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By adamg - 2/20/21 - 10:36 am
Mark Smith took in the beautiful winter morning and a cross-country skier also enjoying the day, at the George Wright Golf Course on the Hyde Park/Roslindale line.
By adamg - 2/9/21 - 9:04 am
Matthew Ireland snapped the Pru through the snow-frosted trees of the Southwest Corridor Park at Holyoke Street after the snow stopped on Sunday.
By adamg - 2/8/21 - 9:12 pm
BPS announced it's going fully remote on Tuesday due to the impending snow, so students need to log in - but their sessions will end 2.5 hours early.
By adamg - 2/8/21 - 2:15 pm
Max Grennell captured a New England snowman (who looks like he wanted to be a snowbernie, but forgot his mittens) on Evans Way in the Fenway today.
By adamg - 2/2/21 - 2:50 pm
Erinn Larson took a soggy walk along Long Wharf today, taking in the usual flooding both directly along the harbor and further back at the Chart House. Read more.
By adamg - 2/2/21 - 8:25 am
That means Bostonians can save their parking spaces until noon on Thursday (except in the South End, where space saving isn't allowed). It also means people who parked in lots or garages with snow discounts have to get them out by 2 p.m. today before the regular rates kick in again.
By adamg - 2/1/21 - 9:19 pm
BOSRocks forwards this screen capture of Harvey Leonard and some snow totals tonight. Why, that's nearly 26 on the Pete Bouchard meter.
By adamg - 2/1/21 - 5:46 pm
Lisa Green visited Long Wharf a half hour before high tide today, reports she didn't stick around to see high tide: Read more.
By adamg - 2/1/21 - 10:20 am
Mary Ellen, who normally focuses on birds, turned her lens this morning on the road to the Boston Public Works salt shed at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, where truck drivers lined up to get their allotment of snow-fighting crystals.
By adamg - 1/31/21 - 7:29 pm
The GOES-16 satellite took this photo around 5 p.m. of the storm coming across Indianapolis and Ohio that will move over the Atlantic and then swing north, become a nor'easter and dump a lot of snow on us starting mid-day tomorrow.
By adamg - 1/31/21 - 6:22 pm
Most immediately, that means no parking on designated main roads - towing begins promptly at noon, so look for free or low-cost parking. BPS kids who normally would go to school will instead have to fire up the Zoom screens - and all students will be released from classes 2 1/2 hours early. BPS meal sites will be open on Monday, but BYCF meal sites will not. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/21 - 4:20 pm
On Jan. 10, 1957, a news photographer captured Dr. Paul Dudley White, then 70, shoveling snow along what looks to be Storrow Drive, where, later, a 17-mile bike and pedestrian path would be named in his honor. Read more.
By adamg - 1/30/21 - 10:39 am
Travel New England provides some visible proof of what can happen if you leave a bottle of soda (in this case, IBC Cream Soda) in your car trunk overnight on one of the coldest days in years.
By adamg - 1/27/21 - 10:02 am
A great blue heron took flight over the Charles River near Millennium Park this morning, and Mary Ellen was there to watch it.
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