On Memorial Day, 1886, Civil War veterans from Boston and New York gathered at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common. Read more.
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By adamg - 5/26/21 - 9:39 am
WBZ reports that volunteers will plant some 37,000 flags on the Common, to commemorate all of the Massachusetts residents who have died in wars starting with the Revolution. Last year's annual display was called off due to Covid-19 concerns, although volunteers did place 1,000 "socially distanced" flags at the last minute.
By adamg - 5/26/21 - 9:23 am
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday dismissed a California man's suit against the Massachusetts Army National Guard for the hearing he lost while walking on the Common just as Guard howitzers erupted in honor of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company's annual June command change in 2015. Read more.
By adamg - 5/19/21 - 10:05 am
An outraged citizen files a 311 complaint about somebody on Pinckney Street on Beacon Hill who added a mail slot and a bootscraper, without the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission's required approval. Read more.
By adamg - 5/8/21 - 10:38 am
A Swan Boat around 1900. See it larger.
WBUR talks to folks in the Public Garden about their return.
Photo of a Swan Boat taken between 1900 and 1906. In the Library of Congress collection.
By adamg - 5/5/21 - 1:53 pm
A company that already offers delivery of both traditional boards of meats and cheeses and 21st-century charcuterie cones hopes to put down some brick-and-mortar roots soon at 83 Charles St., near Pinckney Street. Read more.
By adamg - 5/4/21 - 9:21 pm
A calendar-conscious citizen filed a 311 complaint that the frog that welcomes kids to the Tadpole Playground on the Common is still dressed like Santa:
Duckling parade is this week but the frog is still in Santa clothes at the tadpole playground.
By adamg - 4/26/21 - 9:15 am
Today is the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, which showered nearby Belarus with fallout. On Saturday, a group of Boston-area resident of Belarusian descent marked the anniversary - which and to call for an international probe of conditions at a nuclear plant in Ostrovets in Belarus
By adamg - 2/24/21 - 3:00 pm
Update: Approval granted.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owners of Lala Rokh, which closed in 2018, sell their 97 Mt. Vernon St. location and its liquor license to Kristin Jenkins, an antiques dealer who hopes to open a "neighborhood American bistro." Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/21 - 9:28 pm
WHDH reports on Boston Barber Co. barber Steve Silva's fall last week. A friend has organized a GoFundMe page.
By adamg - 2/4/21 - 12:40 pm
The Zoning Board of Appeal this week granted the owners of the Beacon Hill Pub on Charles Street for a rear addition that will let them add three new apartments to the six that already sit in the building. Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/21 - 9:23 am
The Beacon Hill Times reports that a survey of neighborhood gas lamps by Northeastern students on behalf of the Beacon Hill Civic Association found that 127 of the neighborhood's 1,028 gas lamps don't work at all and that another 413 are damaged.
By adamg - 1/20/21 - 2:13 pm
Shortly before 1 p.m., Sara Mak and a companion surveyed the scene at the State House (then reconnoitered the surrounding area).
Compare to the situation on Sunday, when Boston Police shut down the streets around the State House.
By adamg - 1/17/21 - 1:39 pm
Blocked road near the State House. Photo by Joseph A. Rinaldi.
Update: Roads re-opened, for now, around 3 p.m.
Boston Police announce that several streets in front of or near the State House are being shut, in advance of Wednesday's inauguration in Washington, because of potential threats from fascists. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/21 - 2:17 pm
A beaten-down citizen files a 311 request:
Given that this is the year of the pandemic and it will be a rather long and dark winter, could the Holiday lights on the Boston Common remain on until March first?
By adamg - 12/29/20 - 12:09 pm
The Washington Post goes to the archives and finds old articles in both the Herald and the Beacon Hill Times that prove Alec Baldwin's wife grew up on Beacon Hill, Pinckney Street, to be exact, so, she can call herself a Bostonian and we were wrong to trust the Daily Mail, as one commenter cautioned us yesterday (she only went to school in Weston). Also, we can now return to never thinking/talking about her again.
By adamg - 12/25/20 - 9:28 pm
From Medford to Storrow Drive on just rims. Photo by Live Boston.
State Police credit the lack of traffic early this morning for the lack of any crashes due to a Reading man speeding down I-93 southbound on the northbound side from Wilmington all the way to Leverett Circle, where he got on Storrow Drive the wrong way before finally getting cornered in a parking lot near Mass. General. Read more.
By adamg - 12/17/20 - 9:46 am
The Boston Athenaeum has shows us the Brewer Fountain and State House in a photo taken from the Common after a storm - in 1898.
By adamg - 11/26/20 - 2:17 pm
BWSC crews are on scene at Neponset Circle to fix a burst water main that has resulted in discolored water in Dorchester and at Mt. Vernon and Hancock streets on Beacon Hill for a water-main break that the commission says has not affected service there.
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