The Globe reports the state will use $30 million in federal stimulus funds - plus another $30 million that's been sitting in a Big Dig account for years - to erect a Colossus-size statue of Kraft bestriding Boston Harbor build long promised footbridges across and near the mouth of the Charles River, by the Zakim Bridge.

The Globe doesn't say if any of that money will go toward the skate park that state planners have been promising is about a year away for roughly 10 years now.

Matthew I. watched the sun go down over the Charles - and a heron - along the Esplanade the other day.

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Dan Tobin was facing the Citgo sign on the way home from Cambridge this evening:

... It's a landmark I invariably associate with the Red Sox and tonight I realized that, no matter how the season ended up - with us as champions or the hated Yankees taking the crown - this is the time of year when baseball is in hibernation. It won't be long before being outside itself is a chore and means braving the nasty winter that comprises half the Boston year. It made me a little sad facing up to this reality. But it also made me thankful to know that one day the Sox will come back, the cold weather will lift, and the city will become a beautiful place once again.

Los Angelenos not used to 50-degree temperatures making a movie:

Chris Devers watched the moviemakers near between Watertown and Brighton today as they filmed some faux rowers for the movie about Facebook.

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Paul Keleher watched the Head of the Charles Regatta this morning, including these alumni of Belmont Hill. He reports: "The sun was out on Saturday morning, a nice surprise."

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William Hurley, 24, of Quincy disappeared after last Thursday's game. Police recovered his body from the Charles near the Nashua Street jail around 2:30 a.m. today.

Channel 4 reports two Boston police boats searched the Charles River near Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital today, looking for William Hurley, a Quincy man who disappeared after last Thursday's Bruins's game.

Just a dad carrying a tuckered daughter after some fun along the Charles near Harvard Square yesterday, as captured by Kate Mitchell.

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Saul Blumenthal captured the particularly vivid sunset over the Charles on Monday evening.

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But that's what somebody did early this morning - and after he was fished out of the Charles, he was taken away in the custody of the State Police, Boston_Fireman tweets.