Natick
The Crowne Plaza Boston Natick is a deluxe hotel located only fifthteen miles West of historic downtown Boston. This hotel introduces each guest to a level of hospitality and sophistication at every turn. From it's award winning service staff to spectacular interior surroundings each traveler whether professional or leisure will enjoy a memorable stay at the Crowne Plaza. This hotel prides itself on being able to exceed each guests expectations. Read more
Driving directions:
MA. Turnpike one mile; I 128 five miles; I 495 ten miles from Boston Turnpike (I 90) West take exit 13. Follow Shoppers World signs, Left at light, Left at next light to Route 9 East. From I 90 Eastbound, Exit Route 12 to Route 9 Eastbound.
Nearby attractions:
Area Attractions: Sony Theater 1 6 0.15 Miles.<br> Shoppers World 0.25 Miles.<br> Natick Mall 0.25 Miles.<br> Framinham Cinema 14 0.50 Miles.<br> Danforth Museum 4 Miles.<br> Garden in the Woods 7 Miles.<br> Longfellow's Wayside Inn 8 Miles.<br> Wayland Country Club 8 Miles.<br> Historic Downtown Boston 15 Miles.<br>
The Boston/Natich Travelodge is located 18 Miles from the Boston Logan International Airport. An ideal destination for the value minded business or leisure traveler, the hotel is conveniently situated in a tranquil suburban location. Across the street from a shopping mall, the hotel is only a mile from the Cochituate State Park and 2 Miles from US Army Research Command. Other attractions convenient to the hotel include Boston, Walden Pond, Freedonm Trail and Downtown Boston. In addition to this excellent location, the hotel staff is courteous, professional and polite, creating just the right atmosphere to make you feel at home. Read more
Driving directions:
From Logan International Airport:
Take I 93 South through the tunnel.
After 2nd tunnel merge into Right lane.
Exit I 90 West at the end of tunnel.
Proceed to Exit 13, go right on Rte 30 East.
Turn right at the first traffic light (Speen).
Go thru two lights, bear right on Rte 9 West.
Take Rte 9 West to the first light, turn left.
The hotel is located on the right hand side.
Nearby attractions:
Area Attractions: Shopping Mall 0 Miles / 0 Kilometers <br> Walden Pond 12 Miles / 19 Kilometers <br> Freedonm Trail 15 Miles / 24 Kilometers <br> Downtown Boston 15 Miles / 24 Kilometers <br> Cochituate State Park 1 Mile / 2 Kilometers <br> Boston Subway System 8 Miles / 13 Kilometers <br> Sandy Burr Country Club 8 Miles / 13 Kilometers <br> US Army Research Command 2 Miles / 3 Kilometers
With a perimeter of professional landscaping and lush vegetation, the Hampton Inn Boston Natick in Natick, Mass., is located between Boston and Massachusetts' beautiful interior. Situated just three miles from Wellesley College and ten miles from historic Concord, the Hampton Inn caters to both tourists and traveling professionals. Logan International Airport is 17 miles from the hotel. Read more
Driving directions:
From Boston Logan International Airport:
Start out going northeast on Lower Terminal Rd toward Terminals C D E.
Stay straight to go onto Airport Exit.
Airport Exit becomes I 90 W/Mass Pike (Portions toll).
Take the RT 30 E exit, exit number 13, toward Natick/Wellesley.
Turn slight right onto Cochituate Rd/MA 30.
Turn right onto Speen Street, turn left onto Superior Drive.
Turn left onto Speen Street.
