
Chaiel Schaffel
News Writer at WBZ NewsRadio 1030 - News Audio
Reporter @wbznewsradio in Boston. Sharon, MA native. Pats fan, and fan of trees. @BrandeisU alum. Name pronouncer: 🔊 clear your throat, and then say "Aisle."
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Aug 28, 2024 |
wbznewsradio.iheart.com | Chaiel Schaffel
Grasshopper's new TV screen menu and its old sign at its new location. Photo: Chaiel Schaffel/WBZ NewsRadioBOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Allston's beloved, decades-old vegan eatery, Grasshopper, was presumed dead and buried. A litany of loving obituaries in the local headlines declared it so back in the spring. But that trip beyond the grave turned out to not be so final after all: the 'Hopper is back at a new location, returned after a brief summer hiatus.
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Aug 20, 2024 |
wbznewsradio.iheart.com | Chaiel Schaffel
Photo: Chaiel Schaffel/WBZ NewsRadioNORWOOD, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — More than four years after a fateful June rainstorm set Norwood Hospital tottering down the path to oblivion, the skeleton of a building rises over the center of town. The outside is nearing completion, but easily visible from Washington Street is the inside – or lack thereof, as it is utterly empty, aside from a handful of construction lights.
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Aug 1, 2024 |
wbznewsradio.iheart.com | Chaiel Schaffel
People enjoy the slimmed-down beach at Walden Pond. Photo: Chaiel Schaffel/WBZ NewsRadioCONCORD, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — When the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation said to come see how Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, they probably weren’t asking people to do a partial impersonation. And yet: “We’ll see folks bring really large, almost pop-up tent type things, tables, hammocks, folks try to bring in grills,” said Lisa Little, park supervisor at Walden Pond.
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Mar 21, 2024 |
wbznewsradio.iheart.com | Chaiel Schaffel
An Envy Apple advertisement next to a bus stop in Allston. Photo: Chaiel Schaffel/WBZ NewsRadioBOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — If you’ve driven up I-93 in Boston or taken an MBTA bus, you’ll probably have seen them. Ads for “Envy Apples” popped up this winter all around Greater Boston, adorning massive billboards, signs in T stations, and even pasted over trash cans.
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Feb 10, 2024 |
wbznewsradio.iheart.com | Chaiel Schaffel
The Pangea Shellfish oyster crew flips bags of young oysters to help them breathe.Photo: Chaiel Schaffel/WBZ NewsRadioDUXBURY, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — The frigid water of Duxbury Bay climbs up past the knee on the dark green rubber waders of the oyster flippers. The sand beneath everyone’s feet feels something like Play-Doh, and you get stuck if you stay in one spot too long. But the crew out here, with the Boston-based Pangea Shellfish Company, doesn’t have time to stand still.
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