Exonerated man went through wringer

Our sister paper The Daily News Tribune in Waltham came out today with the story of a Clinton man falsely accused of bank robbery.
It seems John D. Spencer, a Highland Avenue man, was arrested in Waltham five years ago and police showed his mugshot to the teller after the July 10 heist at Citizens Bank. [...]

Emergency call

Our story on Richard Brown’s dismissal as emergency management director hadn’t even hit newsstands when we got the tip that someone had trashed the CEMA headquarters on High Street, damaging a van and spraypainting the walls.
Jeff Ring at ClintonMass.us beat us to the scoop, and says the vandalism appears to be retaliation from someone unhappy [...]

Clinton man nabbed for bank heists

Waltham and Clinton police, along with the FBI, yesterday arrested a Clinton man accused of several Boston-area bank robberies, according to a report today from the Arlington Advocate newspaper.
The attempted robbery in Waltham Tuesday morning was just one of a rash of four reported area bank robberies or attempted robberies yesterday with suspects matching similar [...]

Have gun, will … get wrestled to the ground?

Debates over the Second Amendment aside, there’s something about the site of a concealed weapon that just doesn’t sit well with some folks. A man crashing a Clinton party recently found that out when after getting in a scuffle with a fellow party-goer someone noticed he was carrying a gun. Others wrestled him to the [...]

Can a sex offender live there?

Should towns pass laws limiting where sex offenders can live and work? It’s a question that’s been asked in Clinton recently and we’re not alone. Several other towns in the commonwealth have either passed or are considering passing such laws.
Check out this story from our sister paper MetroWest Daily News today on Marlborough’s attempts to [...]

Justice with a side of fries

It’s amazing what happens to some people when they get behind the wheel. Check out this story just in from Bedford about a Clinton man’s alleged escapade at a McDonald’s drive-through in that town.
We’ve all sat behind drivers that do stupid things, but if what police said this guy did is true, he went too [...]

Not in my neighborhood

One of the comments in a previous post I thought had some particularly good points, so I’d like to repost it here. Donna R. said:
I recently did extensive research on sex offender residency laws and found that states that have residency restrictions are are not working. In Iowa they have found that sex offenders are [...]