Universal Hub - Canton

GLAD Summer Party

gladevents — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:54:53 +0000

Join Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders at our annual Summer Party held outside in the heart of Provincetown, MA on Saturday, July 27 from 4:00-7:00PM. Enjoy the view of the harbor, mingle with other GLAD supporters and learn more about our ground-breaking cases.

Tickets are $75 online | $85 on site | $30 student
Purchase at www.glad.org/events.

Don't miss our amazing auction and celebrity auctioneer Kate Clinton. You don't have to be present to win. Travel packages, restaurants, massages, and much more - something for everyone!

Children are welcome to attend (at no charge) and will enjoy a range of fun activities.

Delicious summer fare and refreshing cocktails provided.

More information, tickets and sponsorships are available at www.glad.org/events.

Roomier roaming along 128 south of the city this week

adamg — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:43:14 +0000

MassDOT reports it's opening the remaining fourth-lane sections of 128, er, 93/95/1/Hut!, between Randolph and Westwood this week. Schedule of segment openings. Important note:

With the opening of the new fourth travel lane, the authorized use of the breakdown lane for travel during weekday peak commuting periods will be discontinued to enhance driver safety and provide emergency vehicle access.

In other words, from now on, the breakdown lane is only for breaking down in.

Overpass smashing: Not just for Storrow Drive

adamg — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:08:43 +0000

WBZ reports State Police are investigating why a dump truck had its dumper up when it smashed into an overpass on Rte. 128 near University Drive around 5 a.m.

Police: Area woman just can't let Theo go

adamg — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:10:29 +0000

The Chicago Tribune reports a woman from Canton (yes, our Canton) was arrested in Chicago on charges of stalking Theo Epstein:

Recently, she found information about Epstein's new North Side home on the Internet and flew to Chicago on Monday, rented a red Mustang and plugged the address into the car's GPS navigation system, the prosecutor said.

On her Facebook page, Kathleen Kearney lists herself as a librarian at Brigham and Women's and lists the Boston Pilot - the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston - as one of her interests.

Innocent, etc.

Brookwood Community Farm annual seedling sale

Lanny Budd — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:42:31 +0000

Spring Seedling Sale May 19th and 20th 9am-3pm
Wake up the Farm Pancake Breakfast May 19th 9am-11am

Join us to celebrate the start of the 2012 season. Enjoy delicious pancakes with friends and stock up on seedlings for your home garden.

This just in: Horse stuck in mud at Ponkapoag

adamg — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:00:48 +0000

Channel 4 has dispatched its news chopper to keep us in the loop on this developing story.

No word yet if the horse is stuck with a frog on a log in that bog at Ponkapoag.

Scott Brown, ahead 2-1 in cash-on-hand and $13M in the bank, hilariously plays “underdog” card

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:27:17 +0000

Northeast Corridor vanishes into pit of dispair

adamg — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:33:45 +0000

Downed power lines somewhere in the Canton area mean no Amtrak service between Boston and New York and, of course, massive delays on the Providence/Stoughton Line that have left stranded commuters hoping for the buses the T is promising.

The mystery plaque at the top of the Great Blue Hill

adamg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:02:54 +0000

Who was Daniel M. Casey and why is there a plaque in his memory at the top of the Hill?

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon

Eddie Coyle — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:25:39 +0000

Cambridge, 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.