Cutler Park on the Dedham/Needham line lets you go deep into a marsh without getting stuck in mud - thanks to a boardwalk that meanders through the park, which consists mainly of a 700-acre marsh along the Charles River (and 128).

More about the park, including directions.

Lyss drives by a Dedham auto-body shop that specializes in old Bugs.

Channel 4 reports three people got doused with halon this afternoon at the Hess Station the station diagonally across from the Hess station on Washington Street when the fire-extinguishing system broke.

Dear Channel 4: Your story says the accident was at the Hess station (in West Roxbury), but your photos clearly show it was at the no-name-ish station next to the car wash on the other side of the street, which one could argue is still West Roxbury - the one that charges less because they only take cash.

A gang of tough flamingos guards a house on Pine Street in Dedham against marauding turkeys.

Ron's, with locations in Hyde Park and Dedham, is one of just four ice-cream places up for a vote as the best ice-cream place in America.

You know what you have to do. Click here, then on the "Vote for the Best Scoops In America" link.

Dear ABC: Hyde Park only feels like a Boston suburb. You might ask the mayor of Boston where he lives.

Tip o' the cone to Tammy.

Change of heart for previously hawkish congressman?

Mother Brook is a blog about the country's oldest canal, which connects the Charles and Neponset rivers via Dedham and Hyde Park.

Paul Keleher took in the Run of the Charles races today, including this 26-mile run.

Steve Sherlock is composing poems for each stop on the Franklin Line - in "sherku" (like haiku, but with two more syllables) - for example:

Some Dedhamites recently got all flustered by a rumor that alleged criminals from Roslindale's Washington-Beech housing project would be moved to their town (it was a false alarm). Now the Roslindale Transcript reports on a drug bust on Washington Street in West Roxbury: A Dedham man was arrested April 12 when Boston Police allegedly spotted him dealing drugs. They also arrested one of his alleged customers: A guy from Walpole. When are these suburban towns going to stop exporting their criminals to Boston?