Register To ParticipatePlan A for dismantling Goliath crane
Posted on August 20, 2008 by Victor DeRubeis
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For Goliath, it’s back to Plan A.
When work resumes to dismantle the massive Fore River crane, the remaining two legs will be taken down in 80-foot sections, as the original plans called for, rather than as a single, 160-foot length.
Greg Nordholm, the co-owner of NorSar, the company handling Goliath’s dismantling, said Tuesday that he and his engineers told the crane’s owner, Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries, of the change, “and they had no objection.”
Movie studio plan gets high grades
Posted on August 20, 2008 by Victor DeRubeis
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Plymouth Rock Studios would be a perfect fit for Plymouth schools, Plymouth schools Superintendent Gary Maestas.
The proposed infrastructure improvements will free up more than 15 acres for future school expansion and save the department $100,000 in yearly operating costs for its problem-plagued sewage treatment plant, Maestas said.
And rather than busing vocational-education students across town for internship opportunities. They will be right next door.
Complete studio saga coverages starts here.
Yaz in the hospital
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Peter Chianca
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Baseball Hall-of-Famer and Boxford resident Carl Yastrzemski was admitted to Mass. General Hospital earlier today, according to this story posted by ESPN.
Here’s hoping Yaz is OK and his visit to the hospital is a short one. Check with the Tri-Town Blog for updates on his condition.
UPDATE: The AP is reporting that Yastrzemski was resting comfortably Tuesday night after having triple bypass heart surgery.
Mashpee native dies in Afghanistan
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Kat Powers
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Pfc. Paul E. Conlon was 21 years old.
Carnival worker charged with rape
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Sarah Corbitt
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A worker at the Marshfield Fair has been charged with the rape of two young girls.
Police said Jeffrey D. Witham of 100 Fore St., Oxford, Maine, exchanged phone numbers with the girls and went to the home in Marshfield where one of them lived on Saturday night. The girls, ages 13 and 14, were alone when Witham allegedly showed up. Police said he sexually assaulted one girl in the living room, then took the other into a bedroom and raped her. Then he raped the first girl, police said. When they ran from the house, he allegedly chased one and tried to drag her into the woods, police said. They escaped and one girl called her father, who called police.
Witham is being held in lieu of a $150,000 bond. The case was continued to Sept. 5.
Just in case politics don’t work out
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Kat Powers
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Somerville’s mayor is being credited with stopping an assault in progress.
Body found in Tauton pond
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Sarah Corbitt
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A man having lunch on shore spotted the body of a woman floating on Watson Pond yesterday.
Sgt. Matthew McCaffrey — who is also the commander of the Taunton Police dive team — said the victim appeared to have been in the water for nearly two days by the time he and Patrolman Shawn Mulhern pulled her ashore. McCaffrey said the fully clothed body was floating between 20 and 30 yards offshore in a “very weedy area” that included lily pads. He said she was dressed neatly, wearing a shirt tucked into a pair of jogging pants as well as sneakers and socks. “It looked like someone who was out for a walk,” McCaffrey said.
He needs a different type of green
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Sarah Corbitt
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A recent high-school grad, bound for college this fall, shelled out over $3,000 of his college tuition money to create a display for the Mass. Horticultural Society at the New England Flower show, on the understanding that Mass. Hort would reimburse him.
Jon Sell, 18, who won three awards for his project, has yet to see a check.
That is because the 179-year-old organization is foundering. The society, is wrangling with a budget gap of at least $800,000. Two-thirds of its staff have been let go in the last two months.
Review: ‘The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen’
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Peter Chianca
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You may recall the Patriot Ledger’s profile earlier this summer of Stoughton Rev. Jeffrey B. Symynkywicz, author of the new book “The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen.” Now Blogness on the Edge of Town offers a review that says Symynkywicz’s look at the spirituality of Springsteen will strike a chord with diehard Bruce tramps:
This detailed, thoughtful analysis is a welcome and thought-provoking look at the words of an important artist whose work has and continues to resonate … If you have all those albums on your shelf and have enjoyed them through the years — and maybe even leaned on them to get you through the rough patches of life — “The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen” will at the very least have you nodding your head in enthusiastic agreement.
Check out the full review at Blogness, or a highlights version at PatriotLedger.com.
My love is like frosting
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Kat Powers
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This is the bakery window Jay Bell used to propose to his cupcake-loving girlfriend.
Lyndell’s owner, Bill Galatis, said that this is first time they had a proposal in the store in its 121-year history. “It was exciting, it was fun, it was romantic and everything went off without a hitch and exactly as he wanted it,” he said. “We were honored they thought of us. They are both honored customers and we wanted to accommodate them.”
That’s customer service.
Eateries take big hit from water woes
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Victor DeRubeis
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The owner of two Dunkin’ Donuts franchises in town says he loses $4,500 to $5,000 in sales every day his stores are closed.
Farther along Route 53, Marylou’s remains open, but only after dumping about 120 gallons of liquid on the first day of Pembroke’s boil-water order and using close to 1,600 gallons of bottled water to make its coffees and other drinks in the week and a half since.
