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?
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By adamg - 1/10/21 - 2:17 pm
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By adamg - 11/20/20 - 12:12 pm
The mayor's office released this photo of our annual gift tree from Nova Scotia safely arriving on Boston Common this morning. It'll officially be lit up on Dec. 3, come hell, high water or tree pattern baldness. Read more.
By adamg - 11/17/20 - 10:16 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint to suggest chaining down the horses on the Boston Common carousel, because people are removing them.
By adamg - 10/22/20 - 2:36 pm
Boston is asking a federal judge to order a Lowell guy who claims a North Adams address to reimburse it for the legal costs of rebutting his "frivolous" lawsuit over comments Mayor Walsh made before white supremacists held a tiny little protest on the Common while surrounded by tens of thousands of protesters. Read more.
By adamg - 10/19/20 - 4:31 pm
A North Adams man who claims he lost his job because of Marty Walsh's statements urging rightwingers not hold a rally on the Common days after other rightwingers went on a violent rampage in Charlottesville, VA in 2017 had his $100-million libel case thrown out in state court. Now he's trying again in federal court. Read more.
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By adamg - 9/14/20 - 10:21 am
Two miltary Black Hawk helicopters were set to fly along the Marathon route starting at 10 a.m. in Hopkinton this morning. Local news copters circled the Common awaiting the military copters.
By adamg - 8/9/20 - 5:22 pm
The Mayor's Mural Crew and the Office of New Urban Mechanics teamed up to create a series of leafy areas around the Parkman Bandstand for people to enjoy the outdoors while ensuring they're socially distant.
By adamg - 5/25/20 - 10:13 am
WBZ reports volunteers worked overnight to place 1,000 "socially distant" flags on Boston Common to remember Massachusetts residents who died in the service of their country. Earlier plans to place the traditional 37,000 flag were called off due to Covid-19 concerns.
By adamg - 4/7/20 - 4:58 pm
Update: Three arrested.
Shortly before 4:30 p.m. Stanley Forman photographed the area around the Soldiers and Sailors Monument taped off.
Around 4:30 p.m., Suffolk University alerted the few students still living at 150 Tremont St. "Report of shots fired in the Boston Common. If you are a resident of 150 Tremont St. Please shelter in place until further notice."
By adamg - 3/21/20 - 10:47 pm
So a videographer walked through the Common, the Public Garden and downtown today.
By adamg - 1/17/20 - 9:55 am
New England Folklore recounts the story of the two elms that flank the Robert Gould Shaw memorial at Beacon and Park streets - planted by John Hancock himself before the Revolution. Turns out the memorial sits on a vault designed to protect the roots of the trees.
By adamg - 12/31/19 - 9:48 pm
Louise Miller watched the family fireworks over Boston Common at 7 p.m.
By adamg - 12/8/19 - 12:49 pm
Msmariamad took in the Nova Scotia Christmas tree on the Common.
Copyright Msmariamad. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 11/26/19 - 10:21 pm
A roving UHub photographer stopped to take in the sunset this evening on Beacon Street along the Common.
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