Milton

MBTA investigating possible gay-bashing attack on the Mattapan Line

adamg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:53:22 +0000

The Dorchester Reporter reports on an incident Monday night in which a man was assaulted by two men who also yelled "racial and homophobic slurs" at him near the Butler Street stop - and then tried to pull him off the trolley.

Sometimes it's bad news when the party bus pulls up to your house

adamg — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:29:09 +0000

The Herald reports a Boston teen is under arrest for a New Year's Eve brawl in Milton that ended with five stabbed after a party bus pulled up at one guy's house, passengers debarked and the guy refused to let them in.

At least he wasn't on a horse

adamg — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:17:52 +0000

The Globe reports some guy from Martha's Vineyard learned this morning you're not allowed to ride a bike on I-93, when State Police stopped him in Milton, gave him a ticket and told him to not do it again.

UPDATE: That wasn't just some guy. Boston Biker reports he was "local crazy man" Lucas Brunelle, who is known for his two-wheeled stunts.

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.

Missing link found for Neponset River trail

adamg — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:19:16 +0000

The Dorchester Reporter reports on the latest state plans for a trail along the Neponset River from Dorchester to Hyde Park by way of Milton and Mattapan.

Mike Ball, who lives at the Hyde Park end, considers the trail's progress.

Redistricting Olympics

creightt — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:42:03 +0000

Common 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!

Mystery continues to surround the kid who fell to earth in Milton

adamg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:29:42 +0000

The Charlotte Observer updates us on the story of Delvonte Tisdale, who fell out of the wheel well of a plane about to land at Logan (and who may have already been dead). Bottom line: We still don't know why - or how - he stowed away on a plane for Boston.

Via Jeremy Bernfeld.

Clearing the Mattapan line

adamg — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:27:17 +0000

Video from the MBTA of the jet-engine powered snowplow train. Lower your speaker volume: That thing is loud!

DA: Yes, the kid fell out of an airplane wheel well; how did he evade security?

adamg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:38:14 +0000

The Globe reports on a press conference by Norfolk County DA Bill Keating on the death of a 16-year-old from North Carolina, whose mangled body was found in a remote part of Milton.

Body turns up in Milton

adamg — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:36:40 +0000

Police are, of course, investigating the appearance of a young man's body with signs of "obvious trauma."

Your ballot in tomorrow's primary

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:28:17 +0000

To preview your primary ballot for tomorrow, click on the link from the Secretary of State's website:

http://www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php

then enter your address and select a political party. It will show you what choices you'll have on tomorrow's primary ballot.

Where does Rep.Stephen Lynch stand on the issues?

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:04:00 +0000

Lynch plays his cards close to the vest in what seems like a defensive style of politics. It certainly is not leadership-driven.

Take his process on the health care bill debate last summer. From March through August we heard Rep.Lynch say he didn't know how he'd vote on the bill. At the same time, he did not take a leadership role in shaping it. In August at Curry, Rep. Lynch held a town hall meeting and said he had read the bill but still didn't know how he was going to vote. Once again, his constituents could not get a bead on where he stood.

Perhaps even more stunningly at that town hall meeting, Rep. Lynch was given the chance to answer a question about death panels (after all he had read the bill) and refudiate (sic) ;-) the meme that right wing Republican liars and Fox News had made popular. Lynch equivocated! He would not take a stand!

Four-alarm fire damages Milton home

adamg — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:36:46 +0000

Damian Drella tweets the fire involves the house at 306 Adams St.

Milton residents fear influx of crime if planned Neponset River trail crosses into their town

adamg — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:20:25 +0000

The Dorchester Reporter goes on a tour of land along the river that might be used for a trail; notes issues, including fear by some Milton residents that a new footbridge would leave the town wide open to criminal elements.

Ed. note: As a Boston resident, I agree with the sentiment. The last thing we need is to make it easier for ammo-toting, punch-throwing, illegal trash dumpers to cross the river into Boston.

Canoeing down the Neponset

adamg — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:23:27 +0000

Mike Ball takes us on a trip.

Earlier:
Kayaking on the upper Neponset.