Ron Newman attended the pro-democracy protest downtown today.
Erica Fletcher also participated in the Stop the Coup protest. Read more.
By adamg - 1/20/25 - 6:57 pm
Stephen C. Bedell captured the scene at the Embrace on the Common on the most appropriate of days.
By adamg - 12/31/24 - 11:17 pm
Our own Ron Newman took in the early First Night fireworks, over the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common, this evening.
By adamg - 12/11/24 - 12:09 pm
The city announced today that Joanne Chang's Flour has won a lease to re-open the former Earl of Sandwich kiosk on Boston Common this coming spring. Read more.
By adamg - 11/26/24 - 5:39 pm
At a hearing on public-safety issues downtown and around Boston Common today, Elizabeth Vizza had a request for suburbanite do-gooders who keep coming to the Common to feed the homeless: Stop! Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/24 - 8:56 pm
A couple hundred men, mostly Catholic, mostly from out of town, marched from the Packards Corner Planned Parenthood to the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common today to try to impose their will on a state where abortion remains a right and part of women's health care.
Read more.
By adamg - 11/16/24 - 6:21 pm
Among the people taking one of those Freedom Trail tours on the Common today was a woman with a terrier, a terrier wearing a tricorn hat.
By adamg - 11/13/24 - 5:16 pm
A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.
By adamg - 10/31/24 - 10:27 pm
Boston firefighters responded to the Common shortly after 2:20 p.m. for a flaming hot-dog stand on the main path near the baseball field. Firefighters quickly doused the fire.
No reports of injuries, no tallies of burnt wieners.
By adamg - 10/24/24 - 12:02 pm
The City Council yesterday approved holding a hearing at which to consider ways to combat what some said was drug use and related violence that are so bad they are making some residents think of moving away and of threatening Boston's tourism industry. Read more.
By adamg - 10/22/24 - 4:19 pm
In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
By adamg - 9/18/24 - 9:45 am
Boston Police report arresting a man who robbed the Brookline Bank branch at 33 State St. shortly after noon yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 9/8/24 - 10:14 am
An outraged resident filed a 311 complaint yesterday about the cruel activity on the Common yesterday: Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/24 - 5:09 pm
For the past couple of days, at-large Councilor Henry Santana has been listing interesting and fun stuff to do in Downtown Crossing and across Tremont on Boston Common. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 1:20 pm
After a man was stabbed in Downtown Crossing yesterday, City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) called on the city to end all organized events on the Common: Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 10:49 am
Somebody who apparently does not live in a Boston neighborhood in which turkeys normally flock has filed a 311 complaint about the "loose" turkey that's been hanging out on the Common - a couple days after somebody filed a 311 complaint about a turkey in the Public Garden (maybe the same turkey, if it's learned how to cross Charles).
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