Malden

Summer Food Program in Malden Receives Grant from Project Bread

brooke_mackinnon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:11:40 -0400

PROJECT BREAD SUPPORTS ‘FOOD AND FUN’ FOR MALDEN KIDS THIS SUMMER
$225,900 in statewide grants aim to help families cope with food and gas crisis

June 27, 2008 — EAST BOSTON — When school is out, kids who rely on free or reduced-price school meals need a safe place to go where they can get a healthy meal and have some summer fun. That’s why Project Bread is providing $8,000 in incentive grants to the Summer Food Service Program in Malden in an effort to help families cope with the skyrocketing cost of food and gas.

It's just not the same when you don't know when a train is approaching and arriving

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:55:38 -0400

Enuh Cork reports the automated announcer at Malden took yesterday morning off:

... [S]o I did not know the exact moment when the next train to Forest Hills was approaching or arriving. It's hard to understand how I got on the train without any warning.

Two die in firey Fellsway crash

adamg — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:55:22 -0400

Car slammed into house around 4:30 a.m.; third occupant of the car critically injured.

Newest innovation in crime control

adamg — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:36:13 -0400

Scarecrows.

Sing-Along for Justice

Socializing4Justice — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:25:09 -0500

Are you looking for like-minded progressives to hang out with in Boston? Want to cross-promote your events and campaigns? Are you new to the area and looking for groups to get involved in? Are you psyched about building strong cross-issue coalitions?

The wrathful Christmas lights of downtown Malden

adamg — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:19:12 -0500

Robert David Sullivan begins to wonder if the lights still on in downtown Malden are leftover Christmas decorations or something else:

... The lights are supposed to represent a giant angry eagle in flight, about to swoop down and gobble up pedestrians. ...

Putting the Social Back in Social Justice IV: The 1/30

Socializing4Justice — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:40:46 -0500

Are you looking for like-minded progressives to hang out with in Boston? Want to cross-promote your events and campaigns? Are you new to the area and looking for groups to get involved in? Are you psyched about building strong cross-issue coalitions?

March of the T refugees

adamg — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:18:04 -0500

Jen Stewart took the above photo at the Oak Grove Orange Line station this morning. She reports that it wasn't bad enough that the T bus driver told everybody to get out in the street, way away from the station. When the refugees then straggled up the road because the T didn't shovel the sidewalks, the bus driver honked at them for getting in his way.

Malden station needs some Comet

adamg — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:37:16 -0400

To get out the vomit that Enuh Cork couldn't help but notice this morning (along with a woman who sighed every single time the bus to the station stopped).

Hello mudda, hello fadda, here I am at Malden Centa

adamg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:53:32 -0400

EnuhCork reports a singing BostonNow hawker is beginning to get on his nerves:

... He sings out to people as they approach the station. I'll do my best to describe it here through extending words by repeating vowels:

"Goooood Morning Everybody...Get Your Boston Noooooooooooooooooow!"

The "now" part of the song is really nasally.

Today, I saw a guy take a paper from the singing hawker and responded with a little tuneful, "Thank Yooooooooooooooooooooooou!" ...