Medford
Saturday at the Medford Kelly's.
This missed connection ad on Craigslist reads like a modern day love poem. Bearded men of Boston...pull your faces out of the PBR pitcher, it looks like someone has their eye on you...
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mis/1567745744.html
Northbound at Roosevelt Circle, Ben Jackson tweets. Based on the comments below, sounds like everybody got out OK.
The T reports 20-25 minute delays on the Orange Line this morning due to a dead train near Wellington. At least it's not the brand-new signaling system this time.
For what it's worth, I just had a trouble-free ride from Forest Hills to State. South Orange Line represents!
Somebody at Tufts thought so: Behind one building, the university has a set of steps that were supposedly designed to let a woman outrun a male attacker.
The kids at Teen TV Somerville frame the planned Green Line expansion in a novel way - and feature the stylings of the immortal Wig Zamore and US Rep. Mike Capuano. Even better: Judges pick the best song about the Green Line (the first from a kid who thinks the whole thing is a big mistake: "It's not too late ... to give this train away" - sing it!):
Latest Green Line Extension documents from the state.
State to study three locations for trolley repair facility.
Tip o' the beret to Erin Sunderland.
Among the electric customers to lose power due to the exploding manholes of doom today is Tufts University. Students are being asked not to light candles and to walk in groups if they have to go outside at night if the lights still aren't back on. The school says lights could be out for another eight to ten hours.
Might be good to avoid towns with names beginning with M today:
Channel 4 reports flames shot 20 to 30 feet in the air when manholes exploded on Main Street in Medford around 10:30 a.m. and that several thousand people are now without power.
William Fleurant tweets traffic is, as you might expect, a mess there (where 38, 16 and I-93 come together).
MBTA Police report power went out at the Malden Orange Line station, trapping one person in an elevator.
Tufts Daily reports some university employees were forced to go home early over the weekend when the school shut down computers across the campus to try to wrest back control from hackers who managed to take over dozens of computers.
Interestingly, most of the computers belonged to Tufts professors and staffers, not students.
By moving students with flu-like symptoms into quarantine rooms and wearing masks. Oh, wait, you thought I was going to write about, oh, never mind.
Earlier:
BU sets up quarantine rooms for students with the flu.
Looks like the New England Baptist Church in Medford Square is at it again.
In 2005, the church told Katrina victims they deserved it.
Tony tweets:
Just saw an MBTA employee dump the metro paper recycling bin into a trash can at Oak Grove. Why do they pretend to recycle? Ugh.
The T does a better job of recycling old Metros at the inbound platform on the Orange Line at Haymarket: They use bundles of Metros to sop up all the water that keeps draining into the station - and to prop up an orange cone atop the slippery spot the water creates.
Inside Medford reports state offficials are now saying only most of the project will be finished by the 2014 deadline, due to "funding requirements and the economic crisis." Left for an unspecified "shortly thereafter" is the Rte. 16 stop.
Music instructors are fighting a proposed law that would require them to sterilize wind instruments - a potentially expensive move that could benefit a campaign contributor to the bill's sponsor.
On Somerville Voices, Melissa McWhinney posts a copy of a call to action by Richard Saunders, the music director for Somerville Public Schools, and adds:
The problem is that there's no evidence that the current system is any danger to students, and the guy who invented a system to "sterilize" instruments stands to make a killing, while driving music departments out of business because they will have to spend tons of money they don't have, to fix a problem that isn't a problem, while the proceeds go into the inventor’s pocket!
Earlier this month, the Globe reported the legislation had been filed by state Rep. Paul Donato, D-Medford, one of whose constituents is Lorenzo Lepore, a dentist who spent 10 years developing an instrument sterilization system that costs between $50 and $320 per treatment per instrument, to kill the germs he says can last for long periods in the instruments.
State campaign finance records (search here) show that Lepore has donated $1,550 to Donato since 2006.
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Wicked Local Medford reports on an incident at a Kelly's drive-thru:
Three men flirting with a drive-through employee got more than they bargained for last Friday night when the girl's boyfriend and six other men apparently took offense. ...
Brian Christiansen posted this photo at 8 p.m. of the scene on Orchard Street in Medford;
New gas main installed today. Leaking tonight.
Used under this Creative Commons license.
Money exploded into the air in Medford today when two alleged bank robbers crashed their getaway car.
A man exploded in Salem yesterday, accusing his neighbor of being a flesh eater and then holding off police with a gun for several hours.
My son's school just got a new wind turbine, and it is a thing of beauty. As we headed down I-93 this morning, it was spinning away, cranking out electrons to reduce my tax burden. The ribbon cutting was set for this morning at 10:30. More details from the Medford Clean Energy Committee.
Being 13, my guy was rather bored of the whole thing. He did, however, say that everytime he used a certain staircase last week, somebody would notice that more of it had been put in place. He relayed this with fashionable ennui, despite his thinly veiled enthusiasm about seeing the blades go on from his perch in the science lab.
In thousands of households in Revere, Everett, Malden, Medford and Melrose, alarm clocks lost their minds and started blinking "12:00," Channel 4 reports.
The Medford Green Line Neighborhood Alliance rounds up state explanations for why there are now "schedule concerns" related to getting the Green Line extended into Somerville and Medford, including the need to design and buy new Green Line cars (guess Bredas just won't do).
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