Stoughton

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

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:32:45 +0000

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

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MA9 "Come to Jesus"

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:39:10 +0000

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

adamg — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:37:27 +0000

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

adamg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:39:03 +0000

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

adamg — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:20:35 +0000

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

adamg — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:02:32 +0000

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

Not banned in Boston - or Stoughton

adamg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:36:05 +0000

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.

Local Jewish center to become Christian association

Ron Newman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:24:27 +0000

The Striar Jewish Community Center in Stoughton is becoming a branch of the Old Colony YMCA.

Fringe Bridge

Dave — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:10:34 +0000

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

oddjob60 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:51:14 +0000

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:

Most unpatriotic town in America or a case of a cranky union?

adamg — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:13:26 +0000

Channel 4: Stoughton Firefighters Rally In 'Unpatriotic Town'.

Letter from Selectmen Chairman Richard Levine to IAFF, Local 1512.

Another local movie theatre closes

Ron Newman — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:18:31 +0000

Some time in the past few weeks, the Stoughton Cinema Pub quietly closed its doors. It was one of the Boston area's few remaining single-screen movie theatres, as well as one of the few remaining independent cinemas. Stoughton now joins the growing list of Boston-area suburbs that no longer have any movie theatres at all.

The only media coverage I've found is this Snyder's Stoughton column in the online Stoughton Journal. from October 4:

Danes out of Stoughton!

adamg — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:23:35 +0000

As Jay Fitzgerald puts it: You can't make this stuff up.

The Globe reports that the Stoughton No Place for Hate Committee is upset that the town administrator briefly flew a Danish flag outside Town Hall in support of Denmark. The group

plans to discuss the episode at its meeting tonight because of fears that residents might be hurt or insulted.

Hmm. As we know, the Israeli flag offends many Moslems. Perhaps the Stoughton No Place for Hate Committee should be asking all the temples in town to stop flying it. What? That's absurd? Oh, right.