Waltham's big eater ready to pig out at weekend competition

Performers in Canton’s first official teacher/staff talent show, “Canton’s Got Talent,” wowed audiences last Friday.

Calendar for Waltham and Newton

There was a time that I didn't drink beer from McNeill's Brewery in Vermont. But it's back in my lineup now, after the brewery made a few changes.

Last week's Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America, held at the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center in Boston, is the largest craft beer industry event in the country.

Video: These guys know their beer

Seemingly benign, this invasive is a landscape wrecker.

Q: Attached is 1899 correspondence between a distant relative and Edwin Barber. The pictures enclosed are of the chocolate pot and a small bowl. There are also chocolate cups, saucers and plates in the set. The design seems to portray Penn's Treaty with the Indians. The fact that these pieces were not familiar to Barber, who was such a renowned expert, is curious and interesting. Are you able to identify the set? - P.E., Aiken, S.C.

To paraphrase former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, you go to war with the allies you have, not the allies you might want.

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Our thanks to the 46 public-spirited volunteers who joined the town-wide Earth Day Clean up sponsored by the Westborough Community Land Trust on April 25. More than 70 bags of trash were picked up from town streets and parks by families and individuals who worked to make our surroundings cleaner and safer. Even Miss Environmental Massachusetts, Kymberly Young, joined our 6:30 a.m., early bird team to clean up Bellows Road and East Main Street near Friendly's. Other volunteer teams concentrated their efforts along Flanders Road, the West Meadow Rte. 9 intersection, Otis Street, Lake Chauncy, Oak Street, Bowman Street, and Minuteman Park.

Jennie Maroney is right ("Free speech for Miss California," May 6). As much as I disagree with Ms. California's answer to Perez Hilton's question regarding gay marriage she has a constitutionaly protected right to say what she believes, especially when someone asks her a question on national TV. If Mr. Hilton couldn't deal with her answer he never should have asked the question.

A recent study has deemed Waltham as one of the cities most perfectly positioned to be a potential landing spot for a biotechnology company.

The City Council on Monday will hear about plans to build 56 condominiums as well as stores or offices in a proposed building at Elm and River streets.

Police News for May 7, 2009

A British man accused of murdering his elderly grandmother in March will be arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court on May 19. James Maguire-Clark, 22, who lives in Dorchester, was indicted last week by a Middlesex grand jury, charged with murdering his grandmother, Eleanor Clark, 80, in Weston home on March 15.

Community briefs for Waltham and Newton

May events at the Waltham Council on Aging, W.F. Stanley Senior Center, 488 Main St.; hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.