The End of Summer

This week marks the end of summer.

As August turns to September, nearly all of us who have spent our lives in New England lament the passing of summer.

Summers are short. Our memories of some summers are lifelong.

There have been summers when we fell in love, when we fell out of love, when we roared in our youth at parties and summer style bashes, and there were summers when we couldn’t get up for any- thing, when we were sick, or recovering from illness or from the death of a love one.

There is not telling what a summer holds until it is done.

The summer of 2022 is done.

It is finished.

We waited all winter and spring for summer and then it just vanished, just like that, with the snap of a finger.

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Close to Home

The difficulties a candidate for District Attorney of Suffolk County is right now having after it was revealed by the Boston Globe that Ricardo Arroyo, a Boston City Councilor was investigated for two incidents of possible sexual assault more than 16 years ago, hits very close to home.

Arroyo claims he does not recall being investigated or visited by police for the two incidents but records reveal he was in fact notified and investigated as the Globe reported.

He says he was never informed.

It would appear his difficulties recalling two serious incidents of possible sexual assault and the investigations which followed could derail his candidacy for district attorney.

It could cloud as well his future as a Boston City Councilor.

Here in Everett, we have a mayor who was revealed to have had a number of claims made against him by at least three women claiming possible sexual assault and harassment, and reported in detail in the Boston Globe in 2014.

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— Eye on Everett —

THE BLUE SUIT

Private conversations about everything Everett between the mayor’s Blue Suit and Josh Resnek

By JOSH RESNEK with THE BLUE SUIT

“I very much wanted to fall in love this summer,” the Blue Suit admitted to me.

We were at the Roulette wheel at Encore Tuesday afternoon when he said that to me.

He was on a winning streak.

When we arrived he bet $200 and won and let it ride. He bet that and let it ride. He bet the $800 and won and let it ride, again. Now he was a up to $1600 – all black calls on the wheel.

Now he switched to red.
He let it ride and won.

In a matter of minutes, the Blue Suit was holding $3200. “Maybe you ought to quit and we should get out of here” I said to him.

“Are you nuts. I’m hot. You never leave the roulette wheel when you’re hot, Josh. What kind of chicken gambler are you anyway, Josh?”

He let the $3200 ride, bet black and he won again.

He let the $6400 ride. He bet red.

Bingo! The Blue Suit won again.

“That’s it for me, Josh. I’m cashing out.” He said to me.

He tossed the roulette guy $200 in chips, gathered the rest and we tried to get away from the table.

“Did you just win $12,000? Huh? Did you just win $12,000 a bunch of Blue Suit groupies sad to him, crowding around him, and most of them asking him for his autograph.

A city worker in the Everett DPW came right up to the Blue Suit and asked him for $500.

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Everett Man Unlikely Hero In Robbery Attempt On Malden Woman

Everett Leader Staff Report

An Everett man rushed to the aid of a Malden woman being robbed by a Peabody man in Malden Monday night.

Jayson Sea, 26, was arraigned in Malden District Court Tuesday and charged with attempted murder among other charges following the incident.

Sea was apparently robbing the Malden woman of her purse when Ryan Dos Santos of Everett, an Instacart delivery driver, witnessed the altercation and interceded.

Dos Santos was bitten and stabbed by the assailant trying to rob the Malden woman.

Dos Santos told authorities he did not regret jumping in to help the woman being robbed.

Boston 25 News reported the story.

The incident occurred Monday afternoon shortly before 2 p.m. on Chestnut Street in Malden.

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Breakfast Fit For A Food Degenerate

By Josh Resnek

I have been having difficulty eating new things with new tastes, with nuanced textures and so forth.

In other words, not much has been satisfying but for a few dinners and lunches which I’ve managed to get down.

I had all but given up on breakfast, that was, until Tuesday morning.

I had bought the day before at Stop and Shop 12 thin slices of Mortadella and imported ham. I ditched buying cheese. I’m done with cheese.

I also bought a bulky roll at Stop and Shop and frankly, their bulky rolls aren’t great, but at least they are satisfyingly light rather than heavy. I hate heavy baked goods of every kind. I prefer French style treats – light, airy, fresh – which basically cannot be found in Greater Boston except at a five star restaurant and I don’t eat at five star restaurants.

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