They grease up a telephone pole and try to walk across it to grab a flag. That's the 2011 Greasy Pole Contest held annually in Gloucester. We gather this is a big deal in Gloucester. Ali D'Angelo won on Sunday, according to our flickr contributor *Aqualung.
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Huggers will continue to find trees in Massachusetts as the Commonwealth is moving to protect more of its forests from logging, etc. [Berkshire Eagle]
Although there is resistance to Cape wind power, a Boston Harbor island may be a successful location. [Patriot Ledger]
Earth Day activists are in hot (clean?) water for camping overnight in Boston Common. [Boston Globe]
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After more than 40 years, a previously unreleased film from the day of President Kennedy's arrival in Dallas before his assassination is now on displat at the JFK museum at Dealey Plaza. [WHDH]
After more than 50 years, Kennedy's Swedish lover is auctioning off his love letters. (They were involved three months before he married Jaqueline Bouvier.) [Boston Channel]
The handcuffs that made Henry Louis Gates a national celebrity will never arrest another Harvard professor since they've been donated to the Smithsonian. [Boston Globe]
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The local paper is not a fan of the 'pregnancy pact' made-for-television movie. [Gloucester Times]
Worcester may avoid their own Lifetime movie since bus ads for Planned Parenthood have been approved. [Worcester Telegram]
UMass Medical has a new program to encourage the diversity of future doctors. [Boston Globe]
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After winning a $675k judgement against a BU grad student, they're attacking him for stuff happening in Sweden. [Ars Technica]
Green Line trains don't need texting conductors to derail at Government Center. [Boston Herald]
Gloucester's water system hasn't been safe to use for weeks. [Gloucester Daily Times]
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A Boston College psychologist says McCain is blinking too much to win. [MetroWest Daily News]
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Gloucester's Homeland Security camera on Rogers Street caught a 27-year old Gloucester man throwing snowballs at city police officers outside of Latitude 43 on Saturday morning. He's charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct after throwing snowballs near an officer in the "head and shoulder area." WHDH reported police saying the incident happened as "the bars were getting out."
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This summer the water has been filled with big fish that might want to eat us. In the last two weeks, there are reports of possibly yummy things in the ocean for us to eat. This weekend a Rhode Island man caught a rare yellow lobster. A yellow lobster is reportedly found at a rate of one in 30 million. Last week, an albino lobster was recovered from waters off of the Bay State by a Gloucester man. A critter like this is 1 in 100 million. Sadly, neither will ever be eaten.
Bostonist may have thought it's been raining a lot lately, especially after driving through a torrential downpour on Saturday, but some parts of Massachusetts are dealing with, or worried about, brush fires. Melrose firefighters fought a brush fire on Mount Hood for much of Tuesday afternoon. The wooded, sloped terrain around the of Mount Hood Golf Course hampered efforts to stop the fire. Gloucester closed all of its public woods indefinitely due to fears that "dry air and low humidity" could cause forest fires. The closure is in effect until "heavy rain" falls for at least three consecutive days.
Here's a pretty, simply composed photo of Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester. We're posting it today because we have high hopes for the weather this weekend. It's supposed to be beautiful on Saturday, perfect for a day of coastal shooting. And Sunday, of course, is the photo walk. Six pm in Allston. Hope to see many of you there!
-- Boston Police, with the help of the FBI and the Staties, arrested a man they called the "drug kingpin" of East Boston. Ferney Pereanez, 24, faces charges that he masterminded a massive cocaine distribution network that brought the drug from Colombia into Boston and then distributed it across the state. He and 7 of his alleged confederates were arrested today on a number of related charges. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney, the arrests were "the result of a wiretap operation so extensive that it required federal funding and at least three Spanish-speaking translators at any given time." [Suffolk County D.A.]
Hey, remember that pregnancy pact at Gloucester High School? You know, where everyone thought some Gloucester teens made a pact to get pregnant, but really they just all got pregnant at the same time (one of them by a homeless man!) and made a pact to raise the babies together? And Time magazine said it happened because of opposition to abortion, and others said it was because Gloucester is crumbling, and it was a big uproar for a while but has now disappeared except presumably there are still babies being raised by teens as a result? Anyway, Lifetime made a movie about the whole mess, and it premieres Saturday night, starring Thora Birch and Camryn Manheim. If this wasn't a sign of the apocalypse, this movie surely is. Even the poster does a good job of summarizing some of what was wrong with the situation, like the boys who impregnated the girls playing no role and just sort of sitting in the background looking dumb, and adults either being totally absent in the sea of pregnant girls or completely missing the important point: that kids really don't need to get pregnant and have children while they're still in high school. Let's just hope that the moral of the Lifetime movie isn't that everyone should be a Teen Mom.
