Natick
Mall life not all it's cracked up to be, some owners say in suit against Natick Mall condo developers
By adamg - 11/1/11 - 6:44 pmSome of the first people to buy pricey condos at the Natick Mall are suing to get their money back.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon
By Eddie Coyle - 10/15/11 - 6:25 amCambridge, 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.
Redistricting Olympics
By creightt - 7/20/11 - 12:42 pmCommon Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting the winning maps to the MA Legislative Redistricting Committee for consideration.
The purpose of the redistricting Olympics is threefold: to educate the public about the steps in the redistricting process, to initiate public participation in the political arena, and to pressure the legislature to draw the districts so that the citizens are appropriately represented.
Help show the legislature that redistricting is about our interests, not theirs. By participating in our redistricting Olympics and learning how to draw your own fair districts, you can acquire the tools you need to expose attempts by public officials to politicize the state’s new legislative maps.
For more information check out and/or email us at .
Participate in our democracy!
Did the winds from yesterday's storm carry a photo from the Springfield area to Natick?
By adamg - 6/2/11 - 3:53 pm
Kate Neville reports she found this photo and address labels in her Natick yard today. The labels list an address in Stafford Springs, CT, about 20 miles south of tornado-ravaged Monson, MA. But where is the photo from? Who is the little boy?
I keep wondering if this photo is from someone's home that was destroyed in the tornado...
Because of stories like this, NECN weatherman Matt Noyes has opened up his Facebook page to people who want to post photos of stuff they've found, in the hopes their owners might reclaim them:
I don't expect there will be a great many items, but if we can reunite even just a few folks with their treasured belongings, hopefully it will help ease their loss in a very small way.
And the hub of Massachusetts is: Natick!
By adamg - 5/10/11 - 10:18 pmTo be exact, 32 Windsor Ave., on the shores of scenic Dug Pond, according to the US Census Bureau's 2010 Census Centers of Population by State .
And yes, of course the Census Bureau figures out the center of gravity for each state's population.
Tip o' the enumerator's cap to Kurt Hemr for finding this.
Keglers lose another one: Fairway Bowling in Natick shutting down
By adamg - 5/4/11 - 11:25 amThe MetroWest Daily News reports.
Court: Woman guilty as charged for abusing co-worker's debit card
By adamg - 3/29/11 - 11:07 amThe Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the fraud conviction of a woman who used a co-worker's debit card to buy pizza and clothes and to renew her driver's license.
Laura Ryan, who used the co-worker's card while on work release from MCI Framingham, had argued that state law explicitly refers to fraud involving "credit" cards and that debit cards are just not the same.
The appeals court, however, discounted that argument and upheld Ryan's conviction as "a common and notorious thief:"
Grab and run at the Natick Mall
By lex.galloway - 1/26/11 - 9:21 pm
Natick Police report a grab-and-run robbery at the Natick Collection on Monday.
At around 7 p.m., police say, two men entered the Gucci store there and began to collect purses before quickly running out. Police say they got away with only nine purses, but they were worth a total of $9,500.
Recent months have seen a spate of similar robberies at high-end stores apparel and accessories stores in the Back Bay.
If somebody calls you and says they've got a great deal on TVs, but you have to drive to another state, think twice
By adamg - 12/24/10 - 12:19 pm
Natick Police report somebody from Connecticut was separated from $3,400 in a scam at the Natick Mall.
According to police, the victim got a phone call and was offered a great deal on four TVs - but only at the Natick Sears:
Person drove to Natick and met in parking lot with female shown in grey shirt claiming she was a Sears employee. She gave him a fake Sears bill of lading for four TV's in exchange for $3400 cash. She then walked into the store and told him to wait for the TV's to be delivered to his vehicle. TV's never came.
If you have to meet a Sears employee in the parking lot for a great deal on a TV, you're about to get scammed
By adamg - 11/5/10 - 9:54 am
Natick Police report this guy did his part to prove P.T. Barnum correct, in an incident on Sunday outside the Sears at the Natick Mall:
Suspect posed as store employee and met 'victim' at store parking lot per prior verbal agreement. Suspect was then given $1300 cash in exchange for store merchandise pick-up receipt to go in and pick up promised 'discounted televisions.' Receipt was fake and 'victim' was turned away with no television.
