CommonWealth Beacon reports that the Wellesley Municipal Light Department, one of several town-owned electricity providers in the state, has teamed up with the former Joe-4-Oil on six 20-foot containers filled with large lithium-ion batteries that will charge at night, when wholesale electricity rates are lower, then discharge into the town power grid during peak daytime hours. Read more.
The Swellesley Report reports high schools in Wellesley, Wayland and Weston got calls Friday afternoon about a kid in a bathroom with a gun, only there was no kid in a bathroom with a gun. Somerville High School was also swatted Friday.
Alleged walk-up deposit at a drive-thru ATM in Needham by gang member Brandon Baez (from affidavit).
Last month, the US Attorney's office announced roundups of alleged members of the H Block and Mission Hill gangs.
The alleged associates of the H Block gang, based on the streets north of Franklin Park, were charged with the sort of gun- and drug-related offenses you'd expect. But their Mission Hill counterparts - based at the Mission Main and Annunciation Road projects - were charged with a different kind of crime with which to support their own violent warring: Heading out into wealthy suburbs and stealing large amounts of mail which they'd rifle for checks, so they could "wash" them with chemicals and make out checks in large amounts to themselves or accomplices. Read more.
Wellesley apartment buildings are apparently equipped with pitchforks in case some hay needs some pitching. The Swellesley Report reports (scroll down) that two men got into a verbal tiff in a local building when one grabbed a small pitchfork that just happened to be sitting there and threatened the other with it. The man then refused to answer his door when police came a-knockin', so they issued a summons to appear in court.
The Orange Line has a photo of some old Orange Line cars crossing Rte. 9 - on flatbed trucks.
The Swellesley Report updates us on the town's efforts to find a way to allow pickleball without outraging non-pickleball players. With the week's best pickleball-news editor's note.
The Swellesley Report reports the chain found the devices, which can read credit-card information, at five of its suburban locations.
Police in Wellesley wish to remind the citizenry that it's not 1955 anymore. Read more.
Jejes Coffee House, 259 Washington St. in Wellesley, is scheduled to open Wednesday, with certification to serve kosher coffee and pastries.
It's owned by Jejes Coffee Roasters of Sharon. It's opening comes a few days before the planned opening of a new kosher tavern in Somerville.
The Swellesley Report reports the town recreation commission has scheduled a hearing on complaints from residents near some town sportsball courts that pickleball is just too darn loud.
Police in Newton and Wellesley report a significant increase in people having their checks stolen by mailbox fishers, even from the newer models designed to prevent such crimes, and are telling residents it's time to drop their mail off at their local post office, rather than using a box on the street, especially if they contain checks. Read more.
The Swellesley Report reports a woman called police to report her car had been replaced by an exact duplicate (scroll down the page a bit).
Isaac Gardner was waiting for the train in Wellesley Square around 8:15 a.m. when the train arrived and then, just couldn't stop: Read more.
MBTA Commuter Rail reported delays of up to 30 minutes on the Worcester Line this morning due to "a rail defect in the Wellesley area."
There's a similar problem on the Newburyport Line. Are the rails not quite cold resistant?
When you're suing your architects because, you say, they forced your home-expansion project to go more than $15 million over budget, you do things like hiring 19 extra lawyers to supplement the 6 you've already retained to go through the more than 2 million pages of documentation the architects produced in response to your "discovery" demands. Read more.
A federal judge in Boston today dismissed a lawsuit by parents of several special-needs students in greater Boston alleging their children were unfairly singled out by the rapid shift from in-person to online learning as Covid-19 tore through the state in 2020 and 2021. Read more.
The Swellesley Report reports developers are looking to build life-sciences labs in the part of town that borders the interchange of routes 9 and 128.
The Swellesley Report sounds another alarm: Three houses in the leafy suburb were burgled early this morning though unlocked doors or windows. The miscreants tried to get into a fourth house, but were cunningly foiled because the residents there made sure to lock their doors before turning in. Police issued the now obligatory warning to residents to lock their doors.
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