West of 495

While MBTA police are busy looking cool in black uniforms at subway stops ...

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:28:29 -0400

Commuter-rail riders are coming home to find their cars smashed in:

... On the train last week, I was standing behind a couple of Grafton commuters who were talking about the break-ins. One woman was saying that she had filed a police report with the town of Grafton and that the police responded to her that there have been over 30 (!) break-ins in the last 4-6 weeks. ...

Why you should care about some dispute between Sterling and Clinton over water

adamg — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:00:20 -0400

Well, beyond the fact that Sarah Schweitzer wrote about it for the Globe, or that it involves a giant multinational wanting to suck out some precious groundily fluids to make bottled water in Framingham (at the same industrial-park plant where it bottles Poland Spring, because Framingham is what it means to be from Maine).

No, you should care because, as Lance informs us, the water would come from a reservoir known as Wekepeke, and that's pronounced "Weekee-Peekee" and that's just too glorious a name not to say over and over again.

Don't want to know what he used to stir his coffee

adamg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:39:48 -0400

A 25-year-old state employee was arrested Sunday night after police said he drove his car to a Dunkin' Donuts drive-through window while naked.

'Sup, Worcester?

adamg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:15:03 -0400

Worcester Magazine is blogging the blogs, with updates every few days on what Worcester bloggers are bloggging about (blog, blog, blog!).

Breadism

Jay Levitt — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:05:01 -0400

"SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Police are investigating the stabbing of a 51-year-old Greenfield man Friday following what investigators say was a dispute over a loaf of white bread."

You notice how they always mention when the bread is white?

Police: Greenfield man killed during fight over loaf of bread

Ladybug onslaught

adamg — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:46:20 -0400

Lance, one of our western correspondents, reports at least 60 ladybugs on and around his window this morning.

Play "Fuzzwords" at masscrosswords.com

Masscrosswords — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:28:59 -0500

Play "Fuzzwords" at http://masscrosswords.com

A cardinal rule

adamg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:59:51 -0500

Jody, who took the above photo today, reports that that rule is: If you see a bird like this on a day like today, by the time you run upstairs to get your camera with the zoom lens, it will have flown away. She also has a request for her readers for when summer rolls along.

When Cambridgistas find themselves stuck in, gasp, Worcester

adamg — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:48:25 -0500

The Upstairs Girl tears a new one for some Cambridge nob who finds herself stranded in a Worcester hotel room with no books to read and only a large-screen TV to keep her company:

... Worcester! Horrors! It's so backward it's practically the deep South! It's too bad there aren't nine colleges within the city itself - a city so devoid of intellectual life would never have any bookstores. In fact, my education - received as it was in the even vaster, emptier wasteland surrounding that city - was conducted entirely through the use of cave paintings, until I miraculously woke up one day at college and fully literate, in the author's fair city of Cambridge. ...

The Upstairs Girl also ponders what sort of Cambridge intellectual would leave for a trip to Worcester in the middle of a frickin' snowstorm without taking a book along.

Worcester paper plagiarizes Herald; when caught, says 'yeah, so?'

adamg — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:00:46 -0500

Boston Daily has the scoop on the Worcester Telegram ripping off a piece of the Herald's Romney/Tavares coverage; editor says, eh, he goofed, no harm, no foul, no correction.

A couple years back, a Telegram reporter lost his job for borrowing a bit more liberally from Sports Illustrated.