- Six employees of the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad have been suspended without pay after a clandestine entertainment room was discovered at the Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville. The entertainment room featured three TVs, two DVD players, a video game system, and some of pornographic DVDs. [Boston Globe]
- Christmas broke out in Gloucester when a Disney toy was mistaken for a dangerous device. [Boston Globe]
Have you ever wanted to call Glenn Beck "the butt" repeatedly in a public forum where it really matters? Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza got the chance.
Today is just full of sad stories. Nothing can compare to the infuriating batting practice debacle, but this story is sweetly sorrowful. A North Shore native who volunteered as a lighthouse keeper at Thacher Island had sent out a message in a champagne bottle every year since 1991. Once missive found its way to Marshfield, which is something—but, more excitingly, a French couple recently came upon a message sent back in 2003. The couple responded by sending a postcard to the address include in the bottle, but the postcard was returned--the sender of the missive died last year of complications from surgery. It's uplifting to think that your maritime message could be received, but sad to realize you might not be around to get the response.
The anonymous, satirical website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990 is the brainchild of Isaac Eiland-Hall, according to legal documents filed today with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Switzerland. The papers were filed by Gloucester attorney Marc J. Randazza, who represents Eiland-Hall and who, if this brief is any indication, is among the North Shore's most hilarious legal writers.
Last Friday, State police arrested a 21-year-old World of Warcraft gamer who had driven to Madison, Wisc. to kill a 17-year-old rival, according to reports. Staties arrested Gloucester gamer Trevor L. Lucas on the Mass. Turnpike just outside of Boston on a warrant out of Wisconsin. They reported that Lucas was packing a real arsenal: "four semi-automatic hand guns - two of which were loaded - along with four loaded, large-capacity magazines, two stun guns, three pepper spray containers, two assault knives, two expandable police batons and seven sets of handcuffs."
photographynatalia has a great silhouette from Gloucester. The darkened gazebo with just a few highlights is a nice touch, and the back lit flag with faded colors is terrific.
There's a good piece in today's Washington Post about a community supported fishery (CSF) in Port Clyde, Maine. It works like community supported farms do. The Port Clyde Fresh Catch subscription service offers subscribers a share of fresh shrimp throughout the winter. It's an effort on the part of the Midcoast Fisherman's Association to stem the tide that's washing small, sustainable and independent fisheries off our shore. The Port Clyde CSF only delivers to Maine, but other groups, like these Maine lobstermen will ship food overnight.
-- Gary Gomes, a 35-year-old New Bedford, was arrested on charges that he stabbed his ex-girlfriend and mother to death, according to authorities. The rotting bodies were discovered by authorities yesterday in Gomes's mother's apartment after neighbors complained of natural gas. The bodies had been rotting for days. Gomes was on probation from a 2005 assault and battery conviction. Gomes had threatened his girlfriend with a knife. [Herald]
Fark has given the "amusing" (arguably preferable to "dumbass") label to a recent Globe story that uses Detroit as a model for same-sex public schools. Pontificating that "when one thinks of success, one thinks of Detroit," Farkers cleverly point to the undefeated completely defeated Detroit Lions and the city's beautiful scenery as reasons not to follow in Detroit's footsteps. Some even go so far as to say that Boston itself is not exactly a model of success (using the Big Dig as an example), though others toss out the Bruins' remarkable success (not to mention wins over the Red Wings) as a reason to admire our fair city. According to the Globe piece, Boston is considering modifying a 1971 law prohibiting gender-based admission to schools in order to establish some same-sex educational institutions in the city. Advocates of single-sex education argue that it allows students to concentrate on academics instead of each other. As one Detroit International Academy student notes, "All boys do is get you in trouble as far as with babies." So maybe Gloucester is the district that should be pushing for single-sex schools?
We hate to keep ragging on Gloucester, but they just make it so damn easy. In the wake of media coverage of its teen pregnancy crisis, Gloucester has decided that secret meetings with no media are the best way to continue not dealing with teen pregnancy. That's the spirit, Gloucester--make kids feel like sex, contraception, and pregnancy are such taboo topics that they need to be discussed in private! Pile on even more shame! What a way to open up dialogue.