Posts Tagged ‘friends’
Kitty kidnapper strikes on Christmas Eve; $500 reward offered for return
A Kingston adoption center is offering a $500 reward for the safe return of “Speckles,” a kitten kidnapped on Christmas Eve, the center director said. The cat was taken between volunteer shifts at the center, between noon and 2:30, said Gayle Fitzpatrick, director of Friends of the Plymouth [...]
Abandoned safe, and the $178,000 inside, belong to state, judge rules
After more than three years, the rightful owner of a large sum of cash found in an abandoned safe has finally been determined. The safe and its contents -- $178,496 -- belong to the state of Massachusetts, Robert A. Cornetta, an Essex Superior Court judge, said in a Nov. 28 ruling. The safe had [...]
Turning it around
After a troubled adolescence in Brookline, Saskia Epstein has embarked on a new path. As CEO of the nonprofit Room to Grow, Theo Epstein's sister-in-law is using her experience to help children and families in need. View original post here: Turning it around
Gifts for the office
If your friends are in cubicles all day, don't you want them to at least be in stylish cubes? Here are some of our favorite suggestions for gifts to perk up a friend's tiny space. Original post: Gifts for the office
Mid-Century Modern: Preservation or New Construction? – These houses to are to new generations what the preservation and restoration of Victorians were to their parents.
Preserve? My business partner and I have a new listing coming on today in Lincoln. It’s a 1957 house designed by noted Modernist architect, Constantin Pertzhoff, modestly sized and in need of some restoration. So why is it listed for $998,800? Because it’s on nine-plus [...]
Arriving at Mid-Century Modern Lexington
I moved to Lexington from Somerville in my mid-20s. I went pushing and screaming. But my band, Buffalo Tom, had just started to make some modest money, and my wife and I had enough saved for a down payment. So we started to look at real estate. First we started in Cambridge, but, wanting a single [...]
Bostonist Interview: Tim Conway – To Appear at the Wilbur on Sunday
Tim Conway & Friends perform at the Wilbur Theatre this Sunday at 4pm. We managed to have a quick phone conversation with Mr. Conway who gave us the background on his current show as well as classic bits from "The Carol Burnett" show that earned him 6 Emmys and more. Here is the [...]
The ‘Net is Fixed!
Someone turned off the Internets. Turns it out, it was Comcast. Bostonist, like most of you, was without a working internet connection for about two hours tonight courtesy of our friends at Comcast. Universal Hub reports there was a problem with Comcast's DNS servers. We're certain U-Hub is [...]
Bite Size News, November 16: Valor Edition
Image by .scott.williams. from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr . Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta of Iowa received the Medal of Honor from President Obama today. He is the first living soldier to earn the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Matt Boisvert of Pepperell, a disabled Iraq war veteran, [...]
Body Found Near Blue Hills Reservation
A mangled body was discovered by a passerby on Brierbrook Street in Milton near the Blue Hills Reservation on Monday night. Police said an autopsy scheduled for today could provide an explanation for what caused the victim's death. The body was partially clothed and could have been moved. Police [...]
