🌱 How a Lyft ride turned terrifying after a crash in West Boylston
West Boylston, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 3 min readGood day West Boylston! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a Lyft ride turned terrifying after a crash in West Boylston
- Why a major state power board chose West Boylston for its meeting
Today's riddle: What kind of shoes do frogs wear? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Saturday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 82 and low of 55 degrees.
- Sunday: Mostly sunny and nice, temps: high: 79, low: 57.
- Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 82 and low of 64 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• A ‘creepy' mime is arrested, two police officers help deliver a baby, and a rideshare ends badly (bostonglobe.com) — A frightening Lyft ride for a passenger began with the driver allegedly striking a guardrail on I-190 in West Boylston and refusing to let her out, before State Police later stopped him in Worcester and made an arrest. The roundup also mentions an odd “creepy” mime case in Framingham and Reading officers helping deliver a healthy baby on the roadside. 
• Holyoke Gas & Electric General Manager Elected to Serve as Chairman of MMWEC Board of Directors (publicpower.org) — West Boylston briefly takes the spotlight as the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company board meets here to elect Holyoke Gas & Electric’s James Lavelle as its new chairman. The story focuses on his long record leading Holyoke’s municipal utility and MMWEC’s role in supporting clean, reliable power for municipal light departments across Massachusetts.
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🗞 Nearby News
Shrewsbury
- Acreage Holdings Lead Dispensary Associate in Shrewsbury, MA (syracuse.com)
Worcester
- Worcester Playground To Close For Construction (patch.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Open-toad (Thank you Harold W. for sending it in!)
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