Starer in attack mode in the Capitol. Photo via FBI.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, an Ashland gynecologist and addiction-recovery specialist formerly affiliated with Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, is negotiating a possible plea deal for the way she was charged with punching a DC cop in the head during the failed Jan. 6 coup attempt in Washington, according to court records. Read more.
A federal magistrate judge yesterday released Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland on personal recognizance following her arrest yesterday on charges she not only strolled into the Capitol on Jan. 6 but punched a cop in the head, but set several conditions, including a couple Starer would be familiar with, since, in addition to gynecology, she also specializes in addiction treatment, specifically to undergo random drug tests. Read more.
Starer punching a DC cop in the Capitol, photo via FBI.
Dr. Jacquelyn Starer, an Ashland gynecologist and addiction-recovery specialist affiliated with Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, was arrested today on charges she didn't just enter the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attempted putsch, she punched a Washington cop in the left side of her head. Read more.
Ashland Police report arresting Jose Arevalos-Avalos, 37, of Holliston, for indecent assault and battery and attempting to pay for sexual conduct for an incident Friday afternoon: Read more.
About 18 hours after somebody was hit and killed by a commuter-rail train in Chelsea, somebody has been hit and killed by another train, this time by an Amtrak train in downtown Ashland. Transit Police report a man, 62, was hit and killed by the train at Front Street around 1:50 p.m..
Chimneys aren't all they're quacked up to be, a duck in Ashland discovered today. Fortunately, he or she flew down the chimney in the Perrys' house, they weren't having a fire and so they spent a good part of the afternoon getting the duck out and then letting it fly away. Read more.
The Ashland Fire Department reports firefighters who responded to a fire in a Linden Street chicken coop were able to evacuate all the chickens safely and put out the fire.
Hours after Planet Aid sued Ashland over a town order to remove its ubiquitous yellow boxes, the town agreed to let the boxes stay.
The charity sued Ashland in US District Court on Friday - and asked for a temporary restraining order - charging a June 1 order from the town building inspector that it remove its ten collection boxes within ten days violated its First Amendment rights. At issue was a proposed town bylaw to regulate donation boxes and charge fees for them.
In its complaint, Planet Aid argued: Read more.
Dan O'Brien photographed the Arthur T. posters in the bakery at the Ashland Market Basket today. He also captured the pro-T flier posted to the store entrance.
Produce shelves at Market Basket stores across the area remained empty today as Arthur S.'s minions fired at least 7 pro-Arthur T. workers.
Channel 4 reports officials broke up what they said was a bird-fighting ring run out of an Ashland resident's basement. Authorities say they rescued 50 battle-hardened finches. Wait, what? Finches? Yes, with sharpened beaks, the better to gore their opponents to death.
Mels reports spending 45 minutes in Clocktown at night trying to get back to Rte. 9:
... It is one thing to get lost in the city, where things are well lit, and there are gas stations or Store 24s where you can pull over and get your bearings or ask for directions. The middle of Metro West is a whole other story, driving around on dark winding roads where you need to have your high beams on until a car coming the other direction, with its high beams on, forces you to cut the lights and drive blind for a moment or two. We had to retrace our steps not once, but twice, when we finally found a man getting into his car in Ashland Center who told us how to get to Route 9, and, from there, the Pike. (Bless him.) ...
Julia Spitz reports she learned her lesson the hard way, when she decided to walk across the ice to an island in the Ashland Reservoir:
... It must be safe, right? Look, grownups, kids, dogs, all out on the ice. And I'd always wanted to see what the view looked like from one of the islands in the Ashland Reservoir.
Things were going real well until I got a few feet from the island. Then came the sound. Then came the gushing cold water.
News of the latest Ashland lady getting arrested for prostitution leaves Julia Spitz wondering what's up with the normally quiet Framingham suburb:
... I love my hometown, I truly do. But from time to time we've been known to have some, well, issues. All variety of water woes, lingering concerns about Nyanza, the occasional flare-up of drugs and motorcycle gangs. Now we seem to be a magnet for prostitution. ...
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