Weston
If a guy offers to sell you a gold Rolex or a cheap iPad, it might be stolen
By adamg - 11/8/10 - 4:05 pm
Weston Police report they are looking for a guy who broke into two lockers at a local country club and stole a $25,000 gold Rolex watch - and several credit cards, which he promptly used in Dorchester, South Boston and downtown Boston.
Police say this is not his first foray into country-club thievery and that he likes to use stolen credit cards to buy iPads.
You might want to detour around Weston today
By adamg - 6/20/10 - 9:49 amAt least until they get their pest problem under control:
Erin reports coming across this sign this morning on Wellesley Street in Weston, near the high-school athletic fields; adds: "I almost drove off the road laughing."
State says FastLane now faster at Weston
By adamg - 1/21/10 - 1:05 pmNo, not because they've raised the speed limit, but because they've added two more FastLanes to the sprawling plaza:
"Drivers should be aware that effective immediately during the morning commute as many as five Fast Lanes may be open," MassDOT says in a press release. "MassDOT Highway Division crews have modified two cash toll lanes to allow them to be quickly switched between manual and electronic Fast Lane tolls. This new change allows for a better use of lane space at certain hours. As a result, two additional automated toll lanes will be available, bringing the total to as many as five Fast Lanes during peak commuter hours when transponder use is higher and less on holiday weekends and at other times when the number of cash customers are higher."
Mess on 128 as private school near highway burns to the ground
By adamg - 12/23/09 - 8:51 amFour-alarmer at the Gifford School in Weston, the Globe reports.
Live view of the eastbound traffic at the Weston tolls
By adamg - 11/29/09 - 4:07 pmIf you're looking at this Sunday afternoon/evening, you're probably not stuck at it.
And this is why you have to slow down in the FastLane
By adamg - 8/27/09 - 7:14 amChannel 4 reports a guy speeding westbound on the turnpike early this morning lost control of his car, which sailed through the air into an empty toll booth at the Weston plaza and then burst into flames.
With photo of the newly impaled car.
Police on the lookout for Irish-looking guy
By adamg - 1/2/09 - 10:36 pm
Weston Police say he's one of two people apparently caught by surprise when they tried breaking into a Summer Street home off Rte. 20 around 3:45 a.m. on Dec. 29. Must be Northern Irish, because in addition to describing him as "Irish looking," police report he was wearing an orange T-shirt.
Why does Weston hate America?
By adamg - 11/17/08 - 1:23 pmWeston tries to keep a Dunkin' Donuts out of town. And since America runs on Dunkin', ergo ...
Another reason to dislike Mel Gibson
By adamg - 10/23/08 - 12:22 pmWhat could possibly go wrong when a film crew sets up shop at the Weston toll plaza during morning rush hour - especially when turnpike crews are already there doing some lane reconfiguring? Try a westbound traffic jam from Weston to Newton Corner.
Turnpike mouthpiece Mac Daniel at least had the decency to apologize for this, ah, clustertruck:
... In hindsight, we should not have allowed the filming to take place during the morning rush hour. In addition, work reconfiguring the lanes at the Weston interchange compounded the problem and should have been stopped when the backups began. Again, apologies all around. It won't happen again.
Court refuses to palm off tough decision; issues blistering ruling in disjointed property case
By adamg - 4/7/08 - 7:48 pmTerry Klein points us to a Mass. Appeals Court decision that gave a thumb's down to an attempt to make "by hand" mean the same as "in hand."
At issue: A $760,000 purchase-and-sale agreement for some property in Weston, specifically, a clause in the agreement that required delivery of documents "in hand."
Turns out the plaintiff dropped off a notice to postpone closing at the defendant's office when nobody was around, but made a point to leave it where he thought somebody would see it, and thought that this was good enough.
The court refused to knuckle under the plaintiff's logic, ruling that this was merely "by hand" delivery, and that just wasn't good enough, because "in hand" means it has to be put in an actual person's hands:
The plaintiff, in essence, asks this court to revise the explicit language of the notice provision from "in hand" to "by hand." We decline.
And then the court nailed the plaintiff for attorney's fees and court costs for the defendant.
