Brooks Payne visited the field of flags planted in front of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial on the Common to commemorate the more than 37,000 Massachusetts service members who have given their lives since the Revolution.
Long may they wave: Read more.
Robert Adams admired Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings dressed for Vshyvanka Day, an annual celebration of Ukraine's unique embroidered clothing.
The Beacon Hill Times reports on initial proposals for a "West End Green Corridor" to connect the Rose Kennedy Greenway with the Esplanade. One proposal: A sort of mini-High Line path 15 feet up.
Where the trash can used to be.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about the disappearance of a trash receptacle at Myrtle and Anderson streets on Beacon Hill: Read more.
The Boston Sun reports the public restrooms have returned to Boston Common.
A Chelsea man admitted last week he forced a woman to accompany him from Bromfield Street downtown all the way to the Public Garden, where he raped her, in November, 2020.
Read more.
The owner of the former Beacon Hill Pub on Charles Street is asking a judge to throw out a "neighbor agreement" that currently mandates that any bar there close by midnight, now that Boston has a nightlife czar charged with increasing late-night opportunities for denizens thirsty for adult beverages. Read more.
Tyre Extinguishers, a British group whose preferred method of fighting climate change is to deflate the tires of large vehicles, says it let the air out of the tires of 43 vehicles on Beacon Hill last night. Read more.
The Huntington News walks among the LPs at Music Research Library, the first record store to open on Beacon Hill in four decades, after moving up from Providence.
Downtown Boston and Beacon Hill reflected on the placid, largely boat-free, Charles River Basin around 11 a.m. today.
Matt Damon and Casey Affleck and crews have taken over Bova's in the North End to film scenes from a movie in which they play thieves whose robbery attempt goes awry. Read more.
Update: Rose McNugget found, OK.
A dog walker walking a dog in the area of Mt. Vernon and Walnut streets on Beacon Street had the dog stolen today by two guys who got away in a blue Civic. Rose is 9 years old and weighs 11 lbs.
Robert Adams captured Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings dressed in their St. Patrick's finest today.
A fed-up citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation all over Beacon Hill: Read more.
The Beacon Hill Times reports the opening of Music Research Library, which sells mainly vinyl records, on Joy Street this month. It moved up here from Providence.
Aline Kaplan gives us an online tour of the murals inside the State House.
The owner of 151 Charles St. on Beacon Hill yesterday sued the owner of the neighboring 149 Charles St., for what it says is illegal digging in that building's basement, which it claims removed some supports for its building, forcing it to evacuate the tenants who had not already moved after their floors started warping, their walls started cracking and doors and windows stopped closing all the way. Read more.
Dan snapped the hawk that's been using a fifth-floor railing at the Boston Athenaeum on Beacon Street as an observation post.
A man with a criminal record dating to 1990 was ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bail at his arraignment on a charge that he robbed the TD Bank branch at 250 Cambridge St. on Beacon Hill on Tuesday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The driver of a box truck - and his passenger - were a bit luckier on Storrow Drive this morning than the driver of an 18-wheeler in Westborough, averting a storrowing inbound by maybe a couple feet, as KWAPT, who was not happy to get stuck in the resulting jam, shows us: Read more.
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