As Pembroke’s E. coli water problem drags on, the costs for its restaurants and coffee shops are mounting.
The town has been operating under the water order since Aug. 8.
Clash of philosophies on studio plan
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Victor DeRubeis
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Supporters say their process would be more streamlined and get Plymouth Rock Studios built sooner.
Critics want something that’s more democratic but potentially far more lengthy.
The two philosophies clashed Monday night in what may be a preview of a town meeting battle in October.
One town meeting member said he won’t support a bylaw at town meeting without a special-permit requirement and will urge his colleagues to reject it, too.
Year’s first EEE sample found in Mass.
Posted on August 18, 2008 by Peter Chianca
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Pull out those long-sleeve shirts, long pants with the socks pulled up over them and, while you’re at it, a ski mask and a scarf wouldn’t be a bad idea: EEE is here.
Actually, right now it’s just in Carver — or at least that’s where the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found this year’s first positive sample of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. There are no human cases yet, but it doesn’t hurt to protect yourself from mosquitoes (i.e. the flying harbingers of death), especially given the amount of West Nile virus that’s already turned up in crows in Belchertown, Worcester, Hingham, Plymouth and Barnstable and mosquito samples from Boston, Brookline, Needham, Weymouth, Dedham, Brockton, Dartmouth, Worcester and Medford.
“With as much virus as we are finding in our environment, it is likely that we could start to see human cases,” said DPH State Epidemiologist Dr. Al DeMaria. “We are asking that everyone remember to take a few simple steps to protect yourself and your family from getting bitten by mosquitoes. The good news is that steps you take to protect yourself from WNV will also protect you from EEE. These include reducing your exposure to mosquitoes, especially by using mosquito repellent.”
Find out how to protect yourself at Wicked Local Medford.
Hollywood comes to North Andover
Posted on August 18, 2008 by Peter Chianca
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We know that Massachusetts is the “New Hollywood” — but who would have thought that North Andover would ever be a stomping ground for the stars? Not that they’re out clubbing there (yet), but they did take over a neighborhood last week to shoot scenes from the upcoming drama Waking Madison. They’re shooting for three weeks at a foreclosed-upon house — so who says their was no upside to the mortgage crisis?
The film features Oscar nominees Elisabeth Shue and Thomas Haden Church, who were captured on location by Wicked Local paparazzi-for-a-day Nicole Goodhue Boyd. Keep up with the latest on the shoot at the North Andover Blog.
UPDATE: Doh! The movie is not actually Waking Madison — it’s Don McKay, a black comedy about a woman (Shue) who wants to kill her husband (Church) and pretends that she’s dying of cancer.
Civilian flaggers or police?
Posted on August 18, 2008 by Peter Chianca
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Take the Wicked Local poll:
Firefighter collapses at scene of fire
Posted on August 18, 2008 by Sarah Corbitt
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A firefighter and a police officer were injured in yesterday’s three-alarm fire at 50 Flint St. in Somerville.
Reports at the scene note an officer was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, and the fire incident commander, Dept. Chief Steve Keenan, collapsed at the scene and was also taken to the hospital.
Police officer injured at Marshfield Fair
Posted on August 18, 2008 by Sarah Corbitt
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A part-time Duxbury police officer was hit by a car while directing traffic at the Marshfield Fair this weekend.
Melvin E. Dyer, 67, was taken to Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston by helicopter after Marshfield police found him unconscious and on the ground at about 10 p.m. Saturday, the second day of the fair.
Best summer band
Posted on August 16, 2008 by Scott Smith
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Our favorite summer band, who visits Plymouth every year, is the one and only rhythm-rocking, drummin’-stomping, kick-ass band from Marth’a Vineyard - Entrain. The band scorched the harbor again last week. Old Colony Memorial photog Wes Ennis captured the moment gorgeously, as seen by this photo of fans dancing into the night. He also has a clip of Entrain on video. Check it out…
Ironworker remembered as ‘one of the best’
Posted on August 15, 2008 by Sarah Corbitt
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Robert Harvey, killed yesterday in a crane accident in Quincy, was remembered today by family and friends.
A perfect ‘Spelling Bee’ at NSMT
Posted on August 15, 2008 by Peter Chianca
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As a card-carrying native of the actual Putnam County, N.Y. (well, they didn’t actually issue us cards — but if they did, they’d be double laminated!), I can bring a personal perspective to the unabashed hilarity that is “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” running through Aug. 31 at North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly.
I didn’t recognize much from my hometown in the show (although come to think of it I may have gotten my first pair of glasses from fake sponsor Putnam County Optometrists), but that didn’t detract from what must be one of the funniest and sharpest productions ever mounted on NSMT’s famed rounded stage. (”Have you ever been in a gymnasium in the round?” asks one especially perceptive character.)
North Shore Sunday has the scoop on the show, which began at the Barrington Stage Company in western Massachusetts before conquering Broadway. And look for our review shortly — hopefully we’ll spell everything right.
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