A federal judge today set a Nov. 8 hearing date at which Alexander Giannakakis is expected to plead guilty to helping hide evidence that his brother set two Orthodox rabbis' homes on fire - in Arlington and Needham - also tried to burn down a "Jewish-affiliated" business in Chelsea and was involved in other white-supremacist activities in the area. Read more.
Marc Hurtwiz forwards this alert from Ring about an Arlington porch pirate.
Arlington Town Manager Jim Feeney reported yesterday that the town had $445,945.73 drained from a high-school construction account by the same sort of spoofing attack the left a Dorchester union nearly $6.4 million poorer. Read more.
Adam J.B. Lane forwards a photo from the Facebook Arlington List of a box truck about to be towed away from the bridge carrying the Minuteman bike trail over Grove Street in Arlington yesterday:
Grove Street in Arlington may not make the news quite as often as a certain other roadway in Boston, but it's no slouch itself when comes to ventilating unwary box trucks.
Bill Speros posts a copy of an e-mail message from the Chenery Upper Elementary School in Belmont about a disturbing odor in the school: Read more.
Alexander Giannakakis, whose Nazi brother was the main suspect in a string of arson fires aimed at Jews in 2019, but who died before he could be arrested, has been returned from Sweden to face charges he tried to hide evidence of his brother's crimes and involvement in other local white-supremacist efforts, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Carol Beggy got a good view of Arlington plows clearing Mass. Ave. this morning.
Arlington Police report schools have delayed openings this morning because a bear is roaming around town. The bear was last spotted in the area of Paul Revere Road and Park Street. Police have stationed officers near all schools to keep the ursus situation from getting worsus.
A bear was also reported ambling around Newton yesterday
A former student at Arlington Catholic High School yesterday sued two former priests in the Archdiocese of Boston - and a third, as yet unidentified priest - whom he blames in part for the times he says the school's then vice principal came into the room where he was serving detention and molested him. Read more.
Sean the Roving UHub photographer ran across a snow clearer in the pink in Arlington today.
Three people had to be fished out of Arlington's Spy Pond yesterday after falling through ice not thick enough to support them out of the water , Arlington Police Chief Julie Flaherty and Fire Chief Kevin Kelley say. Read more.
A man already wanted on various charges in three communities added Arlington to his list yesterday after he was pulled out of the Mystic River and charged with breaking into a local home and trying to carry off some of its contents in a stolen U-Haul truck, police say. Read more.
Ultrasonic Rock Orchestra, originally scheduled for two shows on New Year's Eve and Day at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, has postponed them to March 4 and 5.
Boston Opera Collaborative's Opera Bites, originally scheduled for three live performances at Longy School of Music on January 14-16, will instead be filmed and presented virtually later in January or February.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports that Twyrl in Arlington Center says several factors, in particular, "the breakdown of the supply chain," which led to spiraling costs, made renewing its lease just too risky to chance.
Arlington Police report two children were attacked by a coyote yesterday afternoon in Arlington: A two-year-old girl on Epping Street was bitten in the back and then briefly dragged by a coyote, then ten minutes later, another two-year old girl on Summer Hill Circle, about a half mile away, was scratched by a coyote. Read more.
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