Dedham

Bugged

Real Bugs

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

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Halon, sailors!

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.

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Maybe they've eaten all the turkeys

Flamingos

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

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I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream

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.

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Brookblogging

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

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Water marathon

Water race on the Charles

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

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Poetry in motion

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

No family store, no
Five and dime, not here
At Dedham Corporate Center
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And Dedham's worried about us?

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?

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Boston not relocating Roslindale housing-project tenants to Dedham

Seems there's a rumor going around Dedham that when Roslindale's Washington-Beech housing project is torn down for renovations, the tenants would be moved en masse to that fair town, and you know what that means.

Didn't seem logical to me (why would Boston residents be forced to move to another town, wouldn't they then stop being Boston residents?), but I asked Lydia Agro, communications director for the Boston Housing Authority, which is coordinating the $100-million rehab. Her basic answer: No. Her longer answer follows:

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