On account of the fireworks barge catching on fire last night.
Marblehead
Update: Charges dropped.
A man the feds call "a purported Orthodox Christian monk" and his live-in lawyer were arrested today on charges they defrauded the government out of $3.6 million in Covid relief funds by filing bogus applications filled with lies about how many employees they had to obtain money that they then used to upgrade the properties they already owned and to buy a new one, rather than using the money to keep employing workers they did not, in fact, have. Read more.
Rick Macomber watched the sunrise over Little Harbor in Marblehead - and the First Harbor Company's Christmas-tree dinghy.
5 Corners Kitchen in Marblehead reports an unexpected challenge in running outdoor seating: A right-wing asshole with a sign: Read more.
Rick Macomber took in the view of Gas House Beach in Marblehead after some snow.
Rick Macomber (and a drone, we assume) captured the sunset over the causeway to Marblehead Neck this evening.
Rick Macomber watched the sun go down from Village Street Landing in Marblehead. Read more.
Marblehead residents are scheduled for a No Place for Hate rally at Riverhead Beach at 10 a.m. today to protest the anti-Semitic graffiti (with a couple of pro-Trump, anti-Moulton tags) found on a seawall there over the weekend.
The Lynn Item police log for Sept. 2 includes the following item from Marblehead:
A report of two kids bike riding at 9:34 a.m. Monday at Indianhead Circle. Caller reports it is suspicious because the kids on the bikes were black.
Via Bradley.
Move to Marblehead and get an honorary mention in a photo competition so you can tell the woman who won first place how the judges blew it because her photo is obviously inferior.
Roberto writes that when he went to Marblehead Light yesterday to eat lunch, he noticed another car in the parking lot. And then he saw there were two people in the car. And then he thought: Is that woman doing what he thinks she's doing to that man? Yes, she was.