Allison Mahler reports from Watertown:
There is rabid raccoon on the outbound Charles river path near the Perkins School for the Blind. A jogger was attacked luckily no skin was broken.
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By adamg - 5/31/18 - 5:45 pm
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By adamg - 5/11/18 - 7:36 am
State Police report a woman walking on Greenough Boulevard near Grove Street in Watertown yesterday afternoon was grabbed from behind by a man who forcibly kissed and groped her. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/18 - 1:06 pm
Wasn't it great when they installed that new computer system and everything just sped up? Wait, what? Oh. Around 12:50 p.m. Tommy Von got in line to get a ticket to get in line to get to a counter at the Watertown RMV.
By adamg - 3/11/18 - 2:24 pm
FlyingToaster wonders if Eversource will come retrieve its pole before the Tuesday storm. The pole snapped and fell in the last nor'easter.
By adamg - 3/2/18 - 11:57 am
Dmitry snapped the carnage along Arsenal Street, reports more poles could topple.
By adamg - 10/9/17 - 11:52 am
A man determined to torment a former roommate in Watertown used skills gained as a computer-science major and a professional software writer - along with some basic human engineering - to repeatedly target the woman, her family, her friends and her colleagues with sexually explicit messages, bomb threats to institutions in Waltham and Chelmsford made in their names, for some 18 months until his arrest last week, according to an affidavit by an FBI agent on the case. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/17 - 9:02 am
Mass Lotto right now.......
*Chicopee pic.twitter.com/WVcwTI4S0X— rick (@PlunkettPrime) August 24, 2017
By adamg - 7/26/17 - 12:07 am
And you know the rejectiest of the rejects, in the back there, really wants to take care of some business. Kevin C reports:
This is not your father's Arsenal Mall.
By adamg - 6/30/17 - 8:51 am
Pia Owens reports on an attempt to find the best donuts "from every local shop we could find within a 10-mile radius of our home in Watertown, Massachusetts, plus Dunkin’ Donuts as a control group."
By adamg - 6/10/17 - 11:19 am
Watertown News reports (last item) that a member of the local constabulary will be having a chat with a guy who keeps calling the local historical society and leaving lengthy voice messages about how "the Historical Society misrepresents historical facts."
By adamg - 6/1/17 - 10:37 am
A Tufts Health Plan member-services clerk who handed over information on several thousand plan members so her brother and a pal of his could defraud Social Security and the IRS was sentenced yesterday to three months in federal prison, followed by nine months of home confinement, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 4/27/17 - 10:21 am
Watertown News reports on an April 14 incident at the Watertown Mall in which a father dissatisfied with the quality of a photo with his kids and the Easter bunny turned into a shoving match that ended when the bunny's chair broke and he plummeted to the ground.
By adamg - 4/19/17 - 9:40 am
Watertown News reports an Everett guy who led police on a car chase, jumped out of his car and into the Charles River last night, but proved unable to elude state troopers, local police, a helicopter and search dog. He's scheduled for arraignment this morning in Waltham District Court.
By adamg - 3/17/17 - 11:01 am
UPDATE: The firefighter, Joseph Toscano, has died.
Watertown firefighters are at 29 Merrifield Ave. for what is now a two-alarm fire. One firefighter has been seriously injured, John Duffill reports.
By adamg - 3/6/17 - 4:14 pm
Watertown News reports the city's newest Dunkin' Donuts will soon open at 640 Arsenal St., great news for people currently forced to travel all the way across the Charles River to get to the Dunkin' Donuts at Market and North Beacon in Brighton.
The next-gen Double-D's will feature an area where the franchisee promised people could " 'plug in' and do some work."
By adamg - 1/28/17 - 5:47 pm
In Marc Hurwitz's Friends of Boston Hidden Restaurants Facebook group, Bobby O'Neill asked this afternoon:
I feel like restaurants and shops owned by members of the Iraqi, Iranian, Sudanese, Yemeni, Libyan, Somali, and Syrian communities could use our support. Any recommendations?
Here's the list folks have come up with so far (additions welcome, of course): Read more.
By szapata617 - 12/29/16 - 1:03 pm
Prevailing sentiment in progressive haunts is “2016, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.” Between a stressful election season, acts of terror, and the crisis in Syria, many of us will be glad to see the calendar page turn on Sunday night. Still, to every cloud there is a silver lining, and at least when it comes to tackling climate change in the US, Massachusetts was a bright spot amidst the clouds of 2016.
By adamg - 12/1/16 - 11:21 am
Architect's rendering.
The owners of the Arsenal Mall, um, Project, today announced plans for a major revamp that will turn the old Army complex turned shopping mall into one of those new mixed-use residential/commercial/office complexes that are all the rage these days.
For those unfamiliar with the location of the new Arsenal Yards, its Web site pinpoints it as being "where Cambridge meets Boston." Read more.
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