shore girl wonders why David Beckham ate at the South Shore Plaza

Suzie can't figure out why gazillionaire wounded soccer player Beckham chose to eat at the Cheesecake Factory at the Braintree mall:

... The South Shore Plaza? You're so freaking close to Boston; just be chauffeured in a bit more, explore our city, and at least go to the Cheesecake Factory in the Prudential, if your craving for it is really that big. I mean, there's also an Applebees in the Pru, so that's always another option. Joking.

Maybe Becks just likes the classiness of the South Shore ladies with their cute South Shore accents. ...