Jejes Coffee House, 259 Washington St. in Wellesley, is scheduled to open Wednesday, with certification to serve kosher coffee and pastries.

It's owned by Jejes Coffee Roasters of Sharon. It's opening comes a few days before the planned opening of a new kosher tavern in Somerville.

Police in Newton and Wellesley report a significant increase in people having their checks stolen by mailbox fishers, even from the newer models designed to prevent such crimes, and are telling residents it's time to drop their mail off at their local post office, rather than using a box on the street, especially if they contain checks. Read more.

The Swellesley Report reports a woman called police to report her car had been replaced by an exact duplicate (scroll down the page a bit).

The Steven Wright joke.

MBTA Commuter Rail reported delays of up to 30 minutes on the Worcester Line this morning due to "a rail defect in the Wellesley area."

There's a similar problem on the Newburyport Line. Are the rails not quite cold resistant?

A federal judge in Boston today dismissed a lawsuit by parents of several special-needs students in greater Boston alleging their children were unfairly singled out by the rapid shift from in-person to online learning as Covid-19 tore through the state in 2020 and 2021. Read more.

The Swellesley Report sounds another alarm: Three houses in the leafy suburb were burgled early this morning though unlocked doors or windows. The miscreants tried to get into a fourth house, but were cunningly foiled because the residents there made sure to lock their doors before turning in. Police issued the now obligatory warning to residents to lock their doors.

The Swellesley Report chronicles a pair of arrests at a normally genteel restaurant in the normally genteel town: A couple who find the sight of masks disturbing while they eat asked people at another table to take their off. Those people refused, words were exchanged, other tables got involved and before police arrived the woman was hurling silverware and the man was threatening to beat up other patrons. Police then gave the couple a tour of their booking desk.

A Wellesley Hills couple is suing their now former architect for what they say are more than $15.5 million in overruns and years of delays on extensions and upgrades to their current home, a mess they say left them fuming and their tony street with a rather unseemly large hole with incorrectly placed concrete supports and structural walls. Read more.

In case you were wondering if it had been awhile since we'd gotten any thrown-food news out of Wellesley, relax: The Swellesley Report reports a couple was sitting outside a local restaurant enjoying a recent August night when somebody "threw a milkshake in their direction which struck the ground and splattered on them."