Dedham

BJ's to roll out rival to Stop & Shop's Mahty - with eyes that blink

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 3:47 pm

BJ's announced today it's going to install hundreds of giant wheeled stalks to roam aisles making sure all its inventory is where it's supposed to be. Read more.

Is Dick's pivoting to Elvis impersonator supplies?

By adamg - 2/10/23 - 9:43 am

Colorful outfits at the Dick's in Dedham

Jessica Burko couldn't avert her eyes from one clothing display at the Dick's in Dedham yesterday.

Sushi place tries for success in spot near Dedham Mall that has bedeviled American eateries

By adamg - 12/13/22 - 9:19 pm

Hayashi Sushi has opened at 125 Washington St. just before the Incinerator Road entrance to the Dedham Mall on the southbound side. Read more.

It's neighbor vs. neighbor as in Dedham Christmas-tree controversy

By adamg - 12/10/22 - 12:01 pm

A decision not to put a Christmas tree in a Dedham branch library has turned into the sort of brouhaha you don't normally expect to see in a quaint Massachusetts town, or Dedham, for that matter.

Dog paddling in the Charles

By adamg - 11/27/22 - 10:32 pm

Man and dog in canoe pass goose in the Charles River in Dedham

Mary Ellen spent some golden-hour time this morning along the Charles in Dedham, where she spotted a man paddling in a canoe with his dog while passing a goose.

At last: Give your dog that rich pumpkiny taste he craves - and deserves

By adamg - 9/8/22 - 9:46 am

Spotted yesterday at the Dedham Stop & Shop. And look: It's human grade, so you can enjoy a hearty gnaw yourself.

You never know what you'll see at the Witness Post

By adamg - 8/7/22 - 5:54 pm

The Army Corps of Engineers maintains a "witness post" at the dam that diverts some of the Charles River into the Mother Brook in Dedham. It's probably related to the little metal tube next to the post, from which the corps probably can easily draw out some water for tests, but we'd prefer to think it's a place to see things we don't usually see.

Droughty: You can now wade across the Charles River and not even get your knees wet, at least along one stretch

By adamg - 7/29/22 - 4:07 pm

All that brown is normally river bottom. See it larger.

The level of the Charles River where Millennium Park in West Roxbury meets Cutler Park in Dedham and Needham is now so low that somebody who doesn't mind getting their calves wet - and maybe sinking into some mud - could easily wade across at its narrowest points. Read more.

If you like eating sort-of Chinese food in a place with giant horse statues outside, better hurry down to Legacy Place

By adamg - 7/19/22 - 5:28 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the P.F. Chang's at Legacy Place is going to be replaced by a Capital Grille, which offers neither Chinese food nor giant horse statues.

The secret hiding place of the US Open buses revealed

By adamg - 6/12/22 - 1:31 pm

Brendan reports the Dedham Mall has finally found a use for its usually half-empty parking lot off Incinerator Road: Fill them with the buses and shuttle vans that will carry the Lacoste set to and from the US Open at, not just any country club, but THE Country Club.

Ed. note: On a food run to the Stop & Shop there just now, I noticed a bunch of the vans were from Morgan State, which is in Maryland.

Turkey nearly knocks the stuffing out of Dedham woman

By adamg - 6/1/22 - 3:21 pm

WBZ reports, doesn't say if the attack was near the line with Hyde Park, where residents have learned to deal with bloodthirsty terror turkeys, one of which went after a WBZ reporter.

Dedham loses a breakfast place

By adamg - 5/30/22 - 5:27 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Small Batch Cafe, which made its own bacon, on Washington Street southbound just before the Dedham Mall, has closed for good. It opened just a few months before the pandemic hit.

Dedham Square bar worker attacked by young teens

By adamg - 5/10/22 - 9:30 pm

WBZ reports a worker at the Horse Thieves Tavern went outside around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday to ask some girls to stop banging on the window - and promptly got jumped by the group.

Legacy Place in Dedham to get all friendly and toasty

By adamg - 3/24/22 - 5:44 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Friendly Toast hopes to open an outlet at Legacy Place this summer.

A little sugar frosting to start the day

By adamg - 3/10/22 - 12:47 pm

Snow covered reeds along the Charles River

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On a walk in Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning, Mary Ellen looked across the Charles at reeds covered in snow that would soon melt.