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By adamg - 6/5/23 - 5:32 pm
Boston as seen from Swampscott under ominous clouds

Brenda looked towards Boston from Fisherman's Beach in Swampscott about 5:20 p.m.

By adamg - 1/27/21 - 11:39 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today dismissed a lawsuit by a man injured in a fall off his bicycle when another man's unsecured pit bull charged out of a yard and attacked the bike rider's dog, who had been trotting alongside him. Read more.

By adamg - 6/10/18 - 12:46 pm

WBZ reports, adds helpful tips on what to do if confronted by a coyote in the woods, including "be as big and loud as possible."

By adamg - 8/28/11 - 7:38 pm

Lost sailboat in Swampscott

Tim Mouradian photographed a lost sailboat in Swampscott today.

By adamg - 1/13/10 - 3:56 pm

By adamg - 12/12/08 - 4:40 pm

Wicked Local Swampscott reports a Jewish education and outreach group has suspended operations and fired all its workers because it invested all its money with Bernard Madoff, whose assets the feds seized yesterday after charging him with running a $50-billion Ponzi scheme (named after Boston's own Charles Ponzi).

By adamg - 3/15/08 - 1:07 pm

Amy O' shows what the tide brought in - at the Swampscott commuter-rail station.

By adamg - 6/20/07 - 9:40 am

No, I didn't realize there were any left, either. But apparently there was at least one still open, in Swampscott, only it's being shut down and turned into an IHOP:

Who doesn't love an IHOP?

Earlier:
They could have turned it into an Applebee's, but that just would have delayed the inevitable.

By adamg - 4/5/07 - 8:53 am

Help Bring Public Access TV Back to Swampscott has a series of North Shore videos, including one of State Rep. Douglas Petersen making his dumb Lynn comments (basically: That Swampscott should support better education in Lynn because Swampscott kids will become "captains of industry" who will need educated blue-collar workers from Lynn); the Lynn comments start at around 2:50.

Via Landed in Swampscott.

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