Please note that the Fire Department transitioned Record Management Software on 9/13/2022 from “FireHouse” to “ESO Fire RMS”. Therefore, there are three reports for Calendar Year 2022 – one for FireHouse (1/1/2022-9/12/2022), one for ESO (9/13/2022-12/31/2022), and a compilation totaling for 2022. 2023 2022 2021
Author: Francisco Madera
The Green at 9 & 90 Preliminary Fire Report
“Due to the need of several interested parties, the operational portion of the fire report for this fire is being released. Per G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(f), and lack of an actual record of such, the Fire Origin & Cause investigation portion of the report will be released when the investigation is complete.”
Framingham’s Anti-Semite John Reardon’s Conditions of Release
Last month, John Reardon of Millis, MA, formerly a long term resident of a SMOC shelter in Framingham, called threatening and hateful messages into several synagogues south of the Boston area. At the time of his arrest he was living in a SMOC facility in Millis. See our Jan 29th post, ‘Man calling in threats
A First Look: Legal Seafood’s Sushi Menu
Code ‘Small Mango’: Store illegally selling SC Menthols
In an undercover sting, a health department informant finds store illegally selling menthol cigarettes, under code phrase “Small Mango”. This isn’t DTF. This is in Nobscot… north side, at the Nobscot Convenience Store. Menthol cigarettes have been made illegal for sale in Massachusetts. It is illegal to sell out of state cigarettes and these are
Ashland resident Steve Hak takes things too far after City Council Meeting on MetroWest Medical Center
Please note that this email mentions an Executive Session Exemption 5 (“To investigate charges of criminal misconduct or to consider the filing of criminal complaints”) and that was later changed to accurately reflect Exemption 4 (“To discuss the deployment of security personnel or devices, or strategies with respect thereto”).
So that 4 women can live together for the rest of their lives – Advocates seeks $75,000 of public monies to demolish a 200-year-old house
Advocates has applied to receive $75,000 of public CDBG funds to make this heartwarming project a reality. “Advocates is proposing to demolish a 200-year-old building and build a new, four-bedroom, 2,400 sq ft fully accessible group home at 693 Concord Street in Framingham, on property owned by Advocates. This project will increase the availability of
Framingham’s Rose Garden Apartments has sold
On Jan 30, 2024, the Rose Garden Apartment complex has sold from Rose Gardens LLC (VTT Management) and transferred to NC RR Framingham Apartments LLC. The complex is located at 258-262 Union Ave. Rose Garden has been on our radar for years, with complaints of rodents, swarming roaches, bad tenants, and sudden rent increases… The
The plan to redevelop Cedar Swamp into Cedar Woods/Park, has re-emerged, park tour planned.
First proposed several years ago due to one resident’s appeals to the, then town. The proposal has re-emerged, and proponents hope that the opposition to the plan is less feverous. Neighbors then, didn’t want to open their back yards up to public use, the already polluted wetlands, at risk, and with drug addicted vagrants living
Man calling in threats to synagogue had Framingham ties. A past of homicidal ideation, crimes, and assaults.
Reardon lived in and may have been evicted from SMOC housing at 46 Pratt Street, DTF. Below you can find a complaint, of a SMOC resident who stated he “lived in fear of Reardon”. He blamed FPD Officer Susan Machado for his eviction from housing, and filed repeated complaints against her. He has been before
Ashland’s Police Chief Suspended. Is Rossi under POST Commission Investigation? Is she Brady List imminent?
Ashland Select Board meeting on Wednesday April 20, 2022 at the very beginning of the meeting at 7:05 min in, there was brief off-microphone awkward discussion between the Town Manager Herbert and Chairman Joe Magnani. Magnani as you know was a former police officer in the Town use that term loosely, he was known around
FOIA DUMP: 2023 LETF Spending
What is the concern with these monies. First off – there is no oversight here. This money can be spent on just about anything. Secondly, soon it will bes budget season, and the Framingham Police will be asking for a increased budget from the city for necessities, when we now know that the department has
A FIRST LOOK: Saxonville intersection improvement proposal
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A FIRST LOOK: Mary Dennison Park renderings & woes
On Jan 30, in City Council, the city will seek millions of dollars in cost overruns in the rehabilitation of polluted Mary Dennison Park. Nearly $20,000,000 was appropriated to the project in 2019. We expect the city to ask for an additional $17,000,000 to make the ends meet, pay the low bid contractor the initial
A FIRST LOOK: Recommendations for the City’s Use of Opioid Settlement Funds
This to be presented Jan 30, 2024 in City Council. There was a mega cash grab that took place involving emails by SMOC and other service organizations to the mayor seeking access to this money. We may post these later.