Newton

Stolen mail from Wellesley crash lands in Brookline along with the two people who allegedly stole it

By adamg - 11/27/23 - 4:09 pm

Newton Police report that a couple of guys who'd just stolen a lot of money in Wellesley proved unable to deal with the windy roads of Newton and Brookline and crashed after escaping a traffic stop on Rte. 9 at Hammond Pond Parkway early this morning. Read more.

Boston College's new Brookline campus to offer associate's degrees; graduates will be given preference for BC entrance

By adamg - 11/20/23 - 9:58 am

The Heights reports on the state of BC's most recent acquisitions: The 23-acre former Mount Alvernia High School in Newton and the former Pine Manor College in Brookline. Read more.

MBTA announces major track-repair program for 2024, day after parts of the Green Line were shut at Kenmore due to track problems

By adamg - 11/9/23 - 10:04 am

MBTA General Manager Phillip Eng this morning released a proposed schedule for track repairs across most of the T subway system in 2024 that will mean more of the multi-day shutdowns riders have grown accustomed to over the past couple of years, but which he says will ultimately mean faster, smoother rides. Read more.

Results elsewhere: Newton voters reject taller buildings in city villages, Somerville retains mayor over Trump supporter, former Revere mayor will stay former

By adamg - 11/8/23 - 10:02 am

The Newton Beacon reports advocates of changing zoning to allow more growth in its village centers lost "in a bloodbath" in city-council elections. Read more.

Newton bicyclist killed in crash involving a UPS truck

By adamg - 8/29/23 - 8:49 am

Officials report a 57-year-old man on a bicycle died after he was hit by a UPS truck whose driver was coming the other way and making a left turn from Watertown Street onto Bridge Street in Nonantum around 5:20 p.m. on Monday. Read more .

College students may not be eligible to get domestic-abuse restraining orders against violent roommates, court rules

By adamg - 8/28/23 - 11:41 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today that freshmen students placed in a dorm room by their school aren't members of a "household" and so are ineligible to apply for abuse-prevention orders against their roommates. Read more.

Newton man beats wife to death in their home, police say

By adamg - 7/16/23 - 9:17 pm

Richard Hanson, 64, was charged with assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury after police found his wife, Nancy with "apparent blunt force injuries" at their 66 Brookline St. home last night, police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office report. Read more.

Man charged with Newton triple murder

By adamg - 6/26/23 - 9:22 pm

Press Conference at Newton Police Department - Man Charged in Connection with Triple Homicide

A Newton man was arrested today on charges of murder and assault and battery for the deaths of Gilda D’Amore, 73, her husband Bruno D’Amore, 74 and Mrs. D’Amore’s mother, Lucia Arpino, 97, in their home on Broadway. Read more.

Three murdered in Newton house

By adamg - 6/25/23 - 4:38 pm

Active Investigation Underway in Newton

Three elderly people were found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in a house on Broadway in the Lake neighborhood of Newton, Newton Police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office report. Read more.

Newton becomes bearable

By adamg - 6/11/23 - 11:44 am

There's a bear wandering around Cold Spring Park in Newton this morning.

Mayor Ruthanne Fuller advises: "Please do not approach the bear," no, not even with a pic-a-nic basket.

Lawn bear.

Vegetable rustlers steal hundreds of growing plants from Newton farm; they had a particular preference for scallions

By adamg - 6/10/23 - 10:38 am

Holes where plants used to be. Photo by Newton Community Farm.

The non-profit Newton Community Farm on Nahanton Street reports somebody spent some serious time Thursday night or Friday morning digging up and making off with hundreds of plants.

In e-mail to supporters, the farm's executive director, Sue Bottino, writes: Read more.

Judge reinstates alcohol delivery by company nabbed serving BC freshmen, at least for now

By adamg - 6/5/23 - 5:11 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court judge last week ordered the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission to give Gopuff, a Philadelphia-based delivery company, its license to deliver alcohol back while its lawsuit against the commission proceeds. Read more.

Delivery service that got nabbed running a booze train to BC says it's changed, sues to get its license back

By adamg - 5/24/23 - 12:45 pm

Gopuff, a Philadelphia chain that last week lost its state license to deliver alcohol after inspectors cited it for repeatedly delivering alcohol to BC freshmen, yesterday sued to get its license back, arguing it's completely changed its ID and training policies - that it's unfair the state didn't rescind its license until nearly 2 1/2 years after the violations and that the punishment was particularly unfair for a "first time" violation. Read more.

State shuts one Boston College liquor spigot by closing Newton delivery service it says had become popular among freshmen with fake IDs

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 5:01 pm

The state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission yesterday ordered the immediate shutdown of the GoPuff delivery outlet at 82-84 Needham St. in Newton after hearing evidence that over five days in the fall of 2021, its drivers delivered beer, vodka, wine, tequila, hard seltzer and even Four Loko to Boston College freshmen at a variety of locations on and near the BC campus. Read more.

'We need to do better,' BAA says after meeting with Black Marathon spectators who say they were bottled up by police in Newton

By adamg - 4/20/23 - 3:24 pm

WCVB reports.

BC warns students it doesn't want to get all Dean Wormer on them during the Marathon, but it will if there's a repeat of last year's mayhem

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 9:17 pm

While Boston University is urging students not to OD on borgs, Boston College is sending a sterner message to it students about their behavior during the Marathon - especially on the streets of Brighton and Newton.

In e-mail today, BC officials say: Read more.

Feds say they've busted a catalytic-converter theft ring that ferried thousands of sawed-off converters from Massachusetts to precious-metal extractors in other states

By adamg - 4/12/23 - 11:57 am

Catalytic converters in the back of the maroon Acura this morning

The back of Davila's MDX, filled with catalytic converters, taken just this morning, FBI says.

Federal officials today announced the arrests of several men they say spent recent years detaching catalytic converters from vehicles across Massachusetts for sale outside the state - led by a man who apparently never watched The Wire, because part of the evidence against him consists of extensive notes the feds say he kept on "the extensive criminal conspiracy that he orchestrated." Read more.

No prescriptions available at CVS as chain's national computer system goes kablooie

By adamg - 4/5/23 - 2:36 pm

Ryan Grannan-Doll reports:

Just tried to pickup meds at CVS in Newtonville. Pharmacist told me CVS computer network is down NATIONWIDE. No Rx filling or selling. No timeline for fix.

Another Catholic school closing: Mount Alvernia High School to shut doors in June

By adamg - 3/9/23 - 9:12 am

Mount Alvernia High School in Newton, which opened in 1935, yesterday announced its closure at the end of the current school year. Read more.

Police say Newton domestic-violence suspect punched out two cops, leaving one unconscious

By adamg - 3/5/23 - 4:56 pm

Newton Police report two officers responding to a 911 call about domestic violence Saturday night were themselves attacked by a man who tried but failed to grab one of their guns. Read more.

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