Mary Ellen, spending some time in Plymouth, looked up around 6:30 p.m. and spotted a drone flying overhead. No, not a whole flotilla like the ones allegedly peering down on New Jersey, just the one (with apparent white lights on a couple of its tips and a flashing red light on the bottom).
Mary Ellen was down in Plymouth this morning and spotted an eagle eating breakfast atop Flag Rock and a dolphin swimming nearby. And then a lobster boat puttered by.
More (caveat: some blood and guts): Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today broke with earlier case law and declared that engagement rings have to be returned on request in the event of a pre-marriage breakup regardless of who might be at fault in the parting of ways. Read more.
The Trump fan who'd been beaming his logo on the Hanson town water tower only to have the town bring in an even more powerful white spotlight to drown it out was back at it again tonight after he noticed the town had removed its spotlight, so the town hauled it back and turned it on again.
In a statement tonight, Town Administrator Lisa Green said: Read more.
A company in Plymouth called Beantown Home Services yesterday filed a federal trademark-infringement suit against a company in Middleboro called Beantown Home Improvements. Read more.
On Friday, some guy began using a spotlight to show the Trump logo on the town water tower. The town responds it's not putting up with nonsense like that so now town DPW workers have wheeled in a bright white spotlight of their own to try to blank out the Trump message - and the town attorney is getting ready to dun the guy $100 a day until he quits.
Town Administrator Lisa Green says the town is looking at buying a more powerful spotlight: Read more.
An email from the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation: Read more.
Joe Kidston watched the sun go down over the water and way out there, Boston, from Hull this evening.
Male fiddler crabs are small, with one oversized claw. Photo by David Samuel Johnson.
Nine years ago, I stood on the muddy banks of the Great Marsh, a salt marsh an hour north of Boston, and pulled a thumb-sized crab with an absurdly large claw out of a burrow. I was looking at a fiddler crab – a species that wasn't supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone north of Boston.
As it turned out, the marsh I was standing in would never be the same. I was witnessing climate change in action. Read more.
The US Attorney's office in Boston charges two men figured out how to profit from a visa program available to non-citizens who are victims of certain violent crimes and then help police: Stage gunpoint robberies at their workplaces and then have them tell police they were robbed. Read more.
The T won't be re-enacting Doré's vision of a ferry ride of the damned. Source.
The MBTA reports it's canceled its morning ferries tomorrow due to anticipated high winds and rough seas.
The Hingham ferry should resume service at 11 a.m., the Hingham/Hull/Logan ferry at 2 and the Charlestown ferry at noon, the T says.
WBZ Newsradio reports on what turned out to be hoax calls to Congregation Sha’aray Shalom in Hingham - which prompted police to evacuate both the temple and nearby houses - and Temple Beth Shalom in Needham.
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by a new teacher in Hanover who claimed her First Amendment rights to disparage transgender people, immigrants and Blacks were violated after school officials fired her after learning of her thoughts - in memes she posted after she won election to another town's school committee in an uncontested race. Read more.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday ordered a woman to return the $70,000 engagement ring her former beau bought her - but also ruled he would have to pay interest on the $43,000 a judge had already ordered him to pay for dental-implant surgery he had promised to cover during their engagement, for which she had her front teeth removed shortly before he broke things off. Read more.
CommonWealth whets our interest in "managed retreat" - the idea that as sea levels continue to rise, the long-term answer might be to move homes and other buildings away from the water, rather than trying to build seawalls or other measures, for example, for Hampton Circle, an area in Hull with water on two sides.
MBTA Commuter Rail reported at 7:47 p.m. that a train that left Wickford Junction at 4:35 p.m. remained stuck in Sharon, more than two hours after it was supposed to pull into South Station, because of a dreaded "mechanical issue," and now the crew and passengers are waiting for the 5:48 p.m. train from Wickford Junction to arrive and try to push it all the way into town, or off the tracks or something.
Cohasset Police posted a photo of the bear for which an officer blocked off North Main Street this afternoon to protect both it and drivers. Police add: "He's heading toward Hingham now."
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