The Swellesley Report chronicles a pair of arrests at a normally genteel restaurant in the normally genteel town: A couple who find the sight of masks disturbing while they eat asked people at another table to take their off. Those people refused, words were exchanged, other tables got involved and before police arrived the woman was hurling silverware and the man was threatening to beat up other patrons. Police then gave the couple a tour of their booking desk.

A Wellesley Hills couple is suing their now former architect for what they say are more than $15.5 million in overruns and years of delays on extensions and upgrades to their current home, a mess they say left them fuming and their tony street with a rather unseemly large hole with incorrectly placed concrete supports and structural walls. Read more.

The Swellesley Report reports a Wellesley business owner reported getting an envelope from somebody in Ohio that contained only a dime, and that other local businesses had gotten similar dime mailings.

The Swellesley Report alerts us that police in Wellesley are investigating a string of incidents in which men sent nude selfies to women they'd started chatting with on Instagram and SnapChat who claimed they had a deep interest in such things - only to then use the photos to blackmail the men by threatening to send copies to family and friends. One guy sent some money, but it wasn't enough, so the woman made good on her threat.

Wellesley Police reported around 1 p.m. that the driver of this car flipped on Rte. 9 eastbound just past Oakland Street. Only minor injuries, they report.

Wellesley Police report that Bacon Street is closed between Rte. 135 and Oak Street in Natick this morning thanks to the driver of a big rig who discovered too late his rig was too big for the Worcester Line train bridge. Crews and engineers are now on scene trying to remove the carcass and ensure the bridge is still structurally sound.

Via the Swellesley Report.

Greg Cook reports that Wellesley College's Davis Museum "has suspended all public access through March 31st" following yesterday's news that one of two Norfolk County residents with a "presumptive" diagnosis of Covid-19, contracted at that Biogen meeting at the Marriott Long Wharf, is from Wellesley. Read more.

The Swellesley Report reports, adds, the raccoon was a nursing mother, which means the drowning consigned some young raccoons to death as well.

From Waltham to Roslindale, people just asked themselves: "What the hell is that?" It was neither the leading edge of a death cloud or of a Canadian invasion, but instead fireworks in Wellesley, billed as "The biggest ever!" (well, at least for Wellesley) to help conclude Wellesley's Wonrderful Weekend (wow): Read more.

WBZ reports.