The Boston Public Health Commission warns the pond on the Hyde Park/Dedham line off Sprague Street is now infested with a cyanobacteria algae bloom and it has shut the pond to public access - so don't jump in it, go fishing there or let your dog into the smaller of Boston's two great ponds. Read more.
Ocean State Job Lot is selling various insta-tents and canopies, all named for towns in Connecticut, but Looks Yellow, Tastes Red suggests they be more careful with where they put the bar-code stickers on their Killingly line.
Vero Navarro of Hyde Park managed to capture just one of the ants, between her home's back door and its screen door, this evening.
Jamaica Plain, Roslindale and Hyde Park Facebook groups tonight are full of accounts of people and vehicles getting stuck in a mating frenzy of zillions of tiny flying ants, in those neighborhoods and West Roxbury and Dedham, too (Update: Cambridge and Somerville, too). Read more.
Is it Halloween season already? As Gary C. found out, the Dedham Lowe's thinks so.
Gilbert's, the hard-to-spot liquor store at the rotary across Washington Street from the Dedham Bob's that closed pretty much as soon as the mega Total Wine was announced down the street, is getting replaced by a take-out place that specializes in grilled-cheese sandwiches with stuff on top of the cheese. Read more.
A consultant's recorder at the Readville yard used by CSX last year.
Frustrated residents from Readville, Dedham and Milton told the MBTA and state Rep. Rob Consalvo (D-Hyde Park) this evening they are fed up with the overnight vibrations, humming and train horns from Readville's two train yards that they say have especially bedeviled them since 2020. Read more.
Dedham Police report that around 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, they were called to the Bob's Discount Furniture at the Dedham Mall, where a woman with a fresh gunshot wound had been dropped off. Read more.
The Charles, the Needham Line and the Long Ditch overflowing into Cutler Park. See it larger.
Yesterday afternoon, just before the deluge that gave us That Rainbow, the Long Ditch that connects two loops of the Charles at the Dedham/Needham line (dug by the busy-beaver colonial settlers who also gave us the Mother Brook), had overflowed its banks and was flooding the nearby marshes of Cutler Park. As it was designed to do. Read more.
The Dedham Stop & Shop has plenty of milk, eggs and bread, but almost no bananas. Also, the checkout line stretches all the way to the end of the store and then bends back into the bread aisle.
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the TGI Friday's next to the Best Buy is no more, joining Chili's and Applebee's as "fast casual" chains that were ultimately unable to figure out the D-town.
No sale: Visitors to brothel Web site today were greeted by seizure statement.
Federal officials today announced the arrest of two Korean nationals and a Korean-American on charges they ran a series of brothels in newer high-end apartments both here and in northern Virginia, following an investigation that began in 2020 that involved stake-outs, phone surveillance, rooting through trash and interviews with customers. Read more.
Outages at 11:30 a.m., via Eversource outage map.
Update, 3:15 p.m. Eversource reports 139 homes and businesses still without power in Boston, but no outages in Dedham, Brookline and Newton.
Eversource is blaming "equipment damage" for widespread outages that started around 10:45 a.m. in an area that extends from Brookline and Newton streets in the north to most of West Roxbury and Dedham in the south. Parts of Roslindale as far east as Roslindale Square are also affected. Read more.
From the complaint.
A subsidiary of the Dedham's Norfolk & Dedham Group that has a program to offer gift cards to safe drivers called N&Drive, says the last thing it needs is to be associated with party buses, so it's suing N&D Night Out of Easton, which offers party buses and vans, to try to force that company to change its name. Read more.
Photo via TPD.
Transit Police have put out an APB for the driver of a Budget rental truck who managed to get rather intimate with Dedham's infamous East Street Bridge around 11:30 a.m. on Monday then, for some reason, decided not to wait around for police. If you know somebody driving around in a Budget truck with some fresh roof damage, contact detectives at 617-222-1050.
Linda Rodi couldn't help but notice the rainbow over Belmont from her back porch this afternoon.
Marc Hurwitz spotted a rainbow over Dedham Center: Read more.
Mary Ellen crossed the Charles and spotted this deer in Cutler Park on the Needham/Dedham line, across from Millennium Park.
Update: Yep, it was the East Street bridge.
The MBTA reports Franklin Line train 754 is between 30 and 40 minutes late into Boston because yet another trucker has slammed into a bridge in Dedham. The T didn't say which bridge, but if we were a betting site, we'd put good money on the ol' East Street bridge, which gets hit by truckers enough to be made an honorary Storrow Drive bridge.
The MBTA reports all service to Foxborough canceled under further notice because the driver of a truck hauling a trash compactor managed to slam his rig into a bridge in Dedham, hard enough to require track repairs. Here's hoping they get it fixed before Friday's Taylor Swift show at Gillette, because you don't want to get Swifties mad.
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