Nearby attractions:
Area Attractions: Babson College 8 Miles/12.8km Boston College 15 Miles/24km Brandeis University 6 Miles/9.6km Cambridge 17 Miles/27.2km Childrens Hospital 17 Miles/27.2km Cochituate State Park 1 Miles/1.6km Faneuil Hall Quincy Market 18 Miles/28.8km Fleet Center 18 Miles/28.8km Framington State College 8 Miles/12.8km Freedom Trail 17 Miles/27.2km Hynes Convention Center 17 Miles/27.2km Lexington Concord 10 Miles/16km Loring Hockey Arena 3 Miles/4.8km Maximus Club Complex 2 Miles/3.2km Millwood Golf Course 3 Miles/4.8km Natick Mall 0.5 Miles/0.8km Plymouth Plantation 50 Miles/80km Red Sox Fenway Park 17 Miles/27.2km Sturbridge Village 40 Miles/64km Wellesley College 8 Miles/12.8km Worcester Centrum 20 Miles/32km At T 1 Miles/1.6km Adesa 3 Miles/4.8km Automotive Profit Builders 1 Miles/1.6km Avery Dennison 2 Miles/3.2km Bj S Wholesale 1 Miles/1.6km Bose 7 Miles/11.2km Boston Scientific 2 Miles/3.2km Candela Laser 2 Miles/3.2km Federal Express 1 Miles/1.6km International Bread 0.5 Miles/0.8km Kraft General Foods 1 Miles/1.6km Liberty Mutual 1 Miles/1.6km Lumber Mutual 1 Miles/1.6km Mtra 1 Miles/1.6km Natick Labs 1 Miles/1.6km New England Telephone 1 Miles/1.6km Perspective Biosystems 1 Miles/1.6km Raytheon 3 Miles/4.8km State Farm Insurance 1 Miles/1.6km Tjx Companies 0.5 Miles/0.8km The Mathworks 0.1 Miles/0.16km Vmark Software 1 Miles/1.6km Whirlpool 1 Miles/1.6km
Location.
- The Courtyard Natick Framingham by Marriott is located in Natick, Mass.
- One block from Natick Collection
- Less than five miles Wellesley College
Hotel Features.
- 24 hour market
- Complimentary high speed wired and wireless Internet access
- Restaurant and bar
Guestrooms.
- Complimentary high speed Internet access
- Cable television
- Coffeemakers
Driving directions:
From Logan International Airport:
Approximate distance to the hotel is 22.5 miles.
Take SR 1A/East Boston Expressway South to I 93/SR 3 south.
Proceed to Exit 20/I 90/Mass Pike.
Take the Mass Pike West to Exit 13 and merge
onto SR 30/Cochituate Road.
Turn right onto Speen Street.
The hotel is located on the right.
Nearby attractions:
Area Attractions: Natick Mall 1 Mile / 2 Kilometers <br> Shoppers World 1 Mile / 2 Kilometers <br> Fenway Park 15 Miles / 24 Kilometers <br> The Mathworks 0.5 Miles / 0.8 Kilometers <br> Downtown Boston 20 Miles / 32 Kilometers
MetroWest Daily News reports.
Erica Farthing reports that for the next 30 days, all units not sold at that recent pin-in-balloon auction will be for sale at auction prices.
The Globe reports units at the Natick Mall condo complex will be going to auction soon - with starting prices as much as 70% off - as its bankrupt owner tries to raise cash.
Sharon Machlis finds it pretty ironic that the for-profit owners of MetroWest Medical Center are howling about Newton-Wellesley Hospital wanting to open an orthopedics center on their turf even as they expand their own physical-therapy services in Milford Regional Medical Center's coverage area:
... Certainly, Framingham Union Hospital is an important employer and service for downtown Framingham. But that still doesn't make it right to ask the government to create a non-compete protected service area for an investor-owned, for-profit corporation. ...
The Herald reports the company that built the fancy-shmancy condos at the mall wants the $12.6 million it says the now bankrupt mall owner still owes it.
General Growth Properties, which operates Faneuil Hall Marketplace and owns the Natick Mall Collection, filed for bankruptcy today.
He might come out from behind his counter and slash all your tires, as the MetroWest Daily News reports:
... "He slashed the tires on the left side of the Jeep, then he went around slashed the tires on the right side. He put the knife back in his pocket, walked away and continued to serve customers." ...
On Saturday, the kidlet and I went out for a drive. We wound up at the boat ramp at Cochituate State Park and were surprised to see a bunch of people out on the lake, including what looked like two families just having a grand old time out in the middle of the lake skating and ice fishing and just sitting around the grill (of course they had a grill).
The MetroWest Daily News reports a concerned resident told police there was "a large crocodile swimming in Fiske Pond along Rte. 135:"
... He said he saw an eight-foot crocodile swimming in Fiske Pond about 10 feet from shore heading toward downtown Natick. ...
Maybe the reptile had just come from the buffet over in Framingham.
Eric Weinstein reports that Vinny T's on Rte. 9 in Natick has closed, leaving people mad for sorta-Italian food no choice but to keep on driving until they get to the Olive Garden in Framingham.
Because this is a family Web site and all. The MetroWest Daily News reports:
A woman riding a MetroWest RTA bus made an unpleasant discovery last week when she sat down, only to find she her seat was covered in feces.
