Imagine if they extended the Riverside Line to the suburbs of Elmira, NY.
Besides being located in the town of Horseheads, NY, which is worth a detour just to say you've been to Horseheads, NY, the village of Elmira Heights is also home to the US factory for Spanish train maker CAF, where the MBTA's next-gen, Type 10 Green Line trolleys will be built - 100 or so of them, 40 feet longer than the current trolleys and with multiple bendi-spots and all handicap accessible doors. Read more.
UMass Amherst is telling foreign students and faculty they probably want to be back on campus before the change of administration in Washington - and will provide housing for any undergraduate students who do return back from winter break early without a place to stay. Read more.
Ad for the show that still showed Thompson.
Boston Mega Praise, headquartered in an office park off VFW Parkway in West Roxbury, today sued gospel performer Phil Thompson - born in Boston and a former member of a group called Ashmont Hill - and his promoter over the more than $460,000 it says it spent to arrange his attendance at a performance at Worcester's DCU Center last year, which he pulled out of at the last minute. Read more.
A South Boston man was arrested this week on a federal wire-fraud conspiracy charge for his alleged role in a scam ring that took a 75-year-old North Adams man for $420,000 after he responded to a popup message that his computer was frozen. Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court today reinstated the bulk of a suit against the owner of Dunkin' Donuts franchises in Worcester because of the way one of its employees allegedly reacted to a Black man who ordered food by first delaying his order and then, when he and other employees asked about the delay, tossed the food - and a racial epithet - at him. Read more.
Photo via Transit PD.
Transit Police report what little traffic there was on West Street in Walpole around noon on Friday was disrupted when the driver of a garbage truck seemed to think his truck was 10'9" when it was really, oh, 10'11". No injuries, truck extricated, driver cited and, after an inspection, the bridge was, once again, declared the latest winner of a storrowing match.
A western-Massachusetts man today sued state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg in federal court because, he says, the state is violating his constitutional rights by not paying him any interest on the less than $100 he says he discovered he had sitting in the state Unclaimed Property fund. Read more.
A South Carolina lender focusing on the marijuana industry today asked a judge to let him take control of Middlesex Integrative Medicine, which has a dispensary in Norwood and a growing facility in Leominster, because he says it's no longer paying him back on millions in loans and its Leominster plant is no longer producing enough product to keep the company afloat. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a Berkshire town and a Land Court judge erred in rejecting a religious group's attempt to build an RV camping area because people who would park there either have to attend religious activities there or work for the group - making it exempt from zoning restrictions under state law. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Holyoke Solders' Home Superintendent Bennett Walsh and Soldiers' Home Medical Director David Clinton will have to stand trial for elder neglect for crowding infected patients together with vulnerable, non-infected patients in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, leading to an unusually high number of deaths. Read more.
Athol man trying to drag cop into the mob. Surveillance photo via FBI.
A federal judge in Washington, DC today sentenced Vincent J. Gillespie, 61, of Athol, to 68 months in prison for ramming cops with their own riot shields on Jan. 6, pulling one of the cops towards the surging mob as another protester beat him with a crutch and screaming at the police in his way that they were traitors. Read more.
Brush fire as seen from the turnpike around 4:45. Photo by Carol Beggy.
WCVB reports firefighters are battling a brush fire near the Worcester Line tracks where Southborough, Westborough and Hopkinton meet, which led to delays of an hour or more on the line.
Yesterday, a smaller brush fire near the Northeast Corridor tracks at Cummins Highway in Roslindale halted service for both Amtrak and the Providence and Franklin lines.
WHDH's Steve Cooper replenished the energy he used up while snowshoeing across the frozen, wind-swept tundra in the Fitchburg suburb of Ashby this evening.
Harvey Leonard, meanwhile, checked in from Florida: Read more.
Julius Sokol, part of a group that has spent the past few years buying Boston-area dives, and which hopes to re-open the old Jacob Wirth, is seeking approval to convert a western-Mass. strip club he co-owns into what could be the nation's first topless marijuana dispensary, the Hampshire Gazette reports.
ATF agents today arrested three men in connection with an alleged illegal gun sale by a Revere man who owns a Littleton gun shop: The dealer, the man he allegedly sold three guns to, who was one of three victims of a November shooting near Ross Playground in Hyde Park, and the legal gun owner who arranged the purchase, according to federal court documents unsealed today. Read more.
The Daily Free Press reports Boston University will sell all four Los Angeles apartment buildings it owned to its tenants, rather than selling one of them to the highest bidders, who might have kicked the tenants out. BU was willed the building by Frederick S. Pardee, a real estate investor and BU alumnus and donor.
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Westborough Police report the driver of an 18-wheeler thought he could fit under a CSX train bridge at Rte. 30 at Willow Street this morning, only to discover he couldn't.
Gillespie wearing a Berkshire Nautilus hoodie outside Capitol. Photo via FBI.
A jury in Washington, DC today convicted Vincent Gillespie of Athol of using a police shield to attack cops defending the Capitol and of trying to pull one cop into the mob, the US Attorney's office in Washington reports. Read more.
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