Emily Weisberg shows us the annual flag plantings on the Common by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund.
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By adamg - 4/26/15 - 5:46 pm
Dan Santry snapped Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plane after it had landed at Logan. Abe starts a three-day US tour with dinner tonight at John and Teresa's place at Louisburg Square. His itinerary also includes a speech at the Kennedy School across the river and a trip down to DC for a speech before Congress.
By adamg - 4/24/15 - 5:14 pm
Rachel Anne Miller watched as boaters rushed to a capsized sailboat on the Charles this afternoon and helped right it.
By adamg - 4/16/15 - 4:51 pm
Interaction with a trooper at Charles Circle on Tuesday.
Via Boston Reddit.
By adamg - 4/10/15 - 11:10 am
UPDATE: Delvin Dixon, 40, of Charlestown, was arraigned on a charge of vandalism this afternoon. He was released on personal recognizance, but ordered to stay away from the Common until his case is resolved, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.
Somebody with a less than reverential view towards the past - not to mention Matthew Broderick - snapped off Robert Gould Shaw's sword from the 54th Massachusetts memorial across from the State House this morning.
By adamg - 4/7/15 - 10:13 am
Given the sort of thing that's been happening even here in our quiet little cubbie of the universe, you might be interested in a Ford Hall Forum discussion next week on Vicious Anonymity.
By adamg - 4/5/15 - 10:45 pm
617 Images photographed Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings in Easter bonnets today.
By adamg - 3/27/15 - 1:35 pm
JC Considine spotted workers installing the carousel by the Frog Pond on the Common today.
By adamg - 3/27/15 - 10:12 am
State officials report contractors will begin prepping the Longfellow Bridge on Saturday to remove the two remaining towers as part of the overall bridge reconstruction project.
Don't worry, seasoning fans: The state says, as with the other two towers - and unlike that decorative railing a few years back - the towers will be put into storage so they can be replaced once the bulk of the repairs to the bridge and the realignment of the traffic/bicycle/pedestrian lanes is finished.
By adamg - 3/14/15 - 5:56 pm
A manhole fire around 5:30 p.m. at Mt. Vernon and Walnut streets means a shutdown of the intersection for about 90 minutes as firefighters douse the flames and Eversource repairs the damage.
By adamg - 3/13/15 - 9:11 pm
The Friends of the Public Garden board has a simple message for Boston 2024: Get offa their lawns.
The park advocacy group, which also looks after the Common, says it's against Boston 2024's proposals to build a 16,000-seat beach-volleyball stadium on the Common and to use Charles Street and part of the Public Garden for a marathon and bicycle races.
By adamg - 3/11/15 - 2:29 pm
The crash scene this afternoon - the Coca-Cola truck was the one involved.
Updated with information from the DA's office.
A woman apparently walking against the light was struck and killed by a tractor trailer in Charles Circle this afternoon.
Witnesses reported that the woman, 68, was crossing Cambridge Street towards the Liberty Hotel when hit around 1:30 p.m., according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which adds:
Emergency medical technicians from an ambulance company were in the immediate area and stopped to assist. The woman was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital a short distance away, where she died of her injuries.
By adamg - 3/10/15 - 7:42 am
617 Images shows us the Make Way for Ducklings ducks are ready for St. Patrick's Day.
By adamg - 3/8/15 - 10:44 pm
JB Parrett enjoyed the sunset over the Longfellow, the Charles and Kendall Square this evening.
By adamg - 3/8/15 - 11:18 am
K.A. ran across an air conditioner being used as a space saver on Beacon Hill this morning, wonders whether the owner just gave up on the idea of it ever getting warm enough again to need it for its original purpose.
Katia, meanwhile, discovered a microwave slowly emerging on the sidewalk as a Beacon Hill glacier retreats:
By adamg - 3/4/15 - 11:21 am
Looks like last night's snow/sleet/rain was the last straw for Boston buildings. We've had a partial roof collapse on Columbia Point and a complete building collapse in Readville. And now this: Cars are being flattened by killer death ice. Kristin MacDougall forwarded this photo of a car flattened like a pancake by snow that fell off a building on 3rd Avenue in the Charlestown Navy Yard.
By adamg - 2/27/15 - 12:14 pm
Boston's DPW announced today it's holding off on the annual re-start of street sweeping until after "streets are cleared to the curb and gutters are free of ice and snow."
Fans of cleaner streets in the North End, the South End and Beacon Hill, where street sweeping normally starts in March, will have to wait for "a thaw and large scale melting," the department said, adding that also means daytime parking restrictions will not apply there, either. The DPW says it will send out notices when the streets are fit to sweep
By adamg - 2/24/15 - 3:55 pm
Now that's a book we'd read. Lynne watched a firefighter dealing with an icicle on Beacon Street on Beacon Hill today before it fell on somebody's head.
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