Stoughton

Lynch: If it walks like an elephant, and talks like an elephant...

This is the mailing that has Stephen Lynch in a tizzy.

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Local blogger on bicycle describes aftermath of getting hit by car that just drove away

Mike Ball reports he was bruised and likely in shock, since he doesn't recall from the time he was hit to the time he started talking to a Stoughton cop who seemed really angry somebody would do something like that and flee.

Stoughton has some train station

The station's being renovated, thanks to some federal stimulus money. Take a look at what a little cleaning reveals.

Court reaffirms public's right to watch jury selection in criminal cases

First, an admission: When I saw two Supreme Judicial Court decisions came out this morning related to former Stoughton police officer David Cohen, I just tossed the e-mail - I've reached my limit on Stoughton police corruption (hey, Stoughton, WTF?).

Fortunately, Robert Ambrogi has a much higher Stoughton tolerance than I - because, as he writes, one of the decisions reaffirms the right of the public to sit in on jury selection - under the First Amendment for the public and press and the Sixth Amendment for the defendant (and gives Cohen a new trial because the public was actually kicked out of the early stages of his prosecution).

Another sure sign of winter in Boston

Local bank robbers ditch the Red Sox hats and pull knit Red Sox caps over their ears.

Not banned in Boston - or Stoughton

Solomonia reports that Geert Wilders, the Dutch lawmaker banned from Britain for criticizing "the creeping tyranny of Islamization," will speak at a Stoughton temple on Feb. 25.

Fringe Bridge

Did anyone else catch the new show "Fringe" on Fox the other night?

It's set in the Boston area.

Last night they used some whiz-bang new technology to see the last thing that a murder victim saw before she died.

The technician recognized the image as a bridge, a particular bridge that was familar to her because she "used to live in Dighton" (pronounced 'ditton') "It's in Stoughton, in the warehouse district"...

Behold, the "Sargent Bridge In Stoughton" :

Maybe it's near Town Spa.

Train accident shuts down Providence line

Sitting on the 5:40 at South Station, they just announced that there was a collision at Canton Junction between a commuter rail train and a freight train. They're holding us at South Station until further notice.

Train 917 hit when a CSX boxcar rolled off sidetrack onto main line.

BNSFGP38 posts from the scene: