Midnight oil at MassHighway!

Here I was, wrapping up another edition of the Times & Courier late Tuesday night (honestly, it’s nearly midnight, and I should be on the road by now), when what should come over the e-mail transom but this:
MASSHIGHWAY ANNOUNCES HIGHWAY HOTLINE
People Encouraged to Utilize #321 System to Identify Locations of [...]

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 [...]

Tomorrow: Hot dog grammy!

Leading off Thursday’s paper is Hot dog grammy, better known to hungry Clintonians as Grammy on the Go, the frankfurter Florence Nightingale of Depot Square, West Boylston Street and High Street, depending on the time of day. And wouldn’t you know it, we got the story done just in time for the end of National [...]

Drink up, Clinton!

The results of a Today Show tap water taste test are in and Massachusett’s MWRA is near the top. Water taken from a Massachusetts Water Resource Authority tap in Boston came in second to Salt Lake City (whose tap water is apparently very non-salty) in the contest.
Professional wine tasters were called in for the contest [...]

Welcome back, Potter

Saw that somewhere as a headline and guffawed. I always thought it would make a great Saturday Night Live skit — Harry Potter, 30, trying to school teenage John Travolta in wizardry at a run-down inner-city school … Sweathogwarts. Horschak as Weasley. Guaranteed knee-slapper. Remember, you heard it here first (although for all I know, [...]

Tomorrow’s Times today

Don’t ask me to explain it — I’m new around here — but those of you who buy the Times & Courier on newsstands know it: by mid-afternoon Wednesday, our Thursday newspaper is already on the streets.
Here’s a tour of what’s available at your local drugstore (or what you’ll be getting in the mail tomorrow):
One [...]

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 [...]