The annual gift of an evergreen Christmas tree from Nova Scotia will arrive by police escort at Boston Common on Tuesday, Nov. 21. This year commemorates 100 years of friendship between Nova Scotia and the people of Boston after our…
Author: The Boston Sun Staff
Appleton Pedestrian Bridge Comes Closer to Completion
By Dan Murphy Construction is one step closer to completion on the $12.5-million Frances “Fanny” Appleton Pedestrian Bridge with the recent installation of a soaring arch over Storrow Drive. “The installation of the elegant arch over Storrow Drive marks an…
City Council Candidates Gear Up for the Nov 7 Election
By Beth Treffeisen With less than a week away from the City of Boston election, candidates are gearing up to make last minute efforts to sway voters to vote for them at the polls. In Boston, there are a number…
Police Briefs 11-02-2017
D-4 POLICE NEWS Bad sample On Monday, Oct. 23, at around 10:55 a.m., a Boston University Medical Center special State Police officer assigned to the Mountain Bike Unit was patrolling the exterior of the Dowling Building at 771 Albany St.…
Biscuits and the Political Graveyard
By Phineas J. Stone The tide comes in twice a day in Boston, and goes out twice a day as well. In and out, in and out…very predictably – in fact to the minute if you care to consult the…
Be Sure to Vote Tuesday
Tuesday, Nov. 7, marks municipal Election Day in cities and towns across Massachusetts. Although the turmoil and generally crazy state of affairs on the national level has distracted all of us from what is going on in our own backyards,…
Annual Pumpkin Float in the Common
Nore Douglas (3) and Adrian Rogers (3) admiring carved pumpkins while aglow in their Star Wars light sabers during the Fourth annual Pumpkin Float on Boston Common’s Frog Pond. The annual event that precedes Halloween took place on Friday, Oct.…
Happy Birthday, Mel King
Once fierce rivals in the 1980s for the office of mayor of Boston, Mel “Hugs” King gets a hug from former Mayor Ray Flynn while both of their families look on. The moment came during a ceremony at the McKinley…
J.J. Foley’s Café Gets No Violation after Late Night Incident
By Beth Treffeisen J.J. Foley’s Café at 111-123 Berkeley St. in the South End was brought before Boston’s Licensing Board for violations including employee on patron (chocking, punching and kicking), failure to call the police, and serving a minor, at…
Fenway Memory Project Works to Document an Oral History of Neighborhood
By Beth Treffeisen The Fenway neighborhood, like most of Boston, is filled with history. But beyond the historic games that have taken place at Fenway Park, there is a lot that has happened in this transient neighborhood that many call…