The other day, Greg Cook took the Orange Line to Oak Grove, then walked about 15 minutes up to the Cascade, a 40-foot waterfall on Shilly Shally Brook in Melrose's part of the Middlesex Fells. He has more photos at the link, and more specific directions.
By adamg - Sat, 01/25/2025 - 2:18pm
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By adamg - Thu, 12/28/2023 - 10:43pm
A federal judge today approved the extradition of a man living in a Melrose senior apartment complex to Northern Ireland, where he will be formally charged with 12 counts of "indecently assaulting" his niece between 1975 and 1979, starting with fondling when she was 11 and eventually raping her when she was 14. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 11:29am
A teller supervisor at a bank in Malden is charged with walking out of his bank with $375,000 in cash over several months - and trying to hide his tracks by creating bogus records to make it seem like the money had been transferred to the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 10/14/2021 - 12:14pm
A 69-year-old Melrose man who received his first financial-fraud conviction when he was just 19 was sentenced yesterday to seven years and three months in federal prison for a scheme in which he received some $350,000 in Massachusetts unemployment payments, many in the names of people actually not eligible for unemployment because they were in prison. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 10/30/2020 - 11:06am
June Politano reports she got a little bored while waiting for the bus on the Fellsway this morning, so she left a message for other riders.
Patrick Melrose, meanwhile, contemplated the mixed message of snow-covered pumpkins in Melrose: Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/26/2019 - 11:11am
Andrew Applegate reports the Shaw's in Melrose wasted no time getting its Easter stocks out today - right next to the (discounted?) Christmas cards.
By adamg - Thu, 11/22/2018 - 7:31pm
The Washington Post interviews Scott Macaulay, who has been making dinner for all who ask since 1985.
By adamg - Mon, 01/22/2018 - 8:59am
Greg Cook takes a walk to the still frozen Cascade falls in Melrose - and provides directions for how to get there from Oak Grove station on the Orange Line.
By adamg - Sat, 07/23/2016 - 6:49pm
It looked like a killer death storm was about to swallow up Boston late this afternoon. That John Gage was able to post this photo strongly suggests it didn't.
It did, however, get pretty intense in places such as Chelsea and Melrose: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/18/2016 - 9:48pm
Around 5:25 p.m. near 94 Vinton Rd. in Melrose, Transit Police report.
By adamg - Sat, 11/28/2015 - 12:27pm
Wicked Local Melrose reports on the death of Garrett Swasey, one of three people murdered yesterday at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Peter Gelzinis says the attack brings back memories of John Salvi's rampage in Brookline.
By adamg - Sat, 04/25/2015 - 5:36pm
A roving UHub photographer was out for a hike with his family in the Middlesex Fells this morning:
Some jerks left a fire pit and a bunch of beer cans which led to the fire. It was about 100yds long and pretty deep in at the time we found it. Melrose fire called.
By adamg - Sun, 01/04/2015 - 10:27am
Melrose Police report arresting a Melrose man early this morning after, they say, he led officers on a careening chase that ended at the Malden River, where he drove into the water - on the rims that were all that were supporting his pickup - then got
By adamg - Sat, 12/20/2014 - 12:30pm
WBZ reports the store owner told a mentally disabled customer his winning lottery ticket was worth $1,000 - and gave him $950 in cash for it. The ticket was actually worth $10,000.
By adamg - Sun, 08/31/2014 - 10:10am
A couple who used to shop at the Melrose Shaw's is suing the chain's parent companies over a massive credit-card breach disclosed earlier this month - saying the
By adamg - Mon, 08/04/2014 - 6:34pm
A Melrose man originally from Albania allegedly preyed on two of his fellow countrymen, stringing them along for years - and thousands of dollars in payments - by pretending he was a G-man who could get one a law-enforcement job and get the other one's
By adamg - Thu, 02/11/2010 - 3:01pm
Melrose Police are looking for two guys who got away from a housebreak on Feb. 10 with a number of items, including "a large amount of change" and a pillowcase. They put the change in the pillowcase, then booked it to a nearby Johnnie's Foodmaster, where they poured all the change into the CoinStar machine.
Police did not say if the duo sucked up the CoinStar service fee and cashed in at the service desk or if they went for a gift card from one of CoinStar's many fine merchant partners.
By adamg - Wed, 12/02/2009 - 9:28pm
Channel 5 reports a Melrose shopowner says she found the visage of Mother Teresa on a cutting board.
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