MassDOT yesterday sued a Charlestown company whose driver was going down 128 with the back of his "rollback" flatbed in the upright position - at least until he slammed into the bottom of an overpass at Endicott Street in Danvers on Nov. 14, 2020. Read more.
By adamg - 6/9/23 - 1:05 pm
Trung Nguyen, 47, of Danvers, was arrested today on two counts of money laundering and one count of operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business for the three years federal investigators say he ran a scheme to convert money from drug dealers and, in one case, an online romance scammer, into Bitcoin cryptocurrency. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/12 - 9:57 am
State Police report a box truck full of ice rolled over around 8:30 a.m. on a ramp from Rte. 128 north to Rte. 62 in Danvers. No word if it was in a convoy with a Scotch truck.
By adamg - 11/25/09 - 9:20 am
Around 11:30 a.m., apparently.
Via the Herald, which wags its stern editorial finger at kids today.
Meeping music video (do NOT listen at work without headphones).
By adamg - 11/17/09 - 3:59 pm
When New York lawyer Theodora Michaels read about the meeping ban at Danvers High School, she wanted to do something.
By adamg - 7/22/09 - 11:01 am
The Salem News reports a Danvers man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly tried to run down his local garbagemen because they wouldn't take all of his trash under a new town regulation limiting the amount of trash in a single container.
By adamg - 11/27/06 - 12:08 pm
Danvers resident Dan Kennedy doesn't get the fire chief's refusal to let federal chemical investigators on the explosion scene:
By adamg - 11/24/06 - 10:27 am
Jenglo is a nurse at a hospital near Danvers, and was on duty when the ink plant exploded.
By adamg - 11/23/06 - 12:40 pm
Andrew Jacob films from within the blast zone, with original music composed the night of the explosion, "The Night Before Turkey Day Explosion:"
By adamg - 11/22/06 - 8:19 pm
Alfred Nylund lives near the ink plant. He reports:
... My windows were blown in and there was a weird glow outside like dusk, or a solar eclipse, only with an eerie red tinge. Just across the river, where the chemical plant once stood, there rose 300 feet into the sky a mushroom cloud. It's no wonder that people thought that this was the end of it all... World War III, and they ARE nuking small town America, just like "The Day After" said they would! Only no Steve Guttenberg running around like an idiot.
People wandered the streets checking to see if their neighbors were alright. Closer to the blast zone, these wandering people were the walking wounded. It was a surreal experience.
Every house on my street sustained significant damage ...
Michael Agri videos the fire - and captures commentary from other residents watching the inferno:
By adamg - 11/22/06 - 4:35 pm
In searching YouTube for videos of this morning's explosion, I ran across Tyler LaVite's video on the demolition of the Danvers Insane Asylum, built in 1874 but mostly torn down this year to make way for a residential development:
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