Yvonne Abraham nailed it in her column today about the emptiness that the Uptown Wing of the Natick Mall has become.
The kidlet and I roamed its sparsely populated walkways today and man, was it empty (don't worry, we weren't there to either smirk or check up on Abraham; we happened to be out that way anyway so we stopped in at Sears to get something truly boring and then decided to walk around). Clerks stared out at us bored as can be, when they weren't too busy chatting with each other or, as in the case above, abandoning all pretense that any customers would come in and so just surfing the Web. Even Neiman-Marcus was pretty much empty, which is probably just as well, since the kidlet spent most of our short stay there loudly complaining about how expensive everything was (I admit I snorted out loud when I saw a Juicy infant romper, although I couldn't decide which was worse: The sexualization of infants or the fact that the thing was going for $73).
However, I'm betting Abraham stayed on the second floor, because we did find one retail bright spot on the first floor: The Apple Store, which, while not packed wall to wall, seemed reasonably busy.
Meanwhile, the Ghetto Wing, i.e., the original mall, seemed to have a decent number of people walking around. We actually had to spend 30 seconds scouting out a table at the food court (I recommend the Indian food). I have no doubt people are buying less there, as well, but it still felt like a functioning place of commerce rather than a Potemkin Mall.
Nothing is as devastating to a parent than to bury their child. I hope this family can survive the tragedy.
...the mother of a 21-month-old girl who apparently drowned last month neglected the girl on the day she died.
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Children and Families tells The Boston Globe the agency has substantiated an allegation that Kerry Morton neglected her daughter, Finley Clare Morton, on Oct. 24, shortly before the girl was found unresponsive at the family's Wellesley home.
The child was taken to Newton-Wellesley Hospital where she later died.link
In May 2006, The Globe made an audio slideshow of the Morton family. Read more
Oh, come on, you didn't think I was going to break down and use that new name, did you? In any case: naked butt at the mall tomorrow, according to the MetroWest Daily News, which thoughtfully brackets its press release for the store in question with this sobering warning:
Under the state's open and gross lewdness law, the exposure of the buttocks can be a felony. Much hinges on whether the bottom-baring produces alarm, according to Natick Police Lt. Brian Grassey.
So I guess booty shaking is straight out, because you know how alarming that can be. Still, Lt. Grassey might wish to bone up on Commonwealth vs. Ora, in which the Supreme Judicial Court ruled earlier this year that you can dance naked in the middle of even Harvard Square at noon - as long as you provide adequate advance warning to the easily alarmed.
Spotted the other day on Rte. 9 at Oak Street; looks like Sealy hasn't repainted some of its trucks in awhile.
Things aren't going quite as planned at the uptown section of the Natick Mall (as opposed to the original ghetto wing, the one where you can still buy black-light art), the Globe reports, quoting analysts who blame New Englanders:
... While there is ample wealth in this region - the average household income is about $110,000, nearly double the state average - there is still a culture of buttoned-up Yankees who aren't accustomed to indulgent spending on luxury goods, according to Madison Riley, a retail analyst at Kurt Salmon Associates in Boston. ... "There has been a culture in the Boston area of that Yankee thriftiness, even when one had money," Riley said. "That's changed in the city of Boston but the mentality still resides in the suburbs, and that is impacting Natick." ...
Tim F-W proposes a replacement for Redmen:
... According to the Census Bureau, out of the 32,170 inhabitants of Natick, only 134 claim Native American ancestry. If Natick sports fans want to continue the tradition of having mascots named after tribes, why not reflect the actual composition of the town? I humbly suggest the Natick Palefaces. Surely the good citizens of Natick would recognize that name as one without racial overtones at all.
Natick sports teams may have new nickname.
Natick was founded as an Indian town, complete with its own Town Meeting - Speen Street gets its name from one of the leaders (and the first bible printed in British North America was John Eliot's translation into the Natick language). But even though the Natick Indians mostly sided with the British during King Philip's War (Captain Tom's Hill, now home to Jordan's Furniture, is named for an Indian who spied for the English), the revenge-mad colonial legislature exiled the town to treeless Deer Island, where most of the residents died over that winter.
Guy gets taken in by old TV-on-the-loading-dock scam - or, rather, the old 13-TVs-on-the-loading-dock scam (and he drove all the way up from Connecticut with $9,